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21-817: Shurtleff is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Arthur Shurtleff (1870–1957), American urban planner Bert Shurtleff (1897–1967), National Football League player in the 1920s Edward D. Shurtleff (1863–1936), American jurist and politician Mark Shurtleff (born 1957), former attorney general of Utah Michael Shurtleff (1920–2007), actor and casting director Nathaniel B. Shurtleff (1810–1874), politician and 20th mayor of Boston, Massachusetts Roswell Morse Shurtleff (1838-1915), American painter and illustrator William Lewis Shurtleff (1864–1954), attorney for Harry Kendall Thaw William Shurtleff (born 1941), American writer about soy foods See also [ edit ] Shurtleff College ,

42-694: A college in Alton, Illinois [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with the surname Shurtleff . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link by adding the person's given name (s) to the link. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Shurtleff&oldid=1210891087 " Categories : Surnames English-language surnames Hidden categories: All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from December 2022 Articles with short description Short description

63-436: A horseshoe around a common, but his son George B. proposed creating a live village with operating shops and a source of water power. Within a week of the meeting, the museum purchased David Wight's farm and soon after hired Malcolm Watkins as the first curator of the museum, which they called Quinnebaug Village in honor of the river. Architect Arthur Shurcliff was called in to help lay out a suitable country landscape. By 1941,

84-515: A significant contribution to the preservation of history through the arts. Recipients have included Norm Abram , Cokie Roberts , John Williams , Tom Brokaw , Sam Waterston , Doris Kearns Goodwin , and Laura Linney . In July 2017, Old Sturbridge Village CEO Jim Donohue, who had previously founded the first charter school in Rhode Island, announced the opening of Old Sturbridge Academy Charter School, which would open in modular classrooms on

105-406: A working farm. Third-person costumed interpreters demonstrate and interpret 19th-century arts, crafts, and agricultural work. The museum is popular among tourists and for educational field trips. In the early 19th century, the land on which Old Sturbridge Village stands was a farm owned by David Wight which included a sawmill, a gristmill, and a millpond. The millpond was dug in 1795 and still powers

126-560: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Arthur Shurtleff Arthur Asahel Shurtleff was born in Boston, Massachusetts , studied engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1889–1894), and upon the advice of Charles Eliot and Frederick Law Olmsted , enrolled at Harvard University for studies in art history, surveying, horticulture and design. After his graduation in 1896, he joined

147-421: Is frequently host to a naturalization ceremony on the fourth of July. In 2018, 152 new United States citizens were naturalized at Old Sturbridge Village. The Village is a popular wedding location. Old Sturbridge Village has been used as a set in many historical movies, TV shows, and documentaries, including Hawaii (1966) starring Julie Andrews , Reading Rainbow (1984), Glory (1989), Slavery and

168-991: The Brookview-Irvington Park , Lafayette Place , and Wildwood Park communities in Fort Wayne , Indiana ; and the Richard Crane estate at Ipswich, Massachusetts . His wife, Margaret Homer Shurcliff (née Nichols), was the sister of Rose Standish Nichols and great, great, great-granddaughter of Thomas Johnson . They married in 1905. They had six children: Sidney Nichols Shurcliff (1906–1981), who later joined his father's business, Sarah Parsons Shurcliff (died 2001, married Franz J. Ingelfinger ), physicist William Shurcliff (1909–2006), inventor John Perkins Shurcliff (1911–1993), civic activist Elizabeth Homer Shurcliff (1913–2007) and economist Alice Warburton Shurcliff (1915–2000). Cushing, Elizabeth Hope. Arthur A. Shurcliff: Design, Preservation, and

189-834: The North End , and the John Harvard Mall in Charlestown , both located along the Freedom Trail . Among numerous private commissions are included Carter's Grove and Wilton House Museum in Virginia, Greatwood Gardens at Goddard College, Plainfield, Vermont; Fuller Gardens in North Hampton, New Hampshire; the Wells brothers' estates at Sturbridge, Massachusetts (creators and funders of Old Sturbridge Village);

210-670: The Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot landscape architecture firm in Brookline . In 1899, he aided Frederick Law Olmsted Jr. in founding America's first four-year landscape architecture school at Harvard University . He set up his own Boston practice in 1904. The following year, 1905, he married Margaret Homer Nichols, with whom he had six children. An early member of the American Society of Landscape Architects he later served two terms as its president (1928–1932). In 1909 he submitted to

231-773: The Creation of the Colonial Williamsburg Landscape . 2014. Amherst, MA: Library of American Landscape History and University of Massachusetts Press. Old Sturbridge Village Old Sturbridge Village is a living museum located in Sturbridge , Massachusetts , which recreates life in rural New England during the 1790s through 1830s. It is the largest living museum in New England, covering more than 200 acres (81 hectares). The Village includes 59 antique buildings, three water-powered mills, and

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252-856: The Fitch House, the Miner Grant Store, and the Richardson House (now the Parsonage) were on the common and the Gristmill was in operation. After a pause for World War II, George B.'s wife Ruth became acting director of the Village. They changed its name to Old Sturbridge Village and opened it on June 8, 1946. Attendance climbed, mostly through word of mouth. In a 1950 article in The Saturday Evening Post ,

273-521: The Making of America (2005), and ‘’ Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman ’’ (2009). Filmmaker Ken Burns 's Hampshire College undergraduate thesis was an educational film made at Old Sturbridge Village called Working in Rural New England . Burns remains a patron and supporter of the museum. Old Sturbridge Village now awards a yearly "Ken Burns Lifetime Achievement Award" to individuals who have made

294-662: The Massachusetts Metropolitan Improvements Commission a set of proposed plans for road improvements throughout the Boston metropolitan region. He proposed radial and circumferential connecting roadways to improve traffic, far ahead of its time. In 1930, he changed his last name to Shurcliff in order, he said, to conform to the "ancient spelling of the family name". In addition to the gardens, landscapes, and town planning of Colonial Williamsburg, his better known public works include

315-508: The Village, stranding 15 staff members. The Freeman Farmhouse was flooded and the covered bridge was swept off its foundation. Helicopters kept staff members supplied for three days until the waters receded. The damage was estimated to be $ 250,000 in 1955, but Village employees managed to re-open the Village in just nine days. Old Sturbridge Village has more than 40 structures, including restored buildings purchased and relocated from around New England, as well as some authentic reconstructions, and

336-502: The early 1930s, AB had more than 45 rooms full of antiques in his Southbridge home. The Wells family and others formed the Wells Historical Museum in 1935, gave it title to the various collections, and charged it with the care and exhibition of the artifacts. In July 1936, the museum's trustees met to determine how the collections would best be presented to the public. AB wanted to create a small cluster of buildings in

357-724: The entire village is divided into three main sections. The Center Village represents the center of town, with the town green as its focal point. Countryside consists of outlying farms and shops. The Mill Neighborhood features various commercial structures that rely upon the millpond for their power. The Center Village contains: The Countryside section contains: Mill Neighborhood features: Old Sturbridge Village has several buildings devoted to displaying their assorted collections of early American antiques. The Village hosts history- and seasonal-themed events such as homeschool days, kids' summer camps, Christmas by Candlelight, Fourth of July, Halloween, and Thanksgiving. Old Sturbridge Village

378-839: The laying out of Old Sturbridge Village , the Charles River Esplanade, the redesign of Frederick Law Olmsted's Back Bay Fens and the zoological park at Franklin Park, all three in Boston. He served as a consultant to the Boston Parks Department, the Metropolitan District Commission and the Metropolitan Planning Board. More Boston works include the Paul Revere Mall (also called The Prado) in

399-664: The logging was complete, they dug the pond with a team of oxen and a scoop. This entire process took two and a half years. George Washington Wells started a small spectacle shop in Southbridge, Massachusetts , in the 1840s which became the American Optical Company . His sons Channing, Albert (called "AB"), and Cheney followed him into the business, which continued to expand. In 1926, AB began to shop for antiques, and this influenced Cheney to collect early American timepieces and Channing to collect fine furniture. By

420-477: The mills today. In 1795, Wight's son went to Boston to conduct some business on behalf of his father. While in Boston, he bought tickets to the Harvard Lottery which was a fund-raising technique for Harvard College. He won $ 5,000 (equivalent to $ 97,404 in today's dollars). He gave his father money to pay off the mortgage on his farm and logged the timber of the cedar swamp which today is the millpond. After

441-997: The village was featured as "The Town That Wants to be Out of Date". By 1955, it acquired the Meetinghouse from the Fiskdale neighborhood of Sturbridge, the Salem Towne House from Charlton, Massachusetts , the Fenno House, the Friends Meetinghouse, the Pliny Freeman House, the Printing Office, and the District School. On August 18, 1955, gale-force winds and a torrential downpour from Hurricane Diane created flood waters that broke dams in surrounding towns and flooded

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