The Portland Museum is a neighborhood history and art museum in Louisville, Kentucky . It details the history of the Portland neighborhood both as an independent town in the early 1800s and after Portland's amalgamation into Louisville after the construction of the Louisville and Portland Canal .
5-541: Portland Museum may refer to: Portland Museum (Louisville) , Louisville, Kentucky, USA Portland Museum, Dorset , England (on the Isle of Portland) Portland Museum of Art , Maine, USA Portland Art Museum , Oregon, USA Portland Children's Museum , Oregon, USA Portland Gallery , London, England 'The Portland Museum', collection of Margaret Cavendish-Harley , Duchess of Portland, now dissolved Topics referred to by
10-560: Is also working to restore the 1812 Squire Earick House . The museum was originally founded by seven teachers from the old Roosevelt Elementary School with an initial grant the National Endowment for the Humanities . The collection originally consisted of scrapbooks from various local families but has now since been expanded since then to include various artifacts, paintings and other memorabilia from local residents. Upon
15-470: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Portland Museum (Louisville) The museum consists of three buildings: Beech Grove, a 19th-century Italianate mansion, the former Portland Bridge Baptist Mission Building, connected at Beech Grove's north side, and the AHOY House, a renovated Victorian property adjacent to the museum. The museum
20-426: The same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Portland Museum . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Portland_Museum&oldid=587783926 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
25-508: The school's closing in 1980, the museum was moved to the Brown School before settling into its current facility in 1983. The museum contains exhibits on famous residents of Portland, including an exhibit of paintings by John James Audubon . In 2014, the museum opened a permanent collection consisting of memorabilia donated by former football star Paul Hornung . The museum also features a book printing room for students. As part of
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