Victoria Mansion seeks a skilled preservation woodworker to plan and teach a two-week workshop in April 2025 focused on maintaining and preserving exterior woodwork on older and historic buildings. The class will run for ten eight-hour days and will be limited to five students to ensure significant personalized attention. The course will take place at [...]
News Center Maine's Don Carrigan paid Victoria Mansion a visit recently, featuring our brownstone restoration, interior paint conservation, and Unwilling Architects research initiative on "207" on November 7th, 2024. Read Don's article here, and check out the segment in the video below: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIpNYz3avAQ
Dear friends, If you have driven by Victoria Mansion recently, you know there are big things afoot. In fact, the scaffolding rising on the front lawn only hints at the scale of the work going on. Inside and outside, we are gearing up for a series of transformational restoration projects aimed at preserving this National Historic Landmark [...]
Our September 2024 Newsletter is now live! Click the link to read about exciting Front Bay restoration news, a guest column from our 2024 summer intern, and more.
Our August 2024 newsletters are now live! In our early August newsletter, read about the exciting conservation and restoration projects that have been going on throughout summer 2024, including Stair Hall conservation, and brownstone bay restoration plans. In our August-September newsletter, read about our visit from Maine State Senator Jill Duson, as well as [...]
Our June 2024 Newsletter is now live! Click the link to read about our upcoming brownstone Reception Room Bay restoration, summer events, and more.
In early April 2024, Victoria Mansion hosted the first in a series of paid preservation trades training, taught by preservationist John Leeke, author of Save America's Windows. The purpose of this training program, focused on window restoration, is to train practicing tradespeople in the special knowledge required to preserve older and historic wood windows. More information [...]
Our April 2024 newsletter is live! Follow the link to read about our Celebration of National Textiles Day, updates about the Preservation Trades Workshop, and a preview of 2024 events.
Victoria Mansion sends out a monthly newsletter to our members and subscribers, with updates on conservation and restoration projects, educational programs, research initiatives, upcoming events, and more. Read on at the links below to catch up on the past year of newsletters, and subscribe any time to stay up to date on Mansion projects! [...]
After a thorough dry-cleaning of the room's walls and ceiling, (as much of the painted decoration is water-based), the next phase of the major conservation project in the Mansion's Parlor looms near: the application of a protective barrier varnish on the original 1860's paint to protect and preserve it for decades to come. Once this [...]
