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:
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The very first delivery of cargo by air to Portland, Maine in July of 1926 included some unexpected freight: a shipment of high-end dresses from New York City for the J.R. Libby Department Store. Though the store’s founder and namesake– and second owner of the Mansion– J.R. Libby…
As part of a larger project to move and rehouse portions of the Mansion’s archives, Director of Education Stacia Hanscom recently happened upon an article written around 1967 by Maine Historian and long-time friend and supporter of the Mansion, Earle Shettleworth Jr. The short article documents the reminiscence…
Most visitors to the Mansion immediately recognize all the room’s figures as “cherubs”- those angelic, winged and usually haloed unearthly abettors to God. Though we know these figures to be one in the same today, it wasn’t always so– particularly in ancient times. And as much of the Mansion’s decoration harkens back to the ancient word, it often commands an ancient unpacking.