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1 Completed in 1979, the MUSEUM CENTER is the hub around which Museum activities revolve. It houses the reception center; the Museum Archives and Library; a lecture/exhibit hall with changing exhibits; storage areas for the Museum's object collections;offices; and workshops. In the lobby you'll find an exhibit about the founder of the Museum, Sharlot M. Hall. |
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2 The GOVERNOR’S
MANSION was built on this site in 1864 from Ponderosa pine logs
cut nearby. It housed the first territorial governor, John Goodwin,
and his staff, including Secretary (late Governor)Richard McCormick
and his bride Margaret; Chief Justice William Turner; and Henry Fluery.
When the territorial capital was moved to Tucson in 1867, Governor McCormick
sold this cabin to Henry Fleury. Large and well built, it is called
a "mansion" in comparison to the tents, wagons, and crude
cabins for the rest of Prescott's new citizens in 1864. In 1927 Sharlot
M. Hall moved into the Governor's
Mansion and opened it as a museum a year later.
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The SHARLOT HALL BUILDING, constructed of native rock
and pine logs by the Civil Works Administration, has been the Museum’s
primary exhibit hall since its completion in 1934.
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4 The FREMONT HOUSE,
built in 1875, was the home of Jessie Benton and John Charles Fr6mont,
while John served as the fifth territorial governor of Arizona (1878-1881).
The sophisticated construction of this house reflects the rapid growth
of Prescott during the ten years after 1864. Furnishings are from 1875-1881.
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5 The BASHFORD HOUSE
(and MUSEUM SHOP), is an excellent
example of Prescott's Victorian architecture, the height of housing
fashion for the twenty-five years before statehood. Built in 1877, it
was bought by merchant William Coles Bashford for his young wife, Louise
Evans. The couple expanded and modified the house extensively. It was
moved seven blocks to the Museum in 1974 to save it from destruction.
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6 FORT MISERY is the oldest log building
associated with the territory of Arizona. It was built on the banks
of Granite Creek (two blocks south of the Museum) in 1863-64 by Manuel
Yrissari, a trader from Santa Fe, to be his home and store. Sharlot
Hall had it disassembled in 1934 and reassembled on the Museum grounds.
A cornplete reconstruction, done in 1996-97 with assistance from the
Heritage Fund, Arizona State Parks, has restored it to its original
configuration. It is furnished to the 1890s when Judge John Howard was
its owner and resident
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 7 The TRANSPORTATION BUILDING was built in 1937 as an automobile-repair garage. It now exhibits the Museum's vehicle collection. On display are Sharlot M. Hall’s personal 1927 Star automobile, a Modoc stagecoach, a high-wheeled bicycle, and a variety of other forms of transportation. |
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| The RANCH HOUSE was built by volunteers
under Sharlot Hall’s supervision in the 1930s to represent the
ranch homes of the area.
The SCHOOLHOUSE is a 1962 replica, built by the Prescott Rotary Club, of the first public schoolhouse in the Arizona Territory, which was built in Prescott in 1867. This 1885 Iron Turbine WINDMILL (listed on the National Register of Historic Places) relocated from a local ranch. Gardens include 1870s KITCHEN GARDEN, Pioneer HERB GARDEN, ETHNOBOTANICAL GARDEN, and the Territorial Women's Memorial ROSE GARDEN where over 260 rose bushes honor Arizona's pioneer women.
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The
Buildings and Grounds of the Sharlot Hall Museum
