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Re-discovering Greenmanville
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George Greenman House
Closed to Museum visitors.
This house was built in 1839 for George Greenman (1805-1891), the oldest of the three brothers who founded the George Greenman & Co. Shipyard. The three brothers lived here until Clark and Thomas built their houses in 1841 and 1842. It was built in the Greek Revival style then prevalent in the U.S. The cast-iron fence was put up about 1866, and the porch and ornate decorations were added to the house in the 1870s. In style and paint color, the house now looks the way it did around 1900. The Museum purchased the house from George Greenman's great-granddaughter in 1970. The George Greenman House will eventually be restored as an exhibit building.
| Thanks to a 2009 grant from the Connecticut Humanities Council (http://www.ctculture.org), Mystic Seaport is continuing with the research and planning phase to open the George Greenman house as a Museum exhibit. The exhibit will be an interactive, thought-provoking, emotionally moving experience that uses the Greenman family and community to shed light on important American values and acts of their day. |