Shelburne Museum Round Barn and Ticonderoga steamboat
— — a round barn and a side-wheel steamboat, both standing in a Vermont field.
Not only on a wall.
“Two of the Shelburne Museum's strangest neighbors: a three-story round barn rolled in from East Passumpsic in 1985, and the steamboat Ticonderoga, the last of her kind, dragged two miles overland from Lake Champlain in 1955. They sit a short walk from each other on the museum's open lawn. The proportions never quite stop surprising people who come around the corner. — from the studio
Shelburne Museum Round Barn and Ticonderoga steamboat, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
Shelburne Museum is a 45-acre art and Americana museum in Shelburne, Vermont, founded in 1947 by collector Electra Havemeyer Webb. Webb assembled 39 historic buildings on the grounds, many of them moved intact from other sites in New England, along with collections of American folk art, quilts, decoys, carriages, and Impressionist paintings. The Round Barn and the side-wheel steamboat Ticonderoga are among the largest objects on the property, both relocated to Shelburne to be preserved. The museum sits along Route 7 about seven miles south of Burlington.
The Round Barn was built in 1901 in East Passumpsic, Vermont, a three-story timber structure 80 feet across, with a stone foundation, a central silo, and a self-supporting roof framed on radial rafters. It was dismantled, moved, and rebuilt at the museum in 1985 and 1986. The Ticonderoga, launched in 1906 at the Shelburne Shipyard, is a 220-foot walking-beam side-wheel passenger steamboat, the last intact vessel of her kind. She was hauled two miles overland in the winter of 1955 to her permanent berth on the museum grounds.
Shelburne Museum is open seasonally, generally May through October, with limited winter hours for selected indoor galleries. A timed general admission ticket covers the grounds and most of the historic buildings, including the Round Barn and the Ticonderoga. Visitors walk between buildings on gravel paths across the property; allow most of a day to see it all. The museum sits along Route 7 in Shelburne village, about seven miles south of Burlington and a short drive from Shelburne Farms and Shelburne Bay.