Free Museum Day Recap - Through the Years

 

September 26, 2009

Charlotte, NC

 

Charlotte Museum of History

Hezekiah Alexander Homesite

 

 

September 25, 2010

Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

 

 

 

September 24, 2011

Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC

 

 

 

September 28, 2013

Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

Lunch at Salem Tavern

 

 

September 27, 2014

Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC 

September 26, 2015

Historic Latta Plantation, Huntersville, NC

September 23, 2017

Reynolda House, Winston-Salem, NC

Georgia O'Keeffe display

September 22, 2018

Old Salem, Winston-Salem, NC

September 18, 2021

Blandwood Mansion, Greensboro, NC

Cooleemee Falls - Woodleaf, NC

 

Day trip to RiverPark at Cooleemee Falls 

 

 

Picnic lunch

 

Signs of Fall

Beautiful blue sky

Meditation knitting

 

Strawberry-Bush or Hearts-a-Bustin' is a unique, rhizomatous shrub with an unusual form that occurs in shady woodlands throughout the Southeast to Eastern Texas.

Source

Blandwood Mansion - Greensboro, NC

 

Saturday, September 18, 2021 was Free Museum Day.  This is a day sponsored by Smithsonian Magazine that allows museums across the United States, if they want to participate, to provide free admission up to two people on a single ticket.  

This year my sister and I went to Blandwood Mansion in Greensboro, home of John Motley Morehead, who was Governor of North Carolina from 1841 to 1845.  

When facing it, the section on the left is the original house, a four room Federal style farmhouse constructed in 1795.  The right side is the addition built in 1822. 

 

One of the parlors in the 1822 addition.

 

Painting of Governor Morehead

Another parlor

Admiring the detail

In the hallway between the two sections.

You can tell which is the original section because of the green wainscoting. 

The dining room

After her husband died, one of the daughters moved into this small room just off of the dining room.

Master Bedroom when Governor Morehead lived here.

A winding staircase takes you to the second floor.  Mrs Morehead, private person that she was, had this staircase closed off from any downstairs visiting parties. 

Second level parlor

Second floor guest bedroom on the addition side.

Children's room on the second floor of the original side.

Children's room

 

The reconstructed kitchen is in the gift shop outside.

Herbs planted outside the gift shop.

Rosemary plant goals!

View of the house from the driveway near the garden.

It was a good day!