Slater Memorial Museum

Not to be confused with The Slater Museum of Natural History.

Slater Memorial Museum
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
John Fox Slater Memorial Museum in 1958
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Location	108 Crescent Street
Coordinates	41°32′1″N 72°4′55″W
Built	1885; dedicated 1886.
Architect	Stephen C. Earle, Cudworth & Woodworth
Architectural style	Richardsonian Romanesque
Part of	Chelsea Parade Historic District (ID88003215[1])
Added to NRHP	May 12, 1989

The J. F. Slater Memorial Museum, also known as Slater Memorial Museum, is a historic building and art museum on the grounds of the Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, built in 1885 and dedicated in 1886. It is designed in Richardsonian Romanesque architecture and is said to be the finest work of architect Stephen C. Earle.^{[2]: 44, 48 [3][4]}

It is a contributing property in the Chelsea Parade Historic District.^[2]

The museum was presented to the Norwich Free Academy by William A. Slater, son of John Fox Slater, who had endowed the school.

The museum features a gypsotheque, a collection of plaster casts of famous Roman, Greek, Egyptian and Renaissance statues. The museum also exhibits colonial and local historic artifacts, as well as 18th-to-20th-century American paintings and decorative arts, 17th-to-19th-century European paintings and decorative arts, African and Oceanic sculpture, and Native American objects. The adjacent Converse Art Gallery hosts six changing exhibitions throughout the year. The gallery, built in 1906, was designed by the leading local firm of Cudworth & Woodworth.^[5]

The museum is a member of the North American Reciprocal Museums program.

See also

• John F. Slater House or Elks Club, also HABS documented, at 352 E. Main Street.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
2. William Devlin and Bruce Clouette (June 25, 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Chelsea Parade". National Park Service. and Accompanying 25 photos, undated but seemingly from 1988 (Photo 11 shows Slater Memorial)
3. "Slater Memorial Museum".
4. "What is this place". Archived from the original on July 14, 2011.
5. Class of 1884, Harvard College: Twentieth-Fifth Anniversary Report of the Secretary. Cambridge: University Press, June 1909.

Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Slater, John Fox" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 211–212.

External links

• Slater Memorial Museum at Norwich Free Academy
• John Fox Slater Memorial Museum, at HABS