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If you were to look for the Silver City Museum expecting to find a square institutional building with a blank facade, you would be disappointed. If, however, you find yourself at a picket fence staring up at a charming red brick Victorian house with a three-story cupola, then you will have discovered the Silver City Museum.
Comments from the museum Visitor Log range from “Fantastic!!”, “Excellent!”, and “Very Interesting!”, to “This is among the finest house museums I have visited. All is so well preserved, and paints a great picture of what the town was like in its heyday.”
Built in 1881, the H.B. Ailman House, home of the Silver City Museum, has been tagged Mansard/Italianate for its bell-curved Mansard roof and fancy bracketed eaves. The visitor enters through double doors, stepping into a foyer with oak floors, period wall coverings, and an oak “hall tree,” a curiosity with a mirror, umbrella stand, and upholstered seat all rolled into one. The carved wood staircase disappears into the upper story. Restored Victorian rooms and a large modern gallery show visitors objects that, like the house itself, fascinate and inform.
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