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Hopewell Museum
Paris, KY |
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Hopewell Museum e-mail: hopewellmuseum@yahoo.com |
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Hours: Wed-Sat 12-5; Sun 2-4; Monday and Tuesday by appointment
Admission free History & Fine Art Museum Since its opening in December of 1995, Hopewell Museum has offered changing exhibits on the art and history of Bourbon County and Central Kentucky. Built in 1909 as the United States Post Office for Paris, Kentucky, the handsome building, designed by architect James Knox Taylor, is an outstanding representation of the Beaux Arts style. The facade displays rounded windows placed in symmetrical bays with molded, glazed terra cotta tile in neoclassical designs. The interior appointments reveal cross or groin vaulted ceilings and neoclassical details around the windows and original post office compartments. Special Event A Summer Evening at Albemarle: Sunday, June 22, 2008 6-8 pm Enjoy a box supper and tour the house and grounds at Albemarle, 444 Millersburg Road, Paris KY. Built in 1816, this is one of the best illustrations of the Federal style in Bourbon County, KY. |
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Exhibitions:
Harlan Hubbard: Life in the Landscape Put yourself in the Kentucky landscapes of Harlan Hubbard, artist, self-sufficient farmer, author and shanty boat river traveler. This unique exhibit is a first-ever compilation of Harlan Hubbard's works interspersed with excerpts from his writings. Harlan Hubbard celebrated towns, back roads, farms and woodlands with his paintings of the Kentucky landscape. He and his wife Anna traveled down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers on a handmade shantyboat and then returned to Kentucky, where they lived a self-sustained life on the banks of the river at Payne Hollow for 36 years. His books Shantyboat and Payne Hollow contain his drawings and woodblock prints, and his river boat paintings were well known. This exhibit features the landscapes that Harlan Hubbard loved to paint, during his struggling years as a young artist, his river trip, and the pioneering years he and Anna spent on the riverbank in Kentucky. |
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