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• Department of Cultural Affairs
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• Muslim Public Affairs Council condemns calls for National Guard to be deployed against protesters
• Nearly 100 people arrested at USC, police say

Work and classes will remain remote, and officials are considering keeping the campus closed for longer. Guided tours on special topics are available on third Thursday evenings and on select Saturdays. In this haunting adaptation of the works of Edgar Allan Poe, join the visitors of the melancholy House of Usher on a candlelit journey into the macabre. Despite their apprehensions, a stubborn doctor, a resentful medium, and a murderer attend the funeral of an eccentric recluse—only to question the circumstances surrounding her untimely death. As they begin to outstay their welcome, they uncover evidence of a connection between their disturbing pasts and the sinister presence stalking their every move. With their secrets exposed, they must be willing to summon their ghosts to survive the supernatural forces at work, and confront the meddlesome housekeeper who knows more than she claims.

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The research and analy­sis of the Camp­bell House has revealed new infor­ma­tion about the Camp­bell fam­i­ly and their neigh­bor­hood. Many of the sto­ries are still famil­iar to us today; enlarg­ing a kitchen, adding a bath­room, choos­ing the right col­or to paint the walls, find­ing space for a rel­a­tive to stay, and keep­ing up with cur­rent fashion. Come view original art from local community members as they explore what COMMUNITY means to them. Request a tour appoint­ment for a time when the muse­um is closed. Appoint­ments are not need­ed dur­ing our reg­u­lar hours (Wed.-Sat. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sun. Noon to 4 p.m. dur­ing the months of March through Decem­ber). An email will be sent to you updat­ing the sta­tus of your tour request.

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Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture invites community to celebrate the holidays at the Historic Campbell House - FOX 28 Spokane

Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture invites community to celebrate the holidays at the Historic Campbell House.

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“Camp­bell House Muse­um is pos­si­bly the most well-pre­served and lov­ing­ly restored his­toric home in Amer­i­ca. That the vast major­i­ty of the col­lec­tion is orig­i­nal to the home is aston­ish­ing! The opu­lent Par­lor alone will take your breath away.”- Mor­gan G. As a small non­prof­it foun­da­tion, the Camp­bell House Muse­um receives no state, local, or fed­er­al fund­ing of any kind.

Muslim Public Affairs Council condemns calls for National Guard to be deployed against protesters

The inte­ri­or restora­tion began in the Spring of 2001 and was com­plet­ed in May 2005. Public voting for your favorite art work is open through October. Established by homesteaders Bill and Elizabeth Campbell in 1925, this property has a unique and beautiful story. Experience all the modern comforts of home with plenty of space to hang out, inside or out. Located on the west side of the grounds, the Pool Cottage is your home away from home in the desert. Don’t worry about the heat; as the name implies, this individual cottage is located poolside.

Please con­sid­er part­ner­ing with us by giv­ing to con­tin­ue the preser­va­tion of the Camp­bell House and St. Louis his­to­ry, click the tabs below for more information. The Camp­bell House Muse­um would not exist today with the gen­er­ous sup­port of com­mu­ni­ty-mind­ed indi­vid­u­als through­out the St. Louis area and nation­wide. The Camp­bell House offers a vari­ety of edu­ca­tion­al pro­grams and tours, which can be adapt­ed to fit most any age group (includ­ing inquis­i­tive adults) and curriculum. Experience history in this 1920’s cottage, built by the Campbell’s to serve as their temporary residence during construction of the Stone Homestead. From the peg and plank original wood floors, to the grand fireplace crafted from local-quarried stone, this beautifully appointed suite is steeped in history. Whether you’re in pre or post production, this event will illuminate each step of the way through first hand accounts from Women In Film (WIF) fellows, alumni, and more.

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Includ­ed in these doc­u­ments is a unique album of 60 pho­tographs of the inte­ri­or of the house tak­en in about 1885. In 2005, CHM com­plet­ed a metic­u­lous five-year restora­tion that returned the build­ing to its opu­lent 1880s appear­ance, when the house was one of the cen­ters of St. Louis society. This very large col­lec­tion includes pri­ma­ry mate­ri­als on the activ­i­ties of Camp­bell, his friends, asso­ciates, busi­ness part­ners and adver­saries.

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On May 15, 1851, dry goods mer­chant John Hall and his part­ner James Don­ald­son bought the lot on which 20 Lucas Place would be built. The lot had 50 feet of street frontage and was 155 feet deep from the street to the alley. Not­ed St. Louis archi­tect Thomas Waryng Walsh(1826–1890) designed the house. Detailed analy­sis of CHM’s 1880s pho­tographs have pro­vid­ed a wealth of infor­ma­tion about car­pet and wall­pa­per pat­terns, fur­ni­ture place­ment, and the use of space in the house. The evi­dence, how­ev­er, can only pro­vide a frame­work for the restoration. Old build­ings offer a wealth of infor­ma­tion about the past.

Our tour guide was friendly and knowledgeable, and the tour group was not too large. I rang the doorbell and was greeted by Sam, who gave me a detailed tour of the home of one of St. Louis’s early wealthy families, filled with their original furniture and art. “Once you set foot inside, you will be trans­port­ed to a dif­fer­ent world and time.

All of these records are were sub­mit­ted to the court to prove rela­tion to the grand­par­ents of Hazlett Camp­bell. The St. Louis Cir­cuit Court also con­tains dozens of cas­es per­tain­ing to Robert Camp­bell busi­ness inter­ests cir­ca 1838–1879. The Muse­um not only pre­serves the Camp­bells’ house, but also their col­lec­tion of orig­i­nal fur­ni­ture, fix­tures, paint­ings, objects and thou­sands of pages of fam­i­ly doc­u­ments.

The William Clark Soci­ety, togeth­er with oth­er orga­ni­za­tions like the Adver­tis­ing Club of St. Louis, band­ed togeth­er to try to save the house. In just six weeks, they man­aged to raise $6,000 to pur­chase many Camp­bell items at auc­tion in 1941. Hun­dreds of oth­er pieces were donat­ed by pri­vate cit­i­zens. The house itself was not pur­chased until 1942, with the help of a large dona­tion by Stix, Baer, and Fuller, a local depart­ment store. Although this tar­get date is more than 30 years after the con­struc­tion of the house and its pur­chase by the Camp­bells, 1885 offers a unique point to look at how both gen­er­a­tions of fam­i­ly lived in the build­ing.

This col­lec­tion con­tains let­ters relat­ing to Robert Camp­bel­l’s ear­ly career as a fur trad­er includ­ing his 1833 Rocky Moun­tain jour­nal. Per­son­al and busi­ness let­ters and oth­er busi­ness records form the bulk of the col­lec­tion. The col­lec­tion also con­tains records for two Camp­bell fam­i­ly court cas­es from 1864 and 1938.

WIF welcomes everyone to join this FREE interactive showcase and have conversations with emerging and established creatives. INSIGHT events are designed to uplift experiences and spaces for marginalized communities. The Los Angeles Police Department arrested approximately 50 protestors at the University of Southern California after campus police gave a dispersal order to demonstrators, according to a CNN crew at the scene. A photographer was among those arrested during clashes between protesters and law enforcement on the University of Texas at Austin campus on Wednesday. Other buildings on the campus in Arcata are at risk of being occupied, and protesters “have shown a willingness” to lock themselves in facilities and steal equipment, the officials said.

Only after a detailed analy­sis was com­plet­ed was a final plan for the restora­tion developed. In addi­tion to the pho­tos, the Muse­um is for­tu­nate to have a large col­lec­tion of let­ters, ledgers and receipts from the Camp­bells that doc­u­ment changes made to the house between 1854 and 1938. This col­lec­tion also doc­u­ments the com­plex busi­ness, fam­i­ly and social rela­tion­ships of the family. Built in 1851, the first house in the ele­gant Lucas Place neigh­bor­hood, the Camp­bell House was the home of renowned fur trad­er and entre­pre­neur Robert Camp­bell and his fam­ily from 1854 until 1938. The muse­um con­tains hun­dreds of orig­i­nal Camp­bell pos­ses­sions includ­ing fur­ni­ture, paint­ings, cloth­ing, let­ters, car­riages and a unique set of inte­rior pho­tographs tak­en in the mid-1880s.

A local history group called the William Clark Society began to organize an effort to save the building and its contents as a museum. The committee formed for the task included architectural historian John Bryan, eminent Missouri historian Charles van Ravenswaay and director of the St. Louis Art Museum Perry Rathborne. Lim­it­ed free park­ing is avail­able in the lot direct­ly next to the Muse­um. Street park­ing is avail­able at park­ing meters (free on Sun­day) on both Locust and 15th Streets.

The Camp­bel­l’s house in 1885 does not rep­re­sent a sin­gle peri­od styl­is­ti­cal­ly, but rather reflects the fam­i­ly’s ongo­ing ren­o­va­tion and con­stant­ly chang­ing tastes. While the sto­ry of the Camp­bell house and fam­i­ly is com­plex, it is also one of the rich­est and most fas­ci­nat­ing looks at the lives of any 19th Cen­tu­ry Amer­i­can fam­i­ly. It’s a sto­ry that details an immi­grant’s expe­ri­ence, entre­pre­neur­ial suc­cess, the cre­ation of a show­place res­i­dence and the growth of a fam­i­ly and city dur­ing one of Amer­i­ca’s most dynam­ic peri­ods of history.