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Wrights Ferry Museum group outlines campus plan to repurpose freight building and expand visitor offerings
Summary
Leaders of the Wrights Ferry Mansion and its foundation presented plans to consolidate parcels, restore the Frank Furness–designed freight building, add a research library annex and pedestrian/parking improvements; the commission provided feedback but took no formal vote.
Representatives for Wrights Ferry Mansion presented a concept to develop a multi-building campus around the mansion and the adjacent Railroad Freight Building, including gallery and research-library additions, new pedestrian connections, and landscape and stormwater improvements.
James Abbott, executive director for Wrights Ferry Mansion and the Louise Diamond Von Hess Foundation, described a plan to use the Railroad Freight Building (designed by Frank Furness) as a year-round introduction to the mansion and as an annex for the foundation’s growing research library. “We do not want more visitors to the museum. The museum is an artifact,” Abbott said, explaining the foundation’s preservation-first approach while also describing efforts to become more of a year-round cultural…
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