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2014 Annual Report
Highlights of 2014
History Here: Remembering in Place
Putting History in Context
Ever driven by a location and wondered "Has
anything interesting ever happened here?" Our
new project,
History Here, helps you find out!
Inspired by the Art The Box Project in downtown
Eugene, we used large traffic signal boxes to
locate several posters around town. These posters
were created in collaboration with the Lane
County Historical Society and Museum using
photos from their collections. All of the posters
feature historical images of events, people, or
activities that took place at or near that location
with a short caption that tells the story of the
image.
This project is funded in part by a grant by Lane
Arts Council with support from the City of
Eugene Cultural Services Division. It has also
been supported by the City of Eugene's Art in
Public Places program.
We have placed 13 posters so far, with at least 2
more planned for 2015. The posters should last
about 5 years.
Click here for a map of all of the poster locations.
This poster at the corner of River Road and
Northwest Expressway is one of 13 History
Here posters located around the Eugene area.
New Events:
Victorian Family
Holidays
A family friendly event!
On December 6, 2014 we held our
first ever Victorian Family Holidays
event. This family friendly event
featured story telling, Christmas
Cracker making, gingerbread cookie
decorating, a scavenger hunt, and
writing letters to Santa.
We are extremely grateful to MECCA for their donation of supplies and to Pacific Continental
Bank for the generous grant that made this event possible! We also want to thank The Dancing
Weasel Toy Store, Eugene Toy and Hobby, and VenderNoFive for their donations to our
scavenger hunt raffle. Finally, thank you to Cousin Jack's Pasties and BGE Photography for
helping us make this event special.
Click here to see pictures of this event!
Windows Project
In June, we began work on our Window
Restoration Project. Phase One is well underway,
with the 4 single pane windows in the Turret room
as well as the two large windows in the attic
having been replaced by Culver Glass Company.
The largest part of the project, the 50+ doublehung wood windows around the House, has
started with the full restoration of one window in
the Parlor.
This window, our model window, has given us a
better understanding of just what it will take to
fully restore each of these 126 year old openings.
In a stroke of luck, we found 6 of the original
screens in the basement that are in good enough
shape to help us re-create them. While working on
the model window, the contractor also restored an
original screen and created a new one from
scratch to be used in another window after it is
restored.
Given our short dry season and the large project,
we have split the project into several phases to be
done over time. The first phase is to restore all of Board Member Lee Kersh discusses the
the windows on all three floors of the Turret by
replacement of the windows in the Turret
June 2015.
Room with Steve from Culver Glass Company.
We will begin work on Phase Two as soon as funding and weather allows. If you would
like to help, please contact us at director@smjhouse.org for more information.
Daily Life at the
Museum
For the calender year of 2014
Group Tour visitors: 304
Regular visitors:
1933
Tea Attendees:
428
Rental Visitors:
500
Candlelight Tours: 135
House Events:
90
Total Visitors:
3,390
Volunteers: 45*
Volunteer Hours: 1,685*
(*These numbers do not include the hard
work of the Eugene Garden Club Members
who maintain SMJ's grounds year round!)
The West Side Baptist Church had a group tour in April
2014. SMJ hosts several group tours a year.
SMJ holds a garage sale fundraiser every year in June that is
facilitated by our wonderful volunteers!
We Thank YOU!
SMJ is greatful for your support.
Oregon Community Foundation
Kinsman Foundation
SELCO Community Credit Union
Pacific Continental Bank
So Delicious Dairy Free
Stanton Winery
BGE Photography
Off The Waffle
Don Peting
Cindy Heitstuman
The Campbell House
Oregon Shakespeare Festival
Rexius
The Oregon Bach Festival
Arbor South
Don Hill
Jim Johnson
The Osternig Giving Fund
Dale Berg
Cannery Pier
The Mill Casino
The Eugene Hilton
Seven Feathers Casino and Resort
And the many many others who have donated
to our silent auction and other fundraising
events. We could not do this without your
generosity!
Contact
Leah Murray, Executive Director
303 Willamette Street, Eugene OR 97401
541-484-0808
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I want to lead the Victorian
life, surrounded by
exquisite clutter.
- Freddie Mercury
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