Harsha House Museum

From QuiltIndex

Exhibits at Harsha House for the 2007-2008 season are:

Military uniforms, clothing, flags, banners, and related items from the museum textile collection, plus military artifacts and a model of a submarine captured by the Japanese in World War II

A tribute to local master cobbler John Smith

The wood bird carvings of Gordon Neff

A photographic collage reminiscence marking the 125th anniversary of the Congregational Church

a selection of images from the Bob Miles Photo Collection used to illustrate the new publication "The History of Bridge Street" by Don Campbell (see home page)

A recently donated Edison Gem Phonograph that played wax cylinders is on display in the front formal parlor

Other exhibits are:

The 3 1/2 order Fresnel lens from the Gray's Reef light north of Beaver Island

Ernest Hemingway's original marriage license with first wife Hadley Richardson

A 1920s working player piano

A working reed organ

The huge safe from the Charlevoix Lumber Company

Panels of mounted historic photographs

An eight-foot tall, 200 story Petoskey Stone tower made for the Bicentennial of 1976

Original artwork by Charlevoix area artists is on display in two of the three restored Victorian rooms

Harsha House Museum attractions include:

3 Victorian Period Rooms