Hopewell Museum
Hopewell Museum The Hopewell Museum was incorporated in 1922 as the Hopewell Free Public Library and Museum Funding and Building Association. It was formed to raise funds for a building to house a collection of antiques offered to the community by the late Sarah D. Stout. This collection became the nucleus of the Hopewell Museum and was founded by the efforts of Robert Louis Scharring-Hausen in 1922.
The original Museum and Public Library were housed in a large, brownstone structure that was built by Randolph Stout in 1877. In 1965 the Hopewell Public Library moved to its present location and in 1967 a two-story addition was made to the Museum building from Dr. David H. Hill. The additional space enabled the Hopewell Museum to display other fine collections of Southwestern Native American crafts donated by Dr. Hill.
The Museum displays American village life from colonial days to the present. Many of the items having been used by the ancestors of Hopewell.
references
- [http://www.redlibrary.org/missionandhistory.html Hopewell history to 1921 taken from "Help Hopewell Honor Her Heroes"
published for Library Week May 21-30, 1921 published by Robert Louis Scharring-Hausen]