Stuart Heritage Museum

The Stuart Heritage Museum, at 161 Southwest Flagler Avenue in Stuart, Florida, is a local history museum located in an historic 2-story frame building built in 1901 by George W. Parks. Parks used the first floor of the building for his Geo. W. Parks Grocery and General Merchandise Store and second floor for his home. In 1913, the building became the Stuart Mercantile Company and in the 1960s after a series of uses, it became the Stuart Feed Store. In 1989, the Stuart Feed Store was listed in A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture.[2][3]

Stuart Heritage Museum
Location within Florida
Location161 Southwest Flagler Avenue
Stuart, Florida
Coordinates27.20058°N 80.25603°W / 27.20058; -80.25603
TypeHistory[1]
Historic plaque on the building
Western wall of building with old V-C Fertilizers ad

The museum houses over 10,000 artifacts from the 1880s to the 1950s.[4]

In April 2010, the historic 1920s Talley and Evans Crary Sr. House at 311 Cardinal Way was cut in half and moved to the vacant lot just west of the Feed Store, where it awaits restoration and use by Stuart Heritage Museum.[5]

References
  1. MuseumsUSA. "Stuart Heritage Museum, Stuart, Florida", MuseumsUSA website, 2007. Retrieved on November 14, 2007.
  2. Reeves, F. Blair, editor, A Guide to Florida's Historic Architecture, 1989, Gainesville: University of Florida Press, p. 137, ISBN 0-8130-0941-3
  3. Hilbig, Beth Ann (2008-02-06). "Annual home tour celebrates Stuart's heritage". TCPalm. The E.W. Scripps Co. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
  4. Treasure Coast Almanac, Inc. "Area Museum & Attractions", InsideTrack Almanac, volume 12, issue 4, October - December 2007, p. 87.
  5. Turner, Jim (2010-04-29). "Crary House will be moved through downtown Stuart starting late Thursday night". TCPalm. The E.W. Scripps Co. Retrieved 2011-12-28.
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