Judd-Harris House Window Restoration Project
Thank you to the Sheldon’s window sponsors!
David and Colleen Stameshkin
Robert Black
The Henry Prickitt Family
Margaret (Peggy) Burns
John L. Buttolph, III
Polly Darnell
Beth Davis
Peter DeGraff
Marsha Rooney & Barney Fix
Suki Fredericks and James Maroney
Mark & Suzanne Friis
John Haltigan
edie & glo
Libby Wilson, Sheldon Family Association
The Judd-Harris House, which is home to the Henry Sheldon Museum’s collection, was built in 1829 by the marble merchant Eben Judd and his son-in-law Lebbeus Harris. The three-story brick house was a monument to their stature in the local marble industry. With marble columns and window lintels and six elegant fireplaces of rare black marble, the house continues to have a stately presence in Middlebury center.
After moving into the house as a boarder in the 1850s, museum founder Henry Sheldon ultimately purchased the structure to house his growing collection of objects, which would become the core of the Sheldon Art and Archaeological Museum, founded in 1882. Since 1884, the Judd-Harris House has housed and displayed Henry’s idiosyncratic collection of community artifacts and curios and has been lauded as the oldest community-based museum in the United States.
In 2021, the poor condition of the majority of the window sashes in the Judd-Harris House became apparent, and a plan was sought and developed to remove, restore, and reinstall the affected windows. Restoration work has been skillfully completed by Jeff Fellinger and his team at Willard Street Traditions.
The Henry Sheldon Museum thanks the following organizations for their support of this project:
1772 Foundation
Osprey Fund
Warner Fletcher Foundation
Vermont Division for Historic Preservation
Thank you to the Sheldon’s window sponsors!
David and Antonia Holmes
The Family of Walter Hurd, GAR
Peter and Joann Langrock
Lorraine Muller
Diane Palmeri
Elizabeth Shattuck
Robert Sheldon
Stephen Sheldon
Michael & Nancy Sheldon
Sheldon Family Association
Carolyn (Cookie) Tager
John Tenny
Wende Warren
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