This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Beginnings of Norfolk Museum Tied to Two Winchester Women
The long legal fight over the Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences centers on Walter Chrysler Jr and a bid to rename the institution Chrysler Museum. The tale traces to Miss Annie Wood of Winchester and Miss Irene Leache whose partnership sparked Norfolk's arts culture and the museum's forerunners.
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Walter P. Chrysler, Jr
Norfolk Museum of Arts and Sciences
City of
Norfolk
Winchester
Annie Cogswell Wood
Walter Chrysler
Chrysler Museum
Provincetown
Mass
Chrysler
Miss Wood
Irene Leache
Elizabeth
Crawford) Engle
Hampton
Engle
Raleigh Moore Engle
Fauquier County
Miss Leache
Angerona Seminary
Piccadilly Street
Gainesboro
Louis Cogswell
New Jersey
Algernon Wood
New York
Annie
Angerona
Annie Wood
Norfolk’s Museum
Symphony Orchestra
Little Theater
Leache Memorial
Society of Arts