GeorgiaThe LaGrange Art Museum occupies the former Troup County Jail, a Victorian building erected in 1892 and built by Washington W. King, a son of the noted bridge builder Horace King. After the jail closed, the structure served other uses before the Callaway Foundation donated it in 1978 to the art association that had grown out of the Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, founded in 1963. Renovated into gallery space, it operated as the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum and was renamed the LaGrange Art Museum in 2006. Standing beside Lafayette Square in downtown LaGrange, the museum today presents four galleries of changing exhibitions, a permanent collection, classrooms, and a sculpture garden, with the old cellblock and tower preserved as reminders of the building's original purpose.
Lagrange ART Museum
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Lagrange ART Museum is a museum in Lagrange, Troup County. It is one of 4 museums documented in Troup County, among 152 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.0386, -85.0308 near Lagrange. The nearest cataloged historic site is Lafayette (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Troup County, <i>Gilbert du Motier</i> Marquis de LaFayette, and Fuller Earle Callaway, Sr..
This record is drawn from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The LaGrange Art Museum occupies the former Troup County Jail, a Victorian building erected in 1892 and built by Washington W. King, a son of the noted bridge builder Horace King. After the jail closed, the structure served other uses before the Callaway Foundation donated it in 1978 to the art association that had grown out of the Chattahoochee Valley Art Association, founded in 1963. Renovated into gallery space, it operated as the Chattahoochee Valley Art Museum and was renamed the LaGrange Art Museum in 2006. Standing beside Lafayette Square in downtown LaGrange, the museum today presents four galleries of changing exhibitions, a permanent collection, classrooms, and a sculpture garden, with the old cellblock and tower preserved as reminders of the building's original purpose.
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