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The Museum of Early Trades and Crafts is a non-profit educational institution in Madison, Morris County, New Jersey, United States. The museum's mission is: :''To enhance the understanding and appreciation of America’s past by presenting and interpreting the history, culture and lives of ordinary people through educational programs, through preservation and stewardship of our collection, and through exhibition and demonstration of the trades and crafts practiced in New Jersey from its earliest settlement.'' The museum's historic structure, the Madison Public Library and the James Building, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as Reference #: 80002512).〔(New Jersey and National Registers of Historic Places: Morris County ), New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection - Historic Preservation Office. Accessed September 24, 2007.〕 ==History== The museum was founded in 1969 in the former site of the Madison Public Library to house a collection of over 8,000 tools and artifacts used in New Jersey before 1860 that had been collected by Agnes and Edgar Land.〔Zimmer, William. (" Remaking a Treasure Chest of Tools and Trades" ), ''The New York Times'', September 1, 1996. Accessed September 24, 2007.〕 The couple started their collection on Long Island in the 1940s, purchasing 18th and 19th century craft items that had been used on area farms that had started to become mechanized or converted to residential developments. The couple continued their collecting after moving to New Jersey.〔Freudenheim, Betty. ("CRAFTS; A Collection That Grew To Fill a Museum" ), ''The New York Times'', November 24, 1991. Accessed September 24, 2007.〕 The museum's building, designed by the partnership of Charles Brigham and Willard P. Adden of Boston,〔(James Library Building )〕 is a prime example of Romanesque Revival; the building, a gift to the town of D. Willis James,〔James was a grandson of Anson G. Phelps.〕 was completed in 1900, and was used as the town's library until the late 1960s when it was leased by the Lands as a site for the museum.〔 The museum underwent an extensive renovation project in the 1990s, funded by a million-dollar fundraising effort, to bring the facility up to date in its century-old structure.〔 As part of the renovation project, the museum received a $240,000 grant from the New Jersey Historic Trust towards interior restoration that would allow the public to appreciate the building's "most dramatic architectural features--groined vaulting, decorative stained glass and stenciling, fireplaces, handsome light fixtures and intricate woodwork" which had been hidden by architectural changes made over the intervening years since its construction a century earlier.〔(Museum of Early Trades and Crafts ), New Jersey Historic Trust. Accessed September 24, 2007.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Museum of Early Trades and Crafts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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