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Article: United States: Morse Museum building new $6M to $7M wing.
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- July 10, 2008
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Byline: pinto03
The Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art announced plans to spend between $6 million and $7 million to build a 10,000-square-foot addition. The new space would house most of its holdings of objects and architectural elements from Laurelton Hall, Louis Comfort Tiffany's Long Island, N.Y., country estate. It would also include additional office space and triple the size of the outside courtyard garden to 4,450 square feet.
The museum says it plans to start work on the project late this year or early next year and complete the addition by the spring of 2010. The Daffodil Terrace from Laurelton Hall, measuring 32 feet by 18 feet, will ...