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Article: Raising the roof
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- Roanoke Times & World News
- Article date:
- October 3, 2009
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The modest two-story, 165-year-old brick structure has survived
the Civil War, a stint as a frat house and an uprooting and
relocation down Main Street from its original site.
More recently the Williams-Brown House, home to the Salem Museum
since 1992, has since last year been in the midst of a major
multimillion-dollar makeover, one supporters are still trying raise
funds to cover.
Among other renovations in the works, a 9,700-square-foot
addition, now under construction, will triple the building's size,
according to museum Director John Long. The museum, the largest
repository of Salem-centric archives, exhibits and collections, has
undergone no renovations in the past 17 years.