Verdmont
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| Website: | Versmont House and Gardens |
Verdmont is a historic house built c. 1710, located at 6 Verdmont Lane, Collector’s Hill in Smith's Parish, Bermuda. It is now operated as a museum by the Bermuda National Trust. The house is essentially structurally unchanged since it was built.
The house became a museum in 1956, and now is listed as part of Bermuda's "African Diaspora Heritage Trail", part of UNESCO's 'Slave Route Project'.[1]
In the 17th century, before the house was built, the property belonged to John Sayle, who left Bermuda for South Carolina and became the latter colony's first governor. The house was built here by John Dickinson who was a shipowner and was the speaker of Bermuda's House of Assembly from 1707 to 1710.[2] Among its later owners was the painter and judge John Green.
The house has four large chimneys and contains collections of antique Bermuda cedarwood furniture, Bermuda portraits, and British and Chinese porcelain.[3]
The period-style gardens have a panoramic view over Bermuda's south shore and include roses, herbs, and other plants cultivated in the 18th century.[4][3]
Outside links
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("Wikimedia Commons" has material about Verdmont) |
- Versmont House and Gardens - Bermuda National Trust
- Museum
- Verdmont at 50, special edition of Trust News, Bermuda National Trust, 2007
References
- ↑ "African Diaspora Heritage Trail". African Diaspora Heritage Trail. http://www.gotobermuda.com/uploadedFiles/GetHere/MapsAndBrochures/SubContent/ADHT.pdf. Retrieved 14 February 2013.
- ↑ Darwin Porter; Danforth Prince (2011). Frommer's Bermuda 2012. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 224. ISBN 9781118141465. http://books.google.com/books?id=aFXGI8us4QwC&pg=PT134#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 15 February 2013. p. 134
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Museums & Historic Buildings: Verdmont - Bermuda National Trust
- ↑ Museum Register