PROMONT HOUSE MUSEUM

MILFORD, OH

Promont House Museum is a historic site located in Milford, Ohio. The house was built in 1865 by William Megrue, a prominent attorney and businessman. It was later purchased by John Pattison, who served as the governor of Ohio from 1906 to 1909. The house is a beautiful example of Italianate architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The museum is open for public tours and offers visitors a glimpse into the daily life of the families who lived in the house. The interior of the house has been meticulously restored to reflect the time period in which it was built. Visitors can see original furnishings, artwork, and decorative items that belonged to the Megrue and Pattison families.

The museum also hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including holiday celebrations, garden parties, and educational programs for children and adults. Visitors can take a guided tour of the house or explore the gardens and grounds on their own.

Promont House Museum is a must-see for anyone interested in history, architecture, or Ohio’s past. It is a beautiful and well-preserved example of a bygone era and is sure to delight visitors of all ages.

PROMONT HOUSE MUSEUM is a Uncategorized or General Museum in MILFORD OH. US MID #8403900062

The museum is classed as GMU (Uncategorized or General Museums). It comes under American Alliance of Museums (AAM) region: Midwest (Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin).

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Cincinnati, Ohio Ohio is a midwestern U.S. state stretching from the Ohio River and Appalachian Mountains in the south to Lake Erie in the north.

On the shores of the lake is the city of Cleveland, site of the Cleveland Museum of Art and its renowned collection of European paintings and especially Asian art.

Behold: something is rotten in Denmark Two art fans study Benjamin West's painting of Hamlet Act IV, Scene V, which I guess is now on me to explain so I looked it up. Here is the scene in a nutshell. In Shakespeare’s day, government was about monarchy and the stability it brought. Hamlet is about regicide and the chaos that follows, which was a recurring theme for The Bard. Hey, the Age of Enlightenment and its idea of checks and balances on power was still over a century away. Modern self-governing republicanism with no monarchy at all was further.

Seeing that his sister had gone crazy, Laertes (the man pointing up in the painting and holding his sickly sister), who has just returned to Denmark, goes into a rage. He wants to revenge the madness of his sister and the killing of his father. That’s fine with King Claudius, who did not kill Laertes’ father; however, he secretly poisoned his own brother, Hamlet Sr., the original and rightful king. Who knew the gentle and happy Danish could be so full of guile and lust for power?

Claudius answered Laertes's anger by telling him that it was best to first be certain who the actual murderer was before focusing his useful and righteous rage. Claudius would help answer all Laertes' questions.

End scene.

What is going on behind the scene of this painting is that the new King Claudius saw an opportunity to use Laertes to silence (kill) Prince Hamlet because the prince was on his corrupt trail. Hamlet is clued into who killed his father because (a) the ghost of his dad in the beginning of the play told him so and (b) Claudius acted mighty suspicious.

Claudius did kill King Hamlet and will use his poisoning modus operandi again, which will backfire.

It was Ophelia's fiancé, the moody and introspective Prince Hamlet (not in this painting scene), who unintentionally killed Laertes's and Ophelia's father, sparking Ophelia's descent into madness and Laertes's rage. By the end of the play, all these people are going to end up dead, including Hamlet, Claudius, and even Hamlet's mother, who quickly remarried Claudius after the death of her husband. (She is the crowned queen in the middle of the painting–the royal without the beard.)

Denmark is going to be leaderless.
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Painting title: Shakespeare’s Hamlet: Act IV, Scene V; Ophelia and Laertes (1792)
Artist: Benjamin West (American,1738-1820)
Venue: Cincinnati Art Museum

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telephone: 5132480324

PROMONT HOUSE MUSEUM
906 MAIN STREET
MILFORD
OH
45150

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MID #	8403900062
Name	PROMONT HOUSE MUSEUM
Alternate Name	PROMONT HOUSE MUSEUM
Classification	Uncategorized or General Museums, , Midwest
Federal Employer Identification Number (EIN)
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LAT/LONG	39.177084, -84.279467
CODES	FIPS State Code: 39 FIPS County Code: 025 US Census Tract: 040500 US Census Block: 4006