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Alexander House Center for Art & History, Port Edwards, WI
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Alexander House Center for Art & History

A Port Edwards art gallery and local history museum housed in an old colonial-style home beside the Wisconsin River.

1131 Wisconsin River Drive, Port Edwards, WI 54469 · Port Edwards, WI

About Alexander House Center for Art & History

The Alexander House pairs a rotating art gallery with a history museum focused on the region's logging and papermaking past. Its collection of lumbering and paper industry material came from the former Nekoosa-Edwards Paper Company. The building is an older colonial home on the river's edge. The site was founded in 1990 by a local charitable foundation named after John E. Alexander, a longtime paper company executive.

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  • #local history
  • #papermaking
  • #lumbering
  • #rotating exhibits

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