Slideshow of McFaddin-Ward House restoration project to supplement The Boy Zone: Putting the Alleged Third Floor on Display for the Stan Hywet Symposium, Akron, OH, October 16-18, 2008.

1. McFaddin-Ward House
Third Floor Restoration

2. Work began on the roof…

3. Repairing the roof 2002

4. 1906 McFaddin Ave in 1906

5. The third floor
•Furnish
•Interpret
•Complete

6. Selecting objects 2005

7. Rug selection 2005

8. Textile selection 2005

9. Furniture selection 2005

10. Adding
carpet to the
back stairs
March 16,
2006

11. Moving Day February 28, 2006

12. Museum staff process artifacts
3rd floor back hall Dec 1983

14. Original gold
wallpaper and
Bradbury &
Bradbury
reproduction

18. Salviati-style
Venetian glass
& Wedgwood

20. Waterbury
Mission-style
clock
installed
March 2006

21. James Lewis Caldwell McFaddin
(1901- 1984)
Belle Austin school
Beaumont High Valedictorian
Rice Institute (1921)
Harvard Law (1924)
Married Rosine Blount (1925)
Attorney for the McFaddin ranches
King of the Neches (1953)
YMCA tennis championships
St. Marks Episcopal Church
Golden Deeds award recipient 1975
Father of four children

28. October 2006
Reproduction
1910s Harvard
and Rice
Institute
pennants

29. Nov 2006
Cap, bank &
YMCA card
added

32. Waxing the floors May 11, 2005

33. Jim Yates
hanging last
piece of
burlap
January 28,
2006

45. Robert Mitchell chair before conservation

47. Mitchell chair 1316 Calder music room

48. Robert
Mitchell
leather chair
ca. 1900
before
conservation

49. Mitchell leather chair before conservation

50. leather fringe & pigskin before

51. Billiard room balcony Summer 2005

52. Cleaning and
consolidating
leather in situ
Jan-Mar 2006

53. Robert Mitchell Turkish Chair ca. 1895

55. Installing
pictures and
runners
March 2006

56. November 2, 2006

57. Photo of
William
McFaddin
from
scrapbook
reproduced
for billiard
room

60. Brunswick, Balke & Collender
Provided the complete “outfit” ca. 1906

61. Billiard Room 2006

62. Billiard Room from balcony 2006

63. P. Haas & Sohne Cuckoo clock before restoration

64. P. Haas & Sohne Cuckoo clock after restoration

65. W.P.H. McFaddin’s home office

66. Hurricane Rita
delays
restoration

67. Hurricane Rita hits Beaumont
Sept 23-24, 2005

68. William Perry Herring McFaddin, Jr
“Perry” 1897-1973
Beaumont High 1913
Rice Institute 1917
Navy in World War I 1918
Operated the McFaddin ranches
in Texas and Arkansas
Married Amizetta White of
Huntington, WV 1926
President Coastal Cattle Assoc.
1934-1949

72. Original green
wallpaper and
Bradbury &
Bradbury
reproduction

73. East bedroom washstand March 2006

74. Kimball & Chappell brass bed & Simmons springs

76. Shop of the Crafters

77. East bedroom March 28, 2006

79. “Sanitary sea
gull paper”
found behind
medicine
cabinet

80. Sanitary sea
gull paper
described by
Sherwin-
Williams
1910

84. ca. 1910 bathroom

88. Front Hall Dec 1983

91. Front Hall
Hanging
March 16, 2006
paper
January 25,
2006

92. AN EVENING
AT THE
MCFADDIN-WARD HOUSE
April 5, 2006
The McFaddin-Ward House welcomed
museum professionals from the
Texas Association of Museums and
Louisiana Association of Museums to
preview the third floor.

93. Swinger
clock base
identified...

95. Clock
exhibited in
Visitor
Center

96. Research

97. Docent Training
Why is the
Remington Auto
loader hung
upside down?

98. Docent Refresher Course
DAY 2
8:30 a.m. Coffee, etc.
9:00 Overview of third floor emphasizing
usage of themes in space
9:30 Room study of third floor
10:00 Team development of room interpretation
using three themes
11:00 Back to VC for discussion of operational
issues and other topics
12:00 Dismissal
First course July 24-25, 2006

99. Docent Training
Once again the ______THE______
manual McFADDIN-WARD
_____HOUSE_____
Historic House Museum
was updated.
The 2006 DOCENT TRAINING MANUAL
Compiled by
version now McFaddin-Ward House Staff
Originally Produced
includes the 1988
Revisions
1992
third floor. 1996
2002
2004
2005
2006
This copy has been issued to
____________________________________
1906 McFaddin Avenue * Mail: 725 Third Street * Beaumont, TX 77707-1629
409-832-1906 * TTY: 409-833-7844 * FAX: 409-832-3483
Web Site: www.mcfaddin-ward.org

100. Docent Refresher Course
Veteran docents
receive training
for the new third
floor.

101. Perry, WPH and
Caldwell invite
you up to their
world