The Old Governors Mansion

The Old Governors Mansion from the center of our State was moved about 200 miles last summer to a new location. It was replaced by a new governors mansion so had no purpose at its old location. This is how it looks now. What a beautiful sight and what a gorgeous huge mansion now ready to be used for numerous fund raisers, parties and actives.

Yesterday, Saturday Nov 3rd was a free open house and fund raiser to start off the Toy's For Tots contributions. The mansion has already been decorated for Christmas and was the perfect Saturday morning activity for one of my good friends and I.

We certainly did enjoy the very interesting, informative tour and also the many fund raising booths set up to stem our interest. This is toward the left as we came in, it was the former living room for the many governors who lived in this home since 1936. The colors are all kept as close to what they actually were for most of the years of occupancy. I love this mauve color and the pink accent curtains in the below photo.

This was upstairs. There are at least 6 bedrooms of which we only saw 4. The bedroom at the end of the hall was not open to tour since it belonged to the new occupants of the mansion, a Dr. and his wife. Another bedroom has been turned into a office.
My friend and I both enjoyed seeing the beautiful bedrooms and the old elegant chandeliers. It was a fun time even if it was a last minute Saturday morning plan!

This original carpet had actually started down stairs in the mauve formal living room but it wasn't long until they realized that white wasn't the color for such a active area. It was moved up to this bedroom.

This is the tour guide talking to my good friend.

He also was the one who put together all the Christmas decorations.

Another bedroom, the quilts were absolutely lovely and everything so well coordinated and decorated.

This was the third bedroom we saw, I did not get a picture of the 4th bedroom. Notice the elegant lace curtains in all the bedrooms. I used to work for Spiegel Catalog call center for 12 years and these quilts, furniture and lace curtains look like many in that catalog.

Another old original Chandelier. I would imagine all these elegant Chandelier's and light fixtures had to removed during the long move and replaced after this huge building was placed on its new foundation.

The decorations were so very beautiful.
To the right you can see a large mirror with garland, ribbons and Christmas balls.

This nicely decorated fireplace is at the end of the formal living room.

This wall of Governor portraits shows all the Governors who lived in this mansion. There is another wall with portraits of the Governors who did not live in this mansion. Our currant Governor's portrait is not up yet. He did live in this home for over a year. We were told the portraits are done at the end of their term. I hope you enjoyed this tour through the eyes of my camera. It of course is much better to view it in person.