Extol Magazine

FEB-MAR 2015

Extol Magazine Celebrating Southern Indiana is a local publication that covers stories about businesses people places or events throughout the cities of New Albany Jeffersonville Clarksville Sellersburg and Louisville KY

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If you have driven down Main Street in New Albany, I am sure you have seen the grandest of mansions – towering over 50 feet – with its warm, buttery pumpkin hue. Te sign out front reads, "A Masterpiece of Victorian Artistry," but I doubt you noticed. If you are anything like me, you were too busy straining your neck, looking up at the majestic structure that is Culbertson Mansion. Recently, I arrived at the corner of Main and Tenth Streets to meet Site Manager Jessica Stavros for a guided tour. Culbertson is one of 11 nationally registered historic sites and is an Indiana State Museum. Tours are given every hour, on the hour; I had just enough time to look down to navigate the front steps to the grand porch and ring the doorbell. Tere is a sign posted on the porch asking patrons to ring the bell only once. It states that the house is quite large, so it could take a moment for someone to answer the door. I did not mind the wait and went back to looking up and admiring the fresco painting of a nature scene with a red cardinal on the ceiling of the porch. If I knew this was a tiny pre-cursor to what I was about to see inside of the mansion, I would have brought my travel neck pillow. BY STACY THOMAS Photographs by Tony Bennett 16 EXTOL • 2|15

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