The Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society

  
     

Upcoming Events & Recent Activity:

2012 Antique Show date is now set - save the date for our 56th Annual Holiday Antique Show & Sale...get the details by clicking right here...

Read December news stories about the new home for "The Hospitality of St. Julian" painting...

December 7, 2011 News - Restored "Hospitality" painting to be loaned to St. Francis Cathedral in Green Bay on December 15...read about it...

November 18-19, 2011 - 55th Annual Antique Show & Sale...learn more...

May 24, 2011 - Step Back! Vintage Fashion Show...read about it & Buy a Keepsake DVD of the Event...

November 19-20, 2010 - 54th Annual Antique Show & Sale details

October 8, 2010 - Historic Artwork Unveiled! Read About the "Hospitality" & Kellogg Paintings Here...

Antiquarian Society - In The News...

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Old Fort HowardIndian Landing DemingRufus B Kellogg Portrait

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Restoring Rufus B. Kellogg:
By: Tony Rajer (1952-2011), Art Conservator
Rufus B Kellogg PortraitRestoration of the portrait of this local icon is completed!
Click here for Kellogg restoration story.


Restoration of the Hospitality
By: Tony Rajer, Art Conservator
The Prodigal Son - restoration













The restoration of this  beautiful work of art (Green Bay,Wisconsin version)
 "The Hospitality of St. Julian" (c.1615) by Cristofano Allori (1527-1621) has been completed by the expert"Art Doctor" Tony Rajer (1952-2011).

To learn more about the late Mr. Rajer's work on this piece, as well as the Rufus B. Kellogg portrait restoration, including videos, photographs, and local news stories devoted to these projects, please click the following links:

Prodigal Son-Rufus Kellogg Restoration Page




Founded in 1923, we are a “one of a kind” non-profit organization** that supports regional historical museums and sites by providing grant monies for preservation and restoration of cultural artifacts.

An Annual Antique Show and Sale fundraiser is held each November to support this endeavor, as well as supporter donations and other fundraisers, such as the Step Back! Vintage Fashion Show, Pictorial History, & Society History Event held in May of 2011 (DVD's of this historical Fashion & History Show are available - order here).

We also own over 260 local, regional and national treasures that are placed in local historical buildings and museums, such as antique furniture, textiles, paintings, lighting fixtures, china, silver and objects of art.

Explore Our Photo Galleries

Discover the restoration we do for our historic community. Learn about the treasures we own. View our 2009 Antique Show and Sale Gallery and The Antiquarian Heritage Collection.

The Society purchased this entire art collection from the Brown County Library for $1.2 million dollars through the 2007 Community Save Our Cultural Heritage Campaign. By doing so, we retained them for this community.

Spirit of the North West The Spirit of the Northwest

The statue of the three men to the left is called "The Spirit of the Northwest".

This beautiful statue was placed on the lawn of the Brown County Court House in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. The sculptor, Sidney Bedore, depicts the earliest beginnings of settlement in the Fox River Valley. The figures are Father Claude Allouez, who established St. Francis Xavier Mission on the R
apides des Peres, 1671; Nicolas Perrot, builder and commander of Fort St. Francis, 1684, and first Governor of Northwest Territory and an Outagamie, or Fox, Indian who held in the 18th century the Fox River and the surrounding country against French domination.

Our logo "Under Three Flags” symbolizes the territorial governance of this area:
Antiquarian Logo

1701 French Flag - Fort named St. Francis

1761 British Flag - Fort renamed Fort Edward Augustus

1816 American Flag - Fort renamed Fort Howard

Our Mission Statement

The aim and purpose of the Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society is to hold, purchase, preserve and acquire antiquities and real estate to perpetuate the history of the locality surrounding Green Bay and the State of Wisconsin.

**The Society is a 501c3 Organization accepting gifts, bequests and donations that support our mission.

For membership information and to become a member of the Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society, please begin by visiting Our Membership Page or contacting us.

To contact the Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society online - click right here and submit the short form and someone will be in touch with you as soon as possible.

**The Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society is a 501c3 charitable organization accepting gifts, bequests and donations that support our mission:  "To hold, purchase, preserve and acquire antiquities and real estate to perpetuate the history of the locality surrounding Green Bay and the State of Wisconsin".


Mailing address:
Green Bay & De Pere Antiquarian Society Inc.
P.O. Box 875
Green Bay, Wisconsin  54305-0875

   
   
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