Fun facts: Quincy Art Center
The Carriage House
The beautiful historic carriage house was designed in 1887 by Joseph Lyman Silsbee, a prominent Chicago architect, and made marvelous studio space in which artists could teach and work.
The Quincy Art Center began its life on January 23, 1923, when a group of local women created the Quincy Art Club, which proposed “to foster the aesthetic needs of Quincy and develop among her citizens an appreciation of Art in its broad and universal sense as applied to life.”
Beginnings
In 1932, the Art Center leased from the Quincy Park District the carriage house behind the Lorenzo Bull mansion at 16th and Maine Streets and established what was to become its permanent home.