The Harding Museum was a great small museum. Our Cub Scout troop visited the museum several times. It was filled with Suits of Armor, antique weapons, and model ships. A childhood delight.
The building was built as a Gothic Revival stone turret, complete with cannonballs embedded in the exterior walls. Harding spent several months each year in Europe, eagerly scouting out new prizes, buying from dealers and sometimes directly from noble families. Soon, his “castle museum” contained armor that had once belonged to Austrian emperors, the royal house of Saxony, the Russian czars, the princes of Liechtenstein and Radziwill, and the English royal family. Following his death in 1939, his museum remained open for several decades, until the castle was demolished during an urban renewal project.
The museum was moved to a storage warehouse and taken from public view. Extensive litigation followed. The collection was finally transferred to the Art Institute in 1982, fulfilling Harding’s initial intention to offer the collection to the public of Chicago.
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