Designed to fit in with the many historical nineteenth-century buildings at Mystic Seaport, the museum’s MIldred C. Mallory Building was erected in 1963 using stone from a house in the Fort Rachel area of Mystic that had been destroyed in the 1938 hurricane. Serving as Mystic Seaport’s members’ lounge and membership office, the building named for Mildred C. Mallory (1897-1961) as a memorial to honor her efforts for the museum’s membership program. The first floor is covered with granite ashlar and the second floor with clapboards.
Also at Mystic seaport are connected buildings named for Clifford D. Mallory and Philip R. Mallory, who were instrumental in the development of the museum as trustees. The original gambrel-roofed building (pictured in a postcard above) was built in 1948, while the Greek Revival-style wing (also pictured above) was built in 1969. The Mallory family were sailmakers, ship builders and yachtsmen. Nearby is Mystic Seaport’s Treworgy Planetarium (pictured below), built in 1959 and expanded in the 1960s.
