What part of the museum flooded?

Dozens of valuable paintings and frescoes were badly damaged when rainwater poured through a roof at the state museum. As freak rainstorms lashed in the central and southern sections of the state, part of the museum’s roof which was scheduled to be repaired collapsed and water cascaded into two storerooms.

Seventeenth-century houses in colonial North America were simple structures that were primarily functional, carrying over traditional designs that went back to the Middle Ages. During the first half of the eighteenth century, however, houses began to show a new elegance. As wealth increased, more and more colonists built fine houses.