{"id":1986,"date":"2025-04-16T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T18:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/?p=1986"},"modified":"2025-10-22T13:11:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T17:11:29","slug":"wakefield-scearce-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/wakefield-scearce-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Wakefield Scearce Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-header\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full post-header-img\"><a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wakefield-Scearce-Gallery.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-gallery-rSmQyCVp\" data-magnific_type=\"image\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"573\" height=\"789\" src=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wakefield-Scearce-Gallery.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wakefield-Scearce-Gallery.jpg 573w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wakefield-Scearce-Gallery-218x300.jpg 218w, https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Wakefield-Scearce-Gallery-300x413.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 573px) 100vw, 573px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group post-header-info\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Wakefield Scearce Gallery<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On September 12th, 1949, the Wakefield Scearce Galleries held their grand opening in the old Science Hill Chapel, welcoming two thousand people from eleven states. It began as a dream for Mark Scearce and Mark Wakefield that became a reality after Mr. Scearce traveled to Europe for the acquisition of fine silver and antiques. Some notable items on display were a mahogany sideboard that had belonged to the Governor of Gilbraltar, a desk chair once owned by author George Bernard Shaw, and a printed map of the world from 1691, that depicted California as an island.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wakefield Scearce Gallery On September 12th, 1949, the Wakefield Scearce Galleries held their grand opening in the old Science Hill Chapel, welcoming two thousand people from eleven states. It began as a dream for Mark Scearce and Mark Wakefield that became a reality after Mr. Scearce traveled to Europe for the acquisition of fine silver <a href=\"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/2025\/04\/16\/wakefield-scearce-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Wakefield Scearce Gallery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"post_folder":[67],"class_list":["post-1986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-and-places"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1986"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5285,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1986\/revisions\/5285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1986"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shelbykyhistory.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=1986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}