Sandwich Glass Museum
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Sandwich Glass Museum is a museum in Massachusetts, at a recorded elevation of 6 m. Manomet Hill stands 114 m to the north-northwest, 13 miles off. The nearest named place is Town Hall Square, a park less than a tenth of a mile away. Old King's Highway (Route 6A) passes 0.3 miles off.
The story
Sandwich Glass Museum is a town history museum in Sandwich, Massachusetts, featuring a wide range of rare glass, including Victorian era glass manufactured by the now defunct local Boston & Sandwich Glass Factory, founded in Sandwich by Deming Jarves in 1825. The Sandwich Glass Works primarily manufactured pressed lead-based glass, and was known for its use of color. The museum also has a live glass blower, exhibits detailing the creation and coloring of various types of rare glass, as well as rotating exhibits of contemporary studio glass art from local and regional artists. It has a furnace for clear glass heated to 2200 deg F that it runs 24x7 that shuts down only once every five years, and a computerized annealing oven to slowly cool down new creations over a full day to help prevent cracking. Live demonstrations of the craft of glassblowing are held every hour on the hour and last for 15 minutes. The demonstrations include glass-blowing, shaping, mold-forming and adding bits of glass color known as frit. The objects created during the demo change day to day, influenced by the time of year and nearby holidays. The museum also has a historical movie that plays once per hour, as well as a series of galleries each focused on a time period or glass creation techniques. There is a shop at the end featuring contemporary studio glass, primarily from regional artists, as well as museum-created items.
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Dates from 1907.
Wikidata Q18157734, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Elevation
- 6 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 0.3 mi off the Old King's Highway (Route 6A), National
Named places within 25 miles
- Town Hall Square: 0.0 mi
- Mill Creek Park: 0.0 mi
- Cape Cod Canal Access: 0.9 mi
- Keith Field: 2.3 mi
- North Sagamore Playground: 3.0 mi
- Hoxie House: 0.3 mi
- Cape Cod Canal Visitor Center: 1.0 mi
- Wing Fort House: 2.0 mi
- Benjamin Nye Homestead and Museum: 4.1 mi
- Bourne Historical Society: 5.1 mi
- Hamilton Cr: 0.6 mi
- Sandwich Fish Hatchery: 0.7 mi
- Springhill Beach: 1.3 mi
- Scusset Beach Rd Parcel: 1.7 mi
- Freeman Property: 2.1 mi
- Faunces Mountain: 0.7 mi
- Town Neck Hill: 0.7 mi
- Elephantback Hill: 0.9 mi
- Mt. Perry: 1.7 mi
- Sagamore Hill: 1.8 mi
- Town Neck Beach: 1.1 mi
- Town Beach: 1.1 mi
- Springhill Brook: 1.4 mi
- Scusset Beach: 1.9 mi
- Springhill Beach: 2.4 mi
- Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument: 0.0 mi
- Samuel M. Beale, Jr, M.D.: 0.5 mi
- Sagamore Hill Trail: 1.5 mi
- Veterans Memorial: 5.3 mi
- Scott Rock: 6.3 mi
- The Green Briar Nature Center: 1.9 mi
- Green Briar Jam Kitchen: 1.9 mi
- Butterflies of Cape Cod: 3.3 mi
- Herring Run: 3.3 mi
- Cape Cod Airfield Biplane Rides: 7.0 mi
- Peaked Cliff: 4.0 mi
- Lookout Point: 5.6 mi
- Fullers Point: 6.1 mi
- Hog Island: 7.4 mi
- Salten Point: 10.5 mi
- Merchant Marine Memorial: 6.5 mi
- Tree of Bike: 8.7 mi
- Mercy Otis Warren: 10.8 mi
- James Otis Jr.: 10.9 mi
- Saint John Paul: 13.5 mi
- Hart Family Maze Garden: 0.7 mi
- The McGraw Family Garden of the Senses: 0.7 mi
- Herb Garden: 0.7 mi
- Donald Marvin Daylily Garden: 0.8 mi
- North American Hydrangea Test Garden: 0.8 mi
- truck pull-off: 5.9 mi
- Rest Area SR-25 Welcome Center: 5.9 mi
- truck pull-off: 6.2 mi
- Yarmouth Tourist Information Center: 12.0 mi
- truck pull-off: 14.3 mi
- Plymouth Light: 17.7 mi
- Pumphouse: 17.7 mi
- Nobska Point Light: 18.6 mi
- Fog Signal Building: 19.9 mi
- Oil House: 19.9 mi
- Herring Run Recreational Area: 3.3 mi
- Bourne Recreation Area: 4.6 mi
- Picnick Area: 24.6 mi
- Crystal Spring: 17.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 18.1 miles of Sandwich Glass Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manomet Hill | NNW 338° | 114 m | 12.5 mi |
| Pine Hills | NNW 340° | 95 m | 13.0 mi |
| Pine Hill | SW 224° | 93 m | 4.8 mi |
| Telegraph Hill | SSE 157° | 85 m | 1.9 mi |
| Monks Hill | NW 321° | 83 m | 18.0 mi |
| Flatrock Hill | W 262° | 82 m | 2.0 mi |
| Avery Hill | WSW 238° | 80 m | 3.5 mi |
| Discovery Hill | SE 145° | 77 m | 2.9 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 06:46 | 18:18 | 18:54 |
| June solstice | 05:08 | 19:39 | 20:21 |
| September equinox | 06:30 | 18:04 | 18:41 |
| December solstice | 07:07 | 15:30 | 16:15 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 29 | 31 | 36 | 46 | 56 | 64 | 70 | 69 | 62 | 52 | 43 | 36 |
| Precip in | 4.9 | 4.0 | 5.3 | 4.6 | 3.9 | 4.1 | 3.8 | 3.0 | 3.9 | 5.3 | 4.7 | 5.6 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — E Sandwich, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
OpenStreetMapWikidataOfficial siteOpenStreetMap element way/215936689
Day trips start here
- Wareham · 11 mi
- Marion · 14 mi
- Carver · 16 mi
- Rochester · 17 mi
- Mattapoisett · 18 mi
- SouthCoast · 20 mi
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