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Skinner Museum in snow. On Woodbridge Street, just north of the campus, is the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum, owned and operated by the college. The main building, open to the public, was originally the Congregational church in Prescott, Massachusetts. When that town was flooded due to the creation of the Quabbin Reservoir, Skinner bought the 1846 building and moved it to South Hadley. It became his personal museum, housing his wide-ranging collection of American and European furniture, decorative arts, crafts, tools, and geological specimens. At Skinner's death in 1946, the museum became the property of the College. The other three buildings, including a charming schoolhouse from the Quabbin, are closed to the public but their exteriors are architecturally interesting.