{"id":108,"slug":"estate-whim-museum-frederiksted-u-s-virgin-islands","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["Whim is the curved — the 'great house' that's the '94's build, the 'ends bow' that's the shape's odd. The 'absentee' is the owned — the 'Mac Evoy' that's the planter's name, the 'Europe stayed' that's the lord's habit. The 'engine buried' is the found — the 'McOnie 1847' that's the mill's mark, the 'collapsed factory' that's the hide's cause.","The 'only interprets' is the lone — the 'Virgin Islands' that's the museum's scope, the 'enslaved told' that's the story's weight. The 'hurricane hurt' is the endangered — the '11 Most' that's the Trust's list, the 'roof failed' that's the storm's mark. Whim is the kept — the 'Landmarks leased' that's the care's form, the 'sugar era' that's the display's whole.","The file keeps Whim: the curved house, the absentee lord, the buried engine, and the endangered keep.","Estate Whim is the archive's Virgin Islands file — the only museum telling the sugar era whole."]},{"heading":"Why this file matters","paragraphs":["Estate Whim is the archive's Virgin Islands file — the plantation that kept its machines buried.","An estate keeps its weight — the file's suggestion being that Whim's hold is the told: the 'enslaved' that's the story's core, the 'buried engine' that's the found's odd, and the 'endangered' that's the storm's mark."]}],"name":"Estate Whim Museum","aliases":["Estate Whim Plantation"],"type":"PLANTATION_MUSEUM","type_label":"Plantation Museum","cats":["COLONIAL_HISTORY","RESTORED_RUINS"],"groups":["dark-history"],"desc":"Restored plantation complex interpreting St. Croix agricultural and community history.","full_desc":"Estate Whim Museum is a plantation museum in Frederiksted, U.S. Virgin Islands. Restored plantation complex interpreting St. Croix agricultural and community history. Ownership records begin in 1743; sugar displaced cotton by 1754. Landmarks Society assumed management of the core buildings in 1954 and restored the deteriorated property.","address":"52 Estate Whim","city":"Frederiksted","county":null,"state":"U.S. Virgin Islands","postal":null,"region":"Caribbean","lat":17.7119,"lon":-64.8831,"coord_kind":"MANUAL","status":"ACTIVE","access":"PUBLIC","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":"https://www.stcroixlandmarks.org/preservation/estate-whim-museum/","phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"History and restoration inclusion; no paranormal assertion made.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"MEDIUM","score":65,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.85,"historical_confidence":0.8,"source_quality":0.8,"paranormal_claim_provenance":null,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0.7,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[],"history":[{"description":"Ownership records begin in 1743; sugar displaced cotton by 1754. Landmarks Society assumed management of the core buildings in 1954 and restored the deteriorated property. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. This belongs to the verified spine of the entry, the layer everything else is measured against. 'History of Estate Whim' documents the entry. The record keeps it — history, not lore.","evidence":"HISTORICALLY_VERIFIED","date_start":null,"date_end":null,"confidence":null,"source":{"name":"History of Estate Whim","url":"https://www.stcroixlandmarks.org/history/estate-whim/","publisher":"St. Croix Landmarks Society","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}}],"legends":[],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"opening_hours":"Wednesday–Saturday and cruise ship days, 10 AM–3 PM.","admission_fee":"Published adult/age 13+ $10; children 6–12 $5; seniors 65+ $8.","tour_availability":"Interpretive guided tours described by the society.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-14T10:36:19+00:00","source":{"name":"Estate Whim Museum","url":"https://www.stcroixlandmarks.org/preservation/estate-whim-museum/","publisher":"St. Croix Landmarks Society","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Estate Whim Museum","url":"https://www.stcroixlandmarks.org/preservation/estate-whim-museum/","publisher":"St. Croix Landmarks Society","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2},{"name":"History of Estate Whim","url":"https://www.stcroixlandmarks.org/history/estate-whim/","publisher":"St. Croix Landmarks Society","type":"HISTORICAL_SOCIETY","authority":2}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":0,"history":1,"legends":0,"entities":0,"sources":2}}