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More than 200 people attended a recent fundraiser for the Architectural Heritage Center, a nonprofit museum owned and operated by the Bosco-Milligan Foundation.

Guests were served dinner and wine, and bid on both silent and live auctions. Approximately $120,000 was raised, minus expenses, according to the museum’s managing director, Holly Chamberlain.

鈥淲e had about 175 items for the silent auction and 20 items for the live auction,鈥� she said.

The top prize was a home renovation package from Portland design-build company WILLCO, Chamberlain said. However, many other businesses contributed items and services.

Val Ballestrem, education manager for the center, said that most of the dollars raised will go into the nonprofit’s general fund with some devoted to programs such as tours and exhibits. More information is available at .

The center’s next walking tour will be Nov. 7, from 10 a.m. to noon. It will showcase the Piedmont and Walnut Park areas, and show examples of Queen Anne, Arts and Crafts, Byzantine, Jacobean and Prairie styles, according to the website.

The center’s current exhibit, 鈥淪trength, Utility and Beauty: Architectural Metal in the Gilded Age,鈥� features nearly 2,000 metal artifacts used in Portland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many were produced locally, and were built to last, Ballestrem said.

One artifact is a six-foot wooden carving of a lute with ivy covering that formerly was installed beneath the cornice of the old Allen Music store 鈥� where the World Trade Center is now near the foot of Salmon Street.

The next program hosted by the center will be a lecture: 鈥淎ncient Walls: Structural and Decorative Stone in Downtown Portland Architecture.鈥� It will take place Nov. 10, at 7 p.m., at the center 鈥� 701 S.E. Grand St.

The museum sponsors only one major exhibit per year, and the next one will focus on the history of Portland’s many former door and window manufacturers, Ballestrem said.

鈥淲e will display an amazing collection of stained glass and leaded glass windows and also talk about window manufacturing, which was big business in Portland in the last (of the) 19th and early 20th centuries,鈥� he said. 鈥淔or us it’s a story that hasn’t been told before. In fact, we had companies all over town called fashion door companies that made all sorts of windows, from plain to fancy Povey Brothers stained glass.鈥�

Povey Brothers Studio operated from 1888 to 1928 and was known as 鈥渢he Tiffany of the West,鈥� producing windows for homes, churches and commercial buildings throughout the West. The new exhibit will open next spring.