The Old Depot Museum has new additions to its collection — a grocery store from Vicksburg’s past, and three remembering a legend from the era of sailing ships.

The three ship models are separate replicas of the British clipper Cutty Sark, which plied the trades from England to China in the mid-19th Century. The models were presented Wednesday to museum director Lamar Roberts by the daughter of Vicksburg resident Bill Stimac, who built the boats while he was in Europe working for Westinghouse Electric Corp.

Stimac and his wife recently moved to Michigan to be with their daughter, Roberts said.

Roberts on Saturday received a model of McInerneys Store, which once sat on the site now occupied by the Warren County Courthouse at Grove and Cherry streets.

McInerneys is the sixth model built over four years for the museum by Jackson resident Robin Burr. He called it “just another challenge Mr. Roberts gave me. And this was one, too. All we had was a picture of the building to go by.”

His other models include the Old Court House, the Balfour House, the Willis-Cowan House, which served as Pemberton’s Headquarters, the Martha Vick House, and the Shirley House, which are displayed at the museum. The Shirley House is part of the Siege of Vicksburg diorama.

It was the first of Burr’s models for the museum.

He said he visited the museum about four years ago when it was the Vicksburg Battlefield Museum on North Frontage Road and saw Roberts’ diorama of the Siege.

“I looked at the model of the Shirley House that he had, and it didn’t look correct. I offered to make him one that was accurate,” he said.

To build McInerneys, Burr and Roberts had to make calculations for the model’s scale based on estimates from measuring the spacing of the building’s windows and columns in the picture.

“On a model like this, you can use a little poetic license, because no one’s going to tell you, ‘That’s not right,’” Burr said.

He won’t be able to do that with his next commission, a model of Anchuca on First East Street. While Burr was at the museum, Anchuca owner Tom Pharr brought a set of the plantation’s plans and drawings to use in making the model.

Operated as a bed and breakfast and restaurant, Anchuca was built in 1830 and survived the Siege of Vicksburg in 1863.

“It was built in the Greek revival style,” Pharr said. “It’s a miracle it’s still here. It was hit 17 times during the Siege of Vicksburg. It was a shelter and it’s been broken into apartments.”

He said the mansion also is noted for a number of firsts, the city’s first bed and breakfast, first four-columned mansion and the first plantation home to open for public tours.

“I want Anchuca to be a part of the museum’s collection,” Pharr said. “Anchuca’s a necessary part of the city’s history.”