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The Seward House Museum is pleased to announce the 2021 Elsa Soderberg Distinguished Speaker: Dorothy Wickenden. Wickenden is the Executive Editor of The New Yorker, in addition to author of The Agitators. This book explores how three extraordinary women changed history and advanced the cause of equality. United by roots in Auburn, the friendship between Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances Seward led them together to "agitate" for abolition and women's rights. 

Due to our August First Friday event, the 4 o'clock tour is unavailable. 

Due to a pre-scheduled group the 11 o'clock tour is unavailable.

Due to a pre-scheduled group the 10 o'clock tour is unavailable.

The 4 o'clock tour is unavailable due to a previously scheduled event. 

Join us for our September First Friday event! We will be hosting Bob Keefe and the Surf Renegades in our gardens with artwork by Donna Nicholas in our gift shop. Refreshments will be provided and rooms in the Museum will be open for interpretation. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us for our August First Friday Event! We will be hosting multi-instrumentalist Kevin Dorsey in our gardens with art by Sally Stormon in our gift shop. Two rooms in the Museum will be open for interpretation and refreshments will be provided. We look forward to seeing you there!

Join us for July First Friday! We will be hosting Colleen Kattau & Dos XX performing what they like to call "Americaña, aka "gringa moves from the heart" in our gardens, and art by Bre Fleuff in our gift shop. Refreshments will be provided and one room in the Museum will be open for interpretation. We look forward to seeing you there!

As part of the Pathway Through History weekend come and see what is in bloom—history and flowers alike— at the Seward House gardens and grounds with Facilities Manager Mitch Maniccia. Mitch will lead a newly-designed walking tour through the historic landscape, describing the Seward’s vision of “wild nature” for their sprawling acres, and the changes made to the house and outbuildings during the 19th century.

The night of April 14th, 1865 is engrained in historic memory. From the coordinated attack that led to President Lincoln being shot and John Wilkes Booth making his way across the stage of Ford’s Theatre as he escaped DC, the vicious knife attack on Secretary of State William H. Seward, leaving him wounded along with four other victims, to the debated involvement of figures such as Mary Surratt and Dr. Samuel Mudd, the conspiracy targeting important officials of the United States Federal Government remains a point of intrigue for historical researchers and museum visitors alike.

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