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Due to a large pre-scheduled group, the 10am tour will be cancelled.

Join museum staff and volunteers in planting and tending to flower beds, garden spaces, and the majestic grounds!

Join us for a First Friday Community Event! The Seward House Museum is pleased to welcome Taryn Surprenant to perform in the historic gardens.  Taryn is a singer-songwriter from the mountains of Upstate NY who creates a style of folk that incorporates alternative and blues-infused undertones beneath a carefully crafted narrative. Paired with strong vocals that flow in waves over minimalistic guitar progressions, her lyrics speak to the beauty found within the caverns and chasms of human experience and emotion.

Pitch in with museum staff and volunteers in preparing the grounds for autumn! Join museum staff and volunteers in planting and tending to flower beds, garden spaces, and the majestic grounds of the Seward House Museum!  Led by Facilities Manager Mitch Maniccia, volunteers step into the historical grounds and help maintain the lush gardens which the Sewards held so dear.     

This event will be held at the Carriage House Theater.

In the summer of 1906 the entire country found itself caught in the grips of a stunning murder case: Chester Gillette's brutal killing of his romantic partner on Big Moose Lake in the Adirondacks. That story, followed by Gillette's subsequent trial, became the basis of Theodore Dreiser's famous novel, An American Tragedy, as well as the film, A Place in the Sun. It was a story that ended in Auburn, with Gillette's imprisonment and execution at Auburn Prison.

The fabulous and fascinating artwork of the Seward House moves from the backdrop to the foreground in this art-centric expanded tour. Learn how aesthetics framed the world - and home - of the Seward family, as well as which artists and art movements caught their eyes.

 

Admission: Members $10, General Public $15
Reservations Suggested

Join Luisa Casella from West Lake Conservators who will address several aspects of understanding and caring for personal and family photograph collections. Her program will also include a brief history of the evolution of photographic processes and presents physical characteristics of different materials as well as key preservation measures that are easy to put in place and promote the preservation of family heirlooms.

 

This event is free and open to the public.

Join museum staff and volunteers in planting and tending to flower beds, garden spaces, and the majestic grounds!

Bring your lunch and learn some history in the Seward House Museum gardens! Sociologist and Oneida Community Mansion House volunteer Tim McLean will explore why Central New York "burned over" with a passion for reform in the middle 19th century. This ferment manifested in movements around abolition, women's rights, and temperance. Some reformers even believed that society could be perfected with proper planning.

Whether it was during his time as Secretary of State or as a private tourist, William Seward was one of the first truly international travelers in American history. Take this specialty tour to discover more about his diplomatic legacy, as well as his personal experiences and foreign encounters abroad.

 

Admission: Members $10, General Public $15
Reservations Suggested

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