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Whether you are coming for Garden Clean-Up or not, grab a cup of hot coffee and enjoy a brisk spring walk through the Seward House gardens with Director of Education Jeff Ludwig. Jeff will lead a newly-designed walking tour through the historic Seward family grounds, revealing untold stories and describing Mr. Seward’s vision of Romanticism for his sprawling acres. In his commitment to “wild nature,” Seward hoped to create a space of refuge and tranquility, apart from the travails of his political career. 

 

This event is free & open to the public.

A perfect Mother’s Day event for Grandmothers, mothers, aunts, nieces, and daughters of all ages. Join Frances and Fanny Seward for tea and light picnic luncheon on the south porch of the Seward House. Your costumed hostesses will regale you with stories from one of the great mother-daughter relationships in history while serving a variety of Victorian-inspired refreshments. After the tea, the Seward women lead a special tour of their home.   

Admission: Member $15, General Public $20
This event is sold out.

This event will take place at the Carriage House Theater (203 Genesee St.)

Join us for a First Friday Community Event! The Seward House Museum is pleased to welcome SAMMY award winning singer Mark Nanni to our garden stage. Nanni has been working as a musician in the Central New York region for 25 years. He is a member of the Jess Novak Band and Grateful Dead tribute band Dark Hollow, as well as leader of his jazz group The Intention.

In the last few years perhaps more than at any time since the Civil War, monuments to Confederate leaders have become the focus of angry debate, resulting in violence in some American cities. President Trump's famously divisive remarks about protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia objecting to the removal of a statue to Robert E. Lee have triggered as much controversy, arguably, as any single incident of his presidency. But do Americans fully comprehend what the Confederacy represented, when taking sides on this hot issue?

Tours begin at 10:30 & 11:30.

Illustrated by extant garments from the Seward House Museum and the Cornell Costume & Textile Collection, this lecture by Professor Denise Green of Cornell University will chronicle changes in women's fashion and beauty standards during the 19th Century.  The "ideal" female body changed dramatically between 1800 - 1900: from the empire waist and unbounded silhouette of the first two decades, to increasing corsetry and petticoats and eventually large hooped skirts and crinolines of the mid-century, to the bustles of the 1870s and 1880s, and culmi

The Seward House Museum is partnering with the National Park Service for our April First Friday event. Kimberly Szewczyk of the NPS will be on hand to promote the Park's Junior Ranger program and provide updates on National Park Service developments in the Central New York region. In addition, visitors will be welcome to view our new exhibit - Emancipating Equality: Prominent Women in the Lives of the Seward Family. Complementary refreshments will be provided.

This event is free and open to the public.

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