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For the sixth annual Parlor Music Concert, the Seward House Museum is pleased to rekindle a partnership with the Eastman School of Music and welcome soprano soloist Cecile Saine. From the magnificent setting of the Museum’s Drawing Room, and enhanced by its 1872 Steinway piano, Saine’s tour-de-force performance will transport listeners across the musical landscape of the 19th century. All are welcome to join her for a wine and dessert reception after the concert.

Tours at 10:30 & 11:30.

Join us for First Friday reception - enjoy complimentary refreshments, and a contemporary art exhibit by Christy Lemp!

Tours at 6:00 & 7:00 pm.

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and to the gates of Fort Hill Cemetery, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories of have been added for 2017, so you won’t want to miss the eerie experience!

Tours at 6:00 & 7:00 pm.

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and to the gates of Fort Hill Cemetery, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories of have been added for 2017, so you won’t want to miss the eerie experience!

Tours at 6:00 & 7:00 pm.

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and to the gates of Fort Hill Cemetery, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories of have been added for 2017, so you won’t want to miss the eerie experience!

Tours at 6:00 & 7:00 pm.

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and to the gates of Fort Hill Cemetery, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. A batch of new terrifying-yet-true stories of have been added for 2017, so you won’t want to miss the eerie experience!

Tours at 6:00 & 7:00 pm.

Costumed guides take guests around the Seward House grounds and to the gates of Fort Hill Cemetery, sharing chilling tales of Victorian funeral practices, spectral encounters from Seward family lore, grizzly true crime stories, and other spooky accounts drawn from local folklore and history. A batch of new, terrifying-yet-true stories of have been added for 2017, so you won’t want to miss this eerie experience!

In the autumn of 1838 Washington Irving visited Auburn, where he was a guest of the Seward family. The author was also a celebrity, famed for his 1820 short story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was fast becoming a popular staple of the All Hallow’s Eve season. In that tradition, children and their parents are invited to get into the Halloween spirit with a dramatic reading of “Sleepy Hollow” by Mr. Seward’s daughter, Fanny.

The scale of death wrought by the Civil War changed the ways Americans grieved for their lost loved ones. The Victorian generation posed for photographs with the dead and kept memento mori, physical mementos from the bodies of the deceased. They also developed a culture of funereal rites that strike the modern observer as dark and morbid.

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