Hayes Home Holidays
Category: Events
Date & Time: Friday, December 20, 2024. 5:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Event Description
Enjoy a special, Civil War themed evening tour of the historic house of President Rutherford and First Lady Lucy Hayes during Hayes Home Holidays, offered two nights in December.
Guests will be treated to festive stories centered around Civil War soldiers on furlough from service for the holiday or unable to leave camp and will be able to interact with costumed reenactors.
Participants will enjoy a comforting cup of wassail, a hot spiced cider that was a popular holiday drink during the Victorian era, and cookies. They will also meet a surprise guest.
Tours are Friday, Dec. 20, and Saturday, Dec. 21. Tours begin at 5 p.m. and end at 9 p.m. with the final tour departing at 8 p.m.
The home will be lightly decorated for the holidays in a historically accurate manner. Before tours, guests can enjoy the “Hayes Train Special” model train display in the museum auditorium.
Tickets for non-members are $18 for adults ages 19 and older, $10 for kids 6-18 and free for kids 5 and younger. Tickets for Hayes Presidential members are $15 for adults 19 and older, $8 for ages 6 -18 and free for kids 5 and younger.
Tickets are available below. Members will need to log in to receive their discount.
NOTE ON TICKETING: If the system only lets you choose a certain number of tickets, such as two, that means only two tickets are available on that particular tour.
This event is part of A Presidential Christmas, a series of holiday events at the Hayes Presidential Library & Museums. A Presidential Christmas is sponsored by GEM, Inc. Partial funding for A Presidential Christmas is by Wright Leather Works. 
Hayes Presidential is America’s first presidential library and the forerunner of the federal presidential library system. It is partially funded by the state of Ohio and affiliated with the Ohio History Connection. The Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is located at Spiegel Grove at the corner of Hayes and Buckland avenues.
For information, call 419-332-2081, or visit rbhayes.org. Like HPLM on Facebook at @rbhayespres and follow on Twitter and Instagram at @rbhayespres.