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Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum’s “A Home for the Holidays”

10:53AM / Friday, November 21, 2008
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LENOX, Mass. - Sunday, December 7, from 2 pm to 5 pm, marks the opening of Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum’s “A Home for the Holidays” festivities that evoke a Victorian holiday celebration. The manor house will be beautifully decorated and will host a number of special events to enliven the season.

A “mini” adaptation of the Nutcracker Ballet will be performed by the American Dance Institute of Pittsfield.

Now that more rooms of the mansion are restored, more will be elaborately decorated. The library, for example, will become the scene of a special Christmas tree decorated with charming Gilded Style ornaments handmade by Ventfort Hall’s American Girl participants. Fabulous railroad trains from the collection of Roger Rochelo, including a gleaming 10-foot Polar Express engine, will be on display.

The dining room will be the setting of a Christmas dinner party circa 1893, as if the owners, George and Sarah Morgan with family members, will enter at any minute. Country Dining Room Antiques of Great Barrington will provide the Victorian table settings.

The decorating team of the Ventfort Hall Flower Ladies will provide glorious holiday decorations throughout the mansion.

Visitors are also encouraged to view Les Petites Dames de Mode (The Little Ladies of Fashion), 60 exquisite, 29-inch tall mannequins dressed in the fashions of the Victorian and Edwardian era, each a work of art created by John Burbidge, retired senior designer of Priscilla of Boston.

And there will be more: A Victorian Tea, cocoa, hot mulled cider and lots of other goodies. Holiday shoppers will have the opportunity to take advantage of a 10% discount in the Museum Shop.

“A Home for the Holidays” at the mansion will continue through mid-January of 200, with all the exhibits and decorations open for viewing throughout the period.

Admission is $15 for members, $18 for non-members and $7 for children under 12. For reservations call Ventfort Hall at 413-637-3206. The mansion is located at 104 Walker Street in Lenox.

Ventfort Hall will continue its winter tour hours, weekdays 10 am to 5 pm for self-guided tours and weekends for guided tours from 10 am to 3 pm. For weekends and weekdays during Christmas week from December 26 to December 31, there will be fully guided tours also from 10 am to 3 pm. The last tour begins at 2 pm.  

An Official Project of Save America’s Treasures, Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum offers tours of the historic mansion, as well as lectures, concerts, teas, theater and other programs. This elegant Elizabethan-Revival Berkshire “cottage,” listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is open to the public year-around and is available for private rental. Built in 1893 for George and Sarah Morgan (sister of the financier, J. P. Morgan), Ventfort Hall has undergone substantial restoration, which continues.
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