At Home with the Tredwells: A 19th Century Christmas

Fri Nov 23, 2018 - Sun Jan 6, 2019
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Repeating every week — Sundays, Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through January 7, 2019.
Various times
Age: All
Price: Included with General Admission. Reservations not required.
Location:
Merchant's House Museum
212 777 1089
29 East Fourth Street, New York, NY,
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Discover how many of our modern holiday traditions, from table-top Christmas trees, to presents and stockings, Christmas carols and songs (and Santa Claus, too) originated in mid-19th century New York.

Step back in time to the 1850s and join Seabury and Eliza Tredwell as they celebrate the season with elaborate holiday parties, festive food, and gift giving. Their elegant parlors are decorated with swags of evergreens, brilliant holly berries, white mistletoe, and red-leafed poinsettias – and a table top tree festooned with ribbons and candles. In the kitchen, the Irish servants are preparing the plum pudding, shucking the oysters, and readying the punch bowl. Upstairs in the bedrooms, the gifts for relatives and friends are set out and the Tredwell daughters are dressing in their finest silks.

Thursdays 12-8pm
Fridays-Mondays 12-5pm
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