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Holidays at the Fairmount Park Houses

December 2–13, 2009, 10:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
(closed Monday, December 7)
$5 adults, $3 seniors, $2 children aged 6–12
(member discount not valid for Holiday Tours)

Rediscover the holidays with a visit to Mount Pleasant and Cedar Grove and experience an eighteenth-century-style Yuletide. This year, both houses will be decorated for a wedding celebration, a common feature in early America during Christmastime.

Trolley transportation is available on Fridays, Saturdays, and Sundays to all the Fairmount Park Houses offering holiday tours. Information on how to make reservations >>

Park House School Programs

• Cedar Grove

  Cedar Grove was the family home for five generations of the Coates, Paschall, and Morris families of Philadelphia. Colonial Life at Cedar Grove is an interactive program for elementary students, grades 3–6. Students experience both work and leisure activities of the eighteenth century as they tour the house and garden. Thursdays, 10:00–11:20 a.m.

• Mount Pleasant

  Middle and high school students can participate in a new program, Discover Classical Architecture at Mount Pleasant, an eighteenth-century mansion in Fairmount Park. In this currently unfurnished home, students review the basic classical orders, observe craftsmen's tools, and learn about creating and designing a grand country home. Each student creates his or her own design for the "missing" mantel piece in the Upstairs Parlor. Tuesdays, 10:00–11:30 a.m.
  For more information on Park House School Programs, please contact Education School & Teacher Programs at (215) 684-7580, or by fax at (215) 236-4063, or by e-mail at .

For more information, please contact Visitor Services by phone at (215) 763-8100 or by e-mail at .