Upstairs Downstairs Tour - First Friday Evening
Friday, May 3, 2013 - 7 pm
Step back in time to discover the challenges and enjoyments of Victorian women across all socio-economic levels. Guests will be greeted at the door by a maid who will conduct the below stairs tour. Upstairs, the lady of the house will guide visitors. Enjoy champagne and light comestibles and take home an authentic Victorian cookie and recipe. Space is limited: make reservations for this exciting tour today. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Lecture – Mrs. Goodfellow, The Story of America’s First Cooking School
Saturday, May 18, 2013
2 pm
In Philadelphia during the first decades of the 19th century, a widow, Mrs. Goodfellow, ran a popular bakery and sweet shop. In addition to catering to Philadelphia's wealthy families, her business stood out because she ran a small school to teach the art of cooking, the first of its kind in America. Mrs. Goodfellow did not keep a journal and never published any of her recipes so we have to rely on her students, most notably Eliza Leslie, publiser of the Victorian era's most popular cookbooks. Don't miss this opportunity. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Old Fashioned Picnic
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Noon to 3 pm
Juggler, croquet, Victorian photos, face painting, scavenger hunt, Industrial Revolution gadgets, hot dogs, ice cream, ring toss.
FREE – pay as you go for activities
Upstairs Downstairs Tour – First Friday Evening
Friday, July 5, 2013 – 7 pm
Step back in time to discover the challenges and enjoyments of Victorian women across all socio-economic levels. Guests will be greeted at the door by a maid who will conduct the below stairs tour. Upstairs, the lady of the house will guide visitors. Enjoy champagne and light comestibles and take home an authentic Victorian cookie and recipe. Space is limited: make reservations for this exciting tour today. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Upstairs Downstairs Tour – First Friday Evening
Friday, August 2, 2013 – 7 pm
Step back in time to discover the challenges and enjoyments of Victorian women across all socio-economic levels. Guests will be greeted at the door by a maid who will conduct the below stairs tour. Upstairs, the lady of the house will guide visitors. Enjoy champagne and light comestibles and take home an authentic Victorian cookie and recipe. Space is limited: make reservations for this exciting tour today. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Victorian Era Play
Henrik Ibsen’s - A Doll’s House
Friday, August 16, 2013 – 7 pm
Saturday, August 17, 2013 – 2 pm and 7 pm
Sunday, August 18, 2013 – 2 pm and 7 pm
This August, the Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion will present Henrik Ibsen's Victorian theater masterpiece: A Doll's House. On a fateful Christmas in 1879, Nora Helmer finds herself being blackmailed, and discovers that her marriage may not be what it seems. A Doll's House was hugely controversial when it was first produced for advocating women's rights, and our site-specific production set in the Mansion's parlor will be unlike any you've ever seen.
Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861 Visa and MasterCard accepted
Reservations required
Upstairs Downstairs Tour – First Friday Evening
Friday, September 6, 2013 – 7 pm
Step back in time to discover the challenges and enjoyments of Victorian women across all socio-economic levels. Guests will be greeted at the door by a maid who will conduct the below stairs tour. Upstairs, the lady of the house will guide visitors. Enjoy champagne and light comestibles and take home an authentic Victorian cookie and recipe. Space is limited: make reservations for this exciting tour today. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Upstairs Downstairs Tour – First Friday Evening
Friday, October 4, 2013 – 7 pm
Step back in time to discover the challenges and enjoyments of Victorian women across all socio-economic levels. Guests will be greeted at the door by a maid who will conduct the below stairs tour. Upstairs, the lady of the house will guide visitors. Enjoy champagne and light comestibles and take home an authentic Victorian cookie and recipe. Space is limited: make reservations for this exciting tour today. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Murder Mystery
Twisted Murder: A Dickensian Mystery
Oliver Twist has been murdered and Charles Dickens must enlist the aid of his characters to find the culprit. Join us in a mad pursuit through the pages of Dickens to solve this very Dickensian mystery. Click here to purchase your tickets today for this extraordinary Murder Mystery Live Theater presentation.
Reservations required. Click here to purchase tickets.
Upstairs Downstairs Tour - First Friday Evening - Friday, December 6, 2013 - 7 pm
Step back in time to discover the challenges and enjoyments of Victorian women across all socio-economic levels. Guests will be greeted at the door by a maid who will conduct the below stairs tour. Upstairs, the lady of the house will guide visitors. Enjoy champagne and light comestibles and take home an authentic Victorian recipe. Space is limited; make reservations for this exciting tour today. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
Dickens Christmas Party
Saturday, December 14, 2013 - 2 to 5 pm
Visit the Mansion decorated in holiday splendor to hear Christmas readings from Louisa May Alcott, Charles Dickens and the Ghost of Christmas present. Children have the opportunity to create Christmas cards and wrap gifts purchased in the Mansion gift shop. Luscious cookies and Victorian punch served.
An Evening with Charles Dickens
Saturday, December 14, 2013 - 7 pm
Enjoy Philadelphia actor Josh Hitchens one-man-show of Dickens Christmas story: A Cricket in the Hearth. Philadelphia’s Dickens Ambassador, Edward G. Pettit will give a brief talk about Dickens and his Christmas stories. Click here for reservations or call 215-438-1861. Visa and MasterCard accepted.
Reservations required
The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion is a 17-room home that appears on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion thanks the Pennsylvania Historic and Museum Commission for general operating funds received in 2009. These funds help support wonderful events and workshops at the Mansion.
