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Date: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Time: 6:00pm program at BHPS, followed by dinner in the at the Indianapolis Propylaeum Club
Cost: $160.00 per couple; $150.00 per member couple - Individual Tickets also available. |
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Description: Join us this for a special evening event designed to delight the senses - Romance and Remembrance. We invite you to fall in love with the sights, sounds and words from the Victorian era. The event begins with a tour at the Harrison home focusing on our extensive art collection, including pieces that were painted by renowned Hoosier artists T.C. Steele and Jacob Cox.
Your docent led tour will highlight these and many other art treasures on a specially created tour focusing on the Harrison Site's art collection that leads you to the ballroom on the third floor where you will then enjoy live music and a reading of love letters between Caroline and Ben. The evening concludes with a gourmet four-course meal and wine.
Dinner Menu:
Italian Wedding Soup
Petite Fig and Walnut Salad
Steak Diane & Wild-Caught Salmon served with Roasted Red Potatoes and Spring Green Beans
Chocolate Ganache for dessert
Choice of Cabernet or Chardonnay
A perfect way to celebrate your love for each other or warm-up in winter with friends.
Email or call 317-631-1888 for more details or to make your reservation.
A President's Theatre production!
 
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Date: Monday, February 20,
2012
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $10.00 member adults; $12.00 adults; $5.00 students (ages 5 to 17) |
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 Description: Celebrate Presidents' Day at the President's Home! On this special day, your tour includes the opportunity to interact with family members and household staff, whose roles are recreated by exceptional actors. You'll have the chance to hear the conversations and gossip of the day in 1898 as you enter each room and find out more about what life was like after the President returned home from the White House.
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details.
A President's Theatre production!
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Date: TBD
Time: TBD
Cost: State House-free. Museum Tour-please refer to daily tour prices. |
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 Description: The Indiana Supreme Court and the Capitol Tour Office will, in conjunction with the Harrison Home, celebrate "Benjamin Harrison Day." Ed Myers, portraying President Harrison, will be in the Senate Chamber as students re-enact the Ex-Parte Milligan court case. If you are interested in attending the event at the State House, please contact Jennifer Hodge at the Indiana State House at (317) 233-9830 due to limited seating.
If you are interested in a tour of the Harrison Home museum that day or would like more information, please click here or contact the education staff at (317) 631-2717.
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Date: Weekends, April 20-21, 27-29, and May 4-5
Time: Friday and Saturday Curtain at 8:00pm; Sunday Matinee Curtain at 2:00pm
Cost: $20.00 per person; $16.00 members, seniors, students
(Call for great group rates and room buy-outs!) |
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 Description:
Victorian Theatre by Candlelight is back in April with Amusing Ambiguities
Join the Victorian Theatre by Candlelight Company as they present "Amusing Ambiguities" a montage of three of Feydeau's best short plays: "Ladies' Man"; “Romance in A Flat”; and “Wooed and Viewed.” Now considered one of the great playwrights of the Victorian era, Feydeau's works often involved a mistaken motive or identity, and are filled with misunderstandings and great coincidences.
Reservations are required. Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details or to make a reservation. For more theatre information, please visit the Victorian Theatre by Candlelight page.
A President's Theatre production!
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Date: Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $10.00 member adults; $12.00 adults; $5.00 students (ages 5 to 17) |
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 Description:
Visit the President Benjamin Harrison Home and hear the conversations and gossip of the day as you enter each room and meet and speak with family members and household staff who are re-creating life after the White House in 1898. It's time for spring cleaning at the Indianapolis mansion.
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details.
A President's Theatre production!
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Date: Saturday, June 16,
2012
Time: 10am - 8:30 pm
Cost: Varies by Event
Check out the BIG changes coming to this year's event!
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 Description: The 18th annual Wicket World of Croquet® hosted by the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site will add two NEW croquet events to the traditional six wicket tournament this year.
Alice and Friends Children's Croquet event will start the day at 10am with a croquet lesson, two rounds of play, story and snack.
Out traditional six-wicket tournament will have a later start time this year at 1pm and offer guests an opportunity to enjoy croquet as it was meant to be played on the spacious President's lawn, complete with judges and fine equipment. Competitors of all skill levels welcome.
If your game isn't ready to leave the back yard, join us for the Wicket World of Croquet® Swinging Mixer. This relaxed NEW event includes dinner, a croquet lesson, chance for casual play, live music and beer and wine. Admission to the mixer is included with tournament entry fee.
Proceeds from this fundraising event provide funds for the museum's educational programs.
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Date: Tuesday, July 3, 2012
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am
Cost: Free |
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 Description:
The Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site hosts the summer naturalization ceremony for people who have qualified for United States citizenship. Families and friends of these celebrants will be present to witness this exciting day. Judge Sarah Evans Barker will preside over the court ceremony that will take place in a tent on the south lawn with seating available for 300 people.
Parking will be available at: the Knights of Columbus Parking Lot (NE corner of Delaware and 13th) and all along Delaware Street (free and non-permit). Click here to ask a staff member about this event.
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Date: Wednesday, July 4, 2012
Time: 11:00am to 3:00pm
Cost: $10 member adults; $4.00 member students - $12.00 adults; $5.00 students (5-11); children under 4 are free |
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 Description: Come One, Come All to the Big Top Circus at the 37th annual Ice Cream Social
The Victorian Circus has come to town and raised their tent on the President's lawn. To celebrate, the Harrison's are throwing an Ice Cream Social. Mix and mingle with the circus actors, like our stilt walking Uncle Sam, as well as members of Harrison's family, staff and friends.
Admission includes a walk-thru tour of the home of the 23rd President of the United States complete with visits with enactors. Children of all ages will enjoy attending a one-day Circus Camp where you can learn to juggle, walk the tight rope or balance a spinning plate. Children can also have their face painted, make patriotic crafts and explore the grounds on the Passport to History treasure hunt. The whole family will enjoy a variety of lawn games and the sweet Dixieland sound of the White River Jazz band playing live music!
Don't leave without a visit to the Declaration Depot for a visit with Thomas Jefferson. He will likely ask you to pick up the quill and sign your own name to this historic document.
One dip of cold delicious ice cream is included with your paid admission.
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Date: June, July and August by appointment.
Time: Times are by appointment.
Cost: $5.00 per child. |
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 Description: There are few things as wonderful, inspiring, educational, interesting, and lasting as getting lost in a good story. This summer the Benjamin Harrison Presidential Site will help children become lost in literature. Your students will be given a tour of the museum. Not only will they learn about the only president of the United States to be elected from the state of Indiana…they will learn about the ways and lifestyles of the Victorian Period. This tour will culminate in a reading of a story in the museums ballroom on the third floor. Literature for children in the Victorian period was seen as more than just a good tale. Authors used the written word as a way to teach or unfold a moral lesson in their stories. These lessons, while set in and referring to events that are dated—are timeless and worthy of heeding.
Allow an 1 ½ hours for this experience.
Reading docket:
June—“How the Alphabet was made” by Rudyard Kipling
Theme—being creative
July—“Little Daylight” by George MacDonald
Theme—making lemonade when given lemons
August—“The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde
Theme—being a gracious host
Call 317-631-2717 (ask to speak to the Education Department) or email to schedule this experience for your students.
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Date: Monday, August 20, 2012
Time: 12:00 to 6:00pm (last admission to allow time for visit)
Cost: Free (donations welcomed) |
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 Description: Happy 179th Birthday, Mr. President!
You are invited to a birthday party. Join us as we celebrate Ben's birthday with FREE birthday cake and FREE ice cream, not to mention FREE walk thru tour of museum's first floor. Visit with President Harrison, home for his party, as well as several other family and staff members. If your first or last name is Harrison, you will receive a special gift, but ALL are invited to join us on his special day.
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Date: Thursday, September 13, 2012
Time: 4:30pm Private Reception; 6:30 pm Dinner and Presentation
Cost: Individual tickets and tables available starting at $125.00(more information)
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Description: Join us for the 7th
annual Mary Tucker
Jasper Speaker Series featuring guest speaker Michael Beschloss, "The nation's leading presidential historian" (Newsweek), as he reveals the Washington, D.C. you're not hearing about.
For more information about the event, tickets and sponsorship opportunities, please click here or call 317.631.1888.
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Date: Weekends October 12-21, 2012
Fri./Sat. Performance Times: 6:00pm, 6:30pm, 7:00pm, 7:30pm, 8:00pm
Sun. Matinee Performance Times: 3:30pm, 4:00pm, 4:30pm, 5:00pm, 5:30pm, 6:00pm (Note: Each time is the start of a progressive play that lasts approximately one hour.)
Cost: $12.00 adults; $5.00 students (ages 6 to 17)
Reservations Required |
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Description: Our nation's capital is filled with patriotic spirit by day and the spirits of the past by night. Meet ghosts of such former political powerhouses as Abraham Lincoln, William Henry Harrison, James Garfield and Dolley Madison who are rumored to haunt D.C. to this day.
This performance progresses through the President's mansion as guests encounter different spirits in the many rooms of the home. Performances start every half-hour on Friday and Saturday from 6pm-8pm and Sunday from 3:30pm to 6pm. Each performance lasts approximately one hour.
Click here or call 317-631-1888 to make a reservation. For more theatre information, please visit the Victorian Theatre by Candlelight web page.
A President's Theatre production!
Not recommended for children under 6.
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Date: Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $10.00 member adults; $12.00 adults; $5.00 students (ages 5 to 17) |
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 Description: How would Benjamin Harrison have kept track of the election results without 24-hour news television? Visit the President Benjamin Harrison Home and be transported to the year 1888 as household staff and family members, recreated by exceptional actors, discuss their preparations for their move to Washington.
A President's Theatre production!
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details.
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Date: Saturday, December 15, 2012
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $10.00 member adults; $12.00 adults; $5.00 students (ages 5 to 17) |
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 Description: Bring the family for a unique Christmas tour of the Benjamin Harrison Home. The year is 1888. President Harrison, some of the family from Ohio and the household staff will be "home for the holidays" talking about the excitement of Christmas Day and personally offering their good wishes to you and yours for the holidays. Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details.
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Date: Friday, December 28, 2012
Time: 5:30pm to 9:30pm
Cost: $75.00 per person; $70.00 members
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 Description: Join us for A Candlelight Evening on Delaware Street fundraising event of historic house tours and elegant dining. Begin your evening with a tour of the Harrison home then visit other locations on this walking tour of the historic mansions on Delaware Street. This event is lovely way to celebrate the Winter Holidays with family or friends!
Make your reservations now as this event is likely to sell out! Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details or to reserve. Space is limited.
This event makes a wonderful gift to give! Gift certificates are available.
Footsteps on the sidewalk, crunching through the snow, seem to whisper something, of the long ago – James Whitcomb Riley
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Date: RESERVE AN EVENING...YOU PICK THE DATE!
Time: 6:30pm to 9:30pm
Cost: $1,500* to sponsor a dinner OR $150 per couple for approximately 10 couples
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 Description: Are you involved in a civic club, social club, book club, neighborhood group? Do you have a group of clients to entertain? Looking for something to enrich your typical dining experience downtown? The Harrison Site is offering Civil War Dinners! This is the perfect opportunity for approximately 20 people (per evening) to engage in an unforgettable dinner conversation as interactive guests of "General Benjamin Harrison" and his "Aide-de-Camp."
The "General" looks forward to dining with you! Visit our Civil War Dinner web page for more details. Click here or call 317-631-1888 to reserve.
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