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Date: Sunday, February 14, 2010
Time: 6:00pm program at PBHH, followed by dinner at The Propylaeum
Cost: $130.00 per couple; $120.00 per member couple |
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Description: Enjoy a romantic evening of Victorian love letters, poetry and readings at the President Benjamin Harrison Home, followed by dinner at the Indianapolis Propylaeum. A President's Theatre production!
The talent for the evening:
NELSON PRICE presents BOOTH TARKINGTON
GAIL WHITCHURCH presents GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
DAVID WING as BENJAMIN HARRISON
DONNA WING as CAROLINE HARRISON
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details or to reserve.
  
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Date: Monday, February 15,
2010
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $9.00 adults; $4.00 students (ages 5 to 17) |
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 Description: Celebrate Presidents' Day at the 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. A President's Theatre production.
Additionally, with your admission this day, is the public opening of the 2010 exhibit "All Aboard! Making Tracks with the Presidential Train."
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details.
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Date: Wednesday, March 23, 2010
Time: 10:00am and 12:30pm
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: Fridays/Saturdays, April 16-17, 23-24, 30 and May 1 and Sunday, May 2
Time: Curtain at 8:00pm; Sunday Matinee Curtain at 2:00pm
Cost: $18.00 per person; $15.00 members, seniors, students
(Call for group rates and room buy-outs!) |
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Description:
A house possessed, a body that has disappeared, and a woman in fear for her life - these three stories will unfold at this spring’s Victorian Theatre by Candlelight production of “Murder and Mystery in the Mansion.”
Guests will experience intimate, salon-style theatre as they watch three one-act mysteries, each in a different room of the President Benjamin Harrison Home.
In the master bedroom, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “The Speckled Band” comes to life.
The back parlor is the setting for Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher.”
Lord Dunsany’s macabre story, “Two Bottles of Relish,” will intrigue guests in the dining room.
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details or to make a reservation (strongly recommended). For more theatre information, please visit www.donnawing.com.
A President's Theatre production!
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Date: Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $9.00 adults; $4.00 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.
A President's Theatre production!
Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details.
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Date: Friday, May 14,
2010
Time: 5:30pm to 9:30pm
Cost: $70.00 per person |
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 Description: Six Courses at Six Beautiful Historic Locations!
Enjoy the charm of the historic Old Northside Neighborhood while participating in a wonderful spring fundraising event for the President Benjamin Harrison Home and the Morris-Butler House Museum. Stroll from site to site, enjoying food and a tour of each of six locations, resulting in a gourmet six-course meal, one course at each venue.
Reservations are required and can be made by calling the Morris-Butler House Museum: 317-636-5409. Click here to ask a staff member about this event.
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Date: Saturday, June14,
2010
Time: 8:30am to 2:00pm
Cost: $110.00 per team of two (lunch included, equipment provided)
Yellow Ball Court Sponsorships are available beginning at just $400.00
Visit our new Wicket World of Croquet web page for more details! |
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 Description: Join us for the 16th annual Wicket World of Croquet® hosted by the President Benjamin Harrison Home. This croquet tournament is a must-experience Indianapolis tradition, providing funds for the museum's educational programs that served over 14,000 of Indiana's youth in 2009. Enjoy croquet as it was meant to be played, complete with judges, the spacious President's lawn, fine equipment, and a combination of all skill levels. Click here to register your team of two people...team spots are limited!
One free bisque is awarded to each team signed up by April 30, 2010!
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Date: Friday, July 2, 2010
Time: 10:00am to 11:00am
Cost: FREE |
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 Description:
The south lawn of the President Benjamin Harrison Home will be the site of 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 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: Sunday, July 4, 2010
Time: 11:30am to 4:00pm
Cost: $10.00 adults; $4.00 students (children 4 and under are free.) |
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 Description: For 35 years, the President Benjamin Harrison Home has hosted its annual Ice Cream Social! Cold ice cream, patriotic enactors and live music make this the perfect, safe family celebration of the Fourth of July!
Ice cream included with admission and additional food and beverages are available for purchase.
The event features a re-enactment of President Harrison's July 4, 1888, acceptance speech (which he gave from his Delaware Street home) to be the nominee for President of the United States. Click here for more information.
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Date: Friday, August 20, 2010
Time: Tours offered from 12:00pm to 6:00pm (last tour begins at 5:00pm)
Cost: FREE |
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 Description: Happy 177th Birthday, Mr. President!
Calling all Harrisons - you are invited to help us celebrate Ben's birthday with FREE birthday cake and FREE museum tours. If your first or last name is Harrison, you will recieve a specail gift, but ALL are invited to join us on his special day. Enjoy a free tour and complimentary birthday cake to celebrate. Click here for more information.
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Date: Saturday, September 25, 2010
Time: Tours offered on the hour and half hour from 10:00am to 3:30pm
(last tour begins at 3:30pm)
Cost: Stay tuned for coupon information!
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Date: September 2010
Time and Cost: Please check back soon!
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Description: Join us for the 5 th annual Mary Tucker Jasper Speaker Series in September. This prestigious event includes an exclusive private reception at the President’s home, a presentation by a nationally recognized speaker, the awarding of the Advancing American Democracy medal and dinner. For more information about this year’s please call 317.631.1888.
Last year's program featured a a presentation by Brian Lamb at the Columbia Club on Monument Circle. Click here for more information.
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Date: Fridays/Saturdays,
October 15-16, 22-23 and Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010
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 45-60 minutes.)
Cost: $10.00 adults; $6.00 students (ages 6 to 17) |
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 Description: Visit President Benjamin Harrison's home and listen to spine tingling tales that stir the imagination while encountering the spirits who have haunted our country for ages. These chilling stories of famous specters unfold as you travel from room to room in the President's mansion.
A President's Theatre production!
Not recommended for children under 6.
Click here or call 317-631-1888 to make a reservation. For more theatre information, please visit www.donnawing.com.
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Date: Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $9.00 adults; $4.00 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.
November 2, 2010 is also the last day for the "All Aboard! Making Tracks with the Presidential Train" exhibit. Don't miss it!
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Date: Saturday, December 11, 2010
Time: 10:00am to 3:00pm (Tours on the hour and half-hour.)
Cost: $9.00 adults; $4.00 students (ages 5 to 17) |
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Description: Bring the family for a unique Christmas tour of the President 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: Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Time: 5:30pm to 9:30pm
Cost: $75.00 per person; $70.00 members
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 Description: Join us for the 11th annual "A Candlelight Evening on Delaware Street" fundraising event of historic house tours and elegant dining. This progressive walking tour of the historic mansions on Delaware Street opens the doors of history and is a lovely way to celebrate the Holidays!
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: $1,250* to sponsor a dinner OR $125 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 Home 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 evening traditionally begins in our Carriage House for hors d'oeuvres and wine, then the group enters the home from the front door, takes a brief tour of the first floor as a group and then assembles in the historic Library, where the group is greeted by "General Harrison," who invites them to dinner downstairs. Charge your glass and enjoy an insightful evening of Civil War discussion with General Harrison and his Aid. *The cost is $1,250 to book a dinner, which includes all expenses as well as a one-year membership for all guests/couples who participate. Civil War Dinners are BY REQUEST! Call us if you are interested or if you have any questions. The "General" looks forward to dining with you! Click here or call 317-631-1888 for more details or to reserve.
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