Ellwood House Museum in Dekalb
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Dekalb, DeKalb County, Illinois, US
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Site: http://ellwoodhouse.org/
- Monday:Closed
- Tuesday:Closed
- Wednesday:1–2PM
- Thursday:1–2PM
- Friday:1–2PM
- Saturday:1–2PM
- Sunday:Closed
The museum campus includes two elegant homes built by the Ellwood family. The older home, built in 1879, is fully furnished with the familys furniture and is available to be toured from March to November. This first weekend of December is always a special treat because the house is beautifully decorated for Christmas by local groups and businesses. Also, local musicians play Christmas music in the rotunda. Light refreshments are served in the visitors center which has an excellent free exhibit about the family and their barbed wire business. Well worth a visit!
Dedicated staff offers great tours of this historic DeKalb house, they painstakingly decorate a late nineteenth century manor to impressive detail, based off of original photographs and the testimony of surviving Ellwood family members. Tours are of decent length, as the house is enormous, price is reasonable and a great date spot for students at Northern Illinois University.
There are four houses that can be viewed also a small Museum the childs Playhouse you can actually walk into the garage where they kept all their antique cars is full of photographs and memorabilia one of the small houses to view is also a museum so its great opportunity and theres a 10-acre garden be sure to read the brochure online for X dates and what tour you were signing up for
Just make sure you have or bring a good camera, guys ... This is a really recommended place for photos.We are invited to Miss Sint @ here, and at the same time, we go to Walm @ rt too. I regret the standard kamare cellphone. Leave your photo friends still not satisfied. In Syaa Allah, if there is sustenance here again, please satisfy a beautiful photo with a beautiful camera too ...
Total reviews rating 4.8
86 Reviews for Ellwood House Museum 2023:
Review №1
2022-06-18We enjoyed it. The tour guide was informative and the mansion is gorgeous. Lots of great history. They have done a terrific job of restoring it.
Review №2
2022-07-02Lauren did amazing as a tour guide!! We could only do half the tour because of the heat, but it was still worth it!! The history and house us amazing!! We will be back for the full tour! Hopefully Lauren is still doing tours!!!I think I spelled her name wrong. Lol
Review №3
2021-03-27Nice place to walk the grounds but all the buildings are currently closed and would love to see inside also. Cool history with the original owner making his money in barbed wire.
Review №4
2018-02-20Heads up: No photography allowed in the home. Personally, that defeats the purpose of my visit, if I cant take photos of places Ive visited in my life. But you can take photos of the outside of the house and get up close to the windows and take photos of the living room as you stand on the porch. Theres also a visitor center, where photos ARE allowed and you can learn about Elwoods history.Staff was pretty nice. They greeted me & told me where the restrooms are located & then they went back to work in their office. They just let me walk through the visitor center like a ghost walking through the halls. Thats fine by me! I rather be a ghost than have staff drill me with questions like I have in other museums:Where are you visiting from?Where do you live?How did you hear about us?Have you visited our website?Have you visited us before?Where are you going after the museum?Im JUST passing through... Dang!
Review №5
2022-03-06Our tour was so fun and informative. The house was elegant and beautiful. I had such a great time. And our tour guide was phenomenal.
Review №6
2018-04-24This is a surprisingly interesting view into the lives of the well heeled and their servants from the end of the 19th century into the middle of the 20th. For only $8, you spend ~1 hr getting a guided tour of the original family mansion built by barb wire fortune and subsequently updated by the sale of more barb wire. Sounds odd, but its definitely worth doing. The architecture and recovered restored furnishings of the original residence are worth the price of admission, even if it didnt include the stories shared by the docents and guides. Definitely worth it if you are in Dekalb.
Review №7
2022-06-30The Arts In Action exhibit is thoughtful and thought provoking. You need to explore it for yourself.
Review №8
2019-03-31What a nice place to visit, very nice mansion, lots of history, must go and visit.
Review №9
2022-06-23It’s awesome to give Tours and Concerts
Review №10
2021-12-14I enjoy the Ellwood House so much! It is a treasured museum and park in DeKalb, Il. The marvelous home has only been lived in by the Ellwoods, an important family in the parenting and manufacturing of barbed wire. The furnishings are original to the family.