The McFaddin-Ward House
Historic House Museum in Beaumont, Texas
The McFaddin-Ward House is open for Christmas tours! Awaken your holiday spirit with a look inside the past. Book your tour appointment with a docent today by calling 409-832-2134 So that our employees may enjoy special time with their families, we are closed Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Years Eve, and New Years Day. The …
The McFaddin-Ward House Museum is making up for lost time. Staff at the city’s grand historic home is ironing out details for it’s first community picnic in more than a year. “This year’s Fall Picnic promises to be bigger and better than ever,” says McFaddin-Ward House Director, Allen Lea. “We had to cancel events on …
“A Day in the Life” Kids’ Camp Our popular kids’s camp starts July 23rd, 2019. “A Day in the Life” gives campers a birds eye view of what it was like to be a McFaddin and live in their big house! The details: –Campers must be ages 8 – 12. –Camp is Tuesday, July 23rd, …
Calling All Campers! Our popular kids’s camp starts July 23rd, 2019. “A Day in the Life” gives campers a birds eye view of what it was like to be a McFaddin and live in their big house! The details: –Campers must be ages 8 – 12. –Camp is Tuesday, July 23rd, Wednesday, July 24th, and …
2019 Summer Internship Opportunity The McFaddin-Ward House, an AAM accredited historic house museum in Beaumont, Texas, is offering a paid summer internship in its collections and education department. Built 1905-1906, the Beaux-Arts Colonial mansion was the home of Mamie McFaddin Ward, who left it as a historic house museum in 1982. The museum, which opened …
Now on display in the Visitor Center is the exhibit “Shining Examples: Silver from the McFaddin-Ward House Collection.” In the tall case are featured coffee pots, pitchers, and tumblers. Specialized pieces for gracefully serving fish, toast, cheese, bone marrow and even the South American drink, yerba mate. Silver is both beautiful and practical once combined …
Did you know society has not always associated the color pink with femininity? In 1918, the clothing company Earnshaw’s Infants’ Department rules that pink favors boys, because it descends from the strong and aggressive symbolism of red. As time progresses, however, color assignment lacks unanimity, with different regions advertising pink for both girls and boys. …
Junior Interpreters to Host Tours on June 30th On Saturday, June 30, newly trained Junior Interpreters, along with veteran “J.I.s”, will give free tours of the McFaddin-Ward House and carriage house. Junior Interpreters are older teenagers who are fully trained docents. Junior Interpreter Day allows the new guides to become more proficient at interacting with …
The McFaddin-Ward China Collection The McFaddin women adored china. Mamie McFaddin Ward and her mother Ida owned some thirty-six sets! Not all were dinnerware, however. They included breakfast, tea, and dessert sets too, and they happily used them all. New exhibits featuring ceramics from the McFaddin-Ward House Collection are now on display at the Visitor …
