Death Rites and Victorian Mourning Culture: A Specialty Tour at Auburn's Seward House This October

The Seward House Museum in Auburn has a specialty tour that arrives at exactly the right moment in the calendar: the Death Rites and Victorian Mourning Culture tour on October 22. Victorian mourning had a specific vocabulary — widow's caps, black-bordered stationery, the sequencing of grief — and the Seward family lived through all of it, including the assassination attempt on William Henry Seward the same night Lincoln was shot. The tour takes you through those rooms and that history on an evening that belongs to exactly this kind of company.

Date: Thursday, October 22, 2026 Time: 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM Location: Seward House Museum, 33 South St, Auburn, NY Cost: See sewardhouse.org for admission

Visit sewardhouse.org to register for this specialty tour — spots are limited.