Name: Hayes Home Holidays: Spirits of Christmas
Start: 2025-12-19T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-20T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Spiegel Grove, Fremont, OH, United States, Ohio 43420

Hayes Home Holidays: Spirits of Christmas

Experience the magic and supernatural side of Christmas with beloved Christmas stories, including “A Christmas Carol,” by Charles Dickens during an evening tour of parts of the historic Hayes Home.
Hayes Home Holidays: Spirits of Christmas tours are offered Friday, Dec. 19, and Saturday, Dec. 20. Tours each day are offered at 5, 5:30, 6, 6:30, 7, 7:30 and 8 p.m. Dickens, one of the most popular writers of the Victorian era, was a favorite author of President Rutherford B. Hayes and lived at the same time as Hayes.
Hear Dickens’ beloved stories in Hayes’ Victorian mansion, which will be lightly decorated for Christmas. The Victorians believed Christmas was a time when the portal to another world was opened, which made the holiday popular for telling ghost stories.
Many of Dickens’ works, including Christmas stories, feature the supernatural. Enjoy the warmth of the Hayes Home at night, a time when it is not often open to visitors, while hearing stories that will tingle your spine but leave you with a warm feeling. A cup of wassail, a traditional holiday drink during Victorian times, will also put you in the Christmas spirit.
Before tours, guests can enjoy the “Hayes Train Special” model train display in the museum auditorium. Tickets for non-members are $18 for adults ages 19 and older, $10 for kids 6-18 and free for kids 5 and younger. Tickets for Hayes Presidential members are $15 for adults 19 and older, $8 for ages 6-18 and free for kids 5 and younger.
Tickets are coming soon to rbhayes.org. They will also be available at the museum front desk the days of the events, pending availability.
For visitors who need special accommodations for mobility or vision or hearing impairment, Hayes Presidential requests a notice of 72 hours. Please contact Linda Lopez-Fouts, visitor services manager, at 419-332-2081 or [email protected]. Requests received with fewer than 72 hours notice will be handled to the best of Hayes Presidential’s ability.