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Christmas at Hagley
Christmas at Hagley
Month Held: Thanksgiving Weekend through December
Sponsorship: $1,500 (Options are available for company
parties, client entertaining, and exclusive tours)
Description: During the holidays at Hagley, the du Pont
family ancestral home, known as Eleutherian Mills, will be
decorated for the season and open for tours. This display will
be open daily from the Friday following Thanksgiving through
the end of December, from 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Attendance
averages 4,000 visitors for the month-long event.
Visitors will find holiday decorations reflecting the
furnishings and style that Louise du Pont Crowninshield
used as she occupied it from 1925 to 1958. Decorations will
evoke the Colonial Revival style. Made popular by Colonial
Williamsburg, this style makes use of holly, pine roping
with ribbons, poinsettias, and liberal quantities of dried
plant materials mostly grown at Hagley, as well as fruit, for
decorations. Four Christmas trees, wreaths, holiday music,
decorative mantelpieces, and many other decorations will fill
the home to give it a warm and inviting holiday atmosphere.
One returning favorite is the elaborate Twelfth Night display
in the dining room, which uses Mrs. Crowninshield’s plumband
French porcelain dessert service (1800-1836).
Sponsor Receives: Name on event program, on news
releases, and in Hagley’s annual report; fifty passes to
the event; options available for company parties, client
entertaining, and exclusive tours.
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