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Akron’s Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens was built more than a century ago as an estate for wealthy co-founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber, F.A. Seiberling. In 1957, it was donated to a nonprofit foundation to become a museum open to the public.
Stan Hywet’s annual Deck the Hall holiday event gives visitors a taste of how the wealthy celebrated Christmas 100 years ago, with some modern flourishes. The first thing visitors will see is the huge, decorated, lighted tree in the Carriage House Courtyard and the surrounding grounds lit up by 1.4 million lights. Nearby are the two animated shop windows of the Gingerbread Bakeshop and 1920s Akron at Christmas leading the way to Molly’s Shop, where you can actually buy holiday gifts. Get refreshments including hot gingerbread, giant pretzels, wine, beer and cocoa at Molly’s Courtyard Café. Santa will be greeting visitors in the area.
Then go inside the Manor House to see 20 rooms and 23 decorated tree decked out in holiday finery, each with a different theme or color — snowflakes, mirror ball garlands, and even a celestial theme in the solarium. In the Great Garden there are lights choreographed to three holiday songs, and the Corbin Conservatory will be decorated in red and green, with a giant poinsettia tree as centerpiece. There visitors will also be able to buy poinsettias in many colors.
Deck the Hall is open from 3-8pm. For more information and tickets go to stanhywet.org.
Akron, OH 44313