Sat 4/1
Akron’s Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens was built as a private estate for F.A. Seiberling, the founder of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, and his family in 1915. After his death in 1955, the 70-acre estate and its five buildings became a nonprofit museum, open to the public for tours and events such as theater performances, car shows, maker markets and more April-December.
Stan Hywet opens for the season on Saturday April 1. This year’s Manor House exhibit theme is “Connections: Love & the Ties That Bind.” It will depict how the Seiberlings lived at the estate, their personal relationship and the events they held, even showing the role of the staff, with information about how the staff cooked and cleaned for the family and its guests.
During April, ticketholders who buy a ticket for the self-guided Mentor house tour and bring a non-perishable food item for the Akron-Canton Regional Food Bank will get a second ticket free.
Once again, guided tours are returning, following a pandemic break, and masks are now optional. Go here for information, hours and tickets.