This is an archived event from Culture Days 2020.
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Erland Lee Museum Home Grounds Tour
Self-guided
Architecture History & heritage Museum Nature & outdoors TourDate and time
This activity runs the duration of Culture Days.
Location
Erland Lee Museum Home
Stoney Creek, ON
Directions: Located along Ridge Road in Stoney Creek, between the New Mountain and Dewitt mountain accesses.
Access
Free.
Offered in English.
Has gender-neutral washrooms.
This activity is outdoors
About
Visit the Erland Lee Museum Home for a self-guided tour using the new Garden Tour Brochure & Map, located inside the blue box near the Visitor Entrance (west porch).
The grounds on which the Erland Lee Museum Home is situated contain a variety of native plants, historically significant plaques and monuments, and original buildings from the time of the Lee family’s occupation of the farm. Visitors are encouraged to use the informative grounds tour brochure and accompanying site-map to explore the property while enjoying the beautiful escarpment view and open greenery. Visitors will also be able to explore the lush gardens with their carefully labeled native & heritage plant species.
Organizer
Erland Lee Museum Home
The Erland Lee Museum Home is a National Historic Site of Canada and home of the world's first Women's Institutes branch. Built in 1808 as a simple log cabin, the building was renovated over the years and owned by the Lee family until 1972.
In 1972, the Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario (FWIO) purchased the Lee family home. FWIO wanted to preserve the vintage home as a memorial to the birthplace of the Women's Institutes (WI), and feature the vanished, middle-class, rural Victorian lifestyle. It opened as the Erland Lee Museum the same year, with the exterior and the 1873 additions restored to their 1897 beauty.
The Erland Lee Museum Home strives to serve its community through family-friendly events & programs and through educational and entertaining workshops through the year. We are regularly open January through December for guided tours of the home and self-guided tours of the 1873 Carriage House and grounds.