Experience the historic Ellwood House Museum like never before with our nighttime flashlight tours!

Experience the historic Ellwood House Museum like never before with our nighttime flashlight tours!

Wine on the Terrace is the Ellwood House Museum’s signature fundraising event, an elegant and relaxed evening that directly supports our mission to preserve this historic site and connect our community to local history. Proceeds from this event help fund year-round preservation work, school field trips, public programs, and free admission days that keep history accessible for all.

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Pm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: The Beaux Band

This edition of Music at the Mansion will take place on Thursday, August 6.

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Ppm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: Abby Kay Band

This lecture will be held at the DeKalb County History Center in their new corn crib stage.

“Abraham Lincoln in Song” is a one man show created by award-winning folksinger and folklorist, Chris Vallillo to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth and connects to the 250th Anniversary of the United States. Extensively researched and historically accurate, the program uses period music to look at our 16th President from a whole new angle.

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Ppm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: Feel Good Party Band

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Ppm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: Classical Blast

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Ppm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: Tambora

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Ppm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: The Rhythm Rockets

Join us for the 4th Arts in Action exhibit opening at the Ellwood House Museum!

Arts in Action: “The Power of Place,” is a photography exhibit featuring works by Jayla Trenyce, a Chicago-based graduate of Northern Illinois University, and founder of Kindred Noir, an organization which seeks to empower and support Black and underserved artists.

This event has been postponed to a later date.

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Pm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Headliner: The Beaux Band

This event has been postponed to a later date.

Grab your friends and family, bring your blankets and chairs and gather your dancing shoes for some amazing FREE music set against the backdrop of the Ellwood Mansion. On select Wednesday evenings this summer, the pre-show starts at 6:30 Ppm and the headline show is from 7:00 - 8:30 pm. A select menu of beer, wine, beverages, and food/snacks will be available each week for purchase on-site.

Within this presentation, Nancy Leone will discuss her work as the Carpenter Fellow in Asian Collections at the Ellwood House Museum. She will discuss the processes of inventorying, cataloging, and preserving Asian art objects, as well as the research involved in understanding their historical context and provenance. Nancy will also highlight her role in developing an upcoming exhibition, showing how collections work translates into public interpretation and display.

We are pleased to announce our 4th annual Evening at Ellcourt celebration. This year, we look forward to hosting a regency-era masquerade at our beautiful Tudor-Revival Ellcourt Home on Saturday, May 30, from 6pm-9pm.

Join the City of DeKalb and the Ellwood House Museum for a Memorial Day Celebration!

Join us on Saturday, May 9 from 2-4pm for a "Turn of the Century Tea Party" at Ellcourt, a partnership with DeKalb Public Library!