Morven Park Ready For Guided Holiday Tours, Open House

LEESBURG, VA — Morven Park has scheduled guided holiday tours for Dec. 21-22 and plans to hold its Holiday Open House Dec. 27-29 to give the public an opportunity to learn about the origins of popular holiday traditions and take photos of holiday decorations.

Morven Park, a 1,000-acre historic estate in Leesburg, has about 250,000 visitors each year. The grounds include the Morven Park Mansion, the Winmill Carriage Museum, formal boxwood gardens, miles of hiking and riding trails, and athletic fields.

The mansion, once the home of Thomas Swann Jr., governor of Maryland during the Civil War and Westmoreland Davis, governor of Virginia during World War I, is on the National Register of Historic Places and is a Virginia Historic Landmark. The Westmoreland Davis Memorial Foundation operates Morven Park, seeking to make it avaibable to the public as a place of historical and cultural value.

The guided tours on Dec. 21-22 depart from the Mansion Visitor Center at the top of each hour starting at noon, with the last tour at 4:00 p.m. For the holiday open house from Dec. 27-29,
museum educators will be stationed throughout the mansion until 5 p.m. each to answer questions.

Tickets to the Morven Park Holiday Open House can be purchased online. Tickets are $10 per adult and $5 per child.