Historic Strawberry Mansion

All week long we’re spotlighting groups participating in this year’s . Today: Alvéole! Alvéole are a company who set up and maintain urban beehives for clients. Along with our old friends the Philly Beekeepers Guild, Alvéole will be bringing activities and handouts to teach festival attendees all about bees and beekeeping. We’re happy to have them joining the festival for the first time this year! Come get to know them this Saturday!
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All week long we’re spotlighting the organizations participating in 2024. Today: Philly Goat Project! The Goat Project are a community group who’ve been based out of Awbury Arboretum since 2018. They provide education, therapy, job training, wellness, and community engagement activities in partnership with the dynamic and delightful capacities of goats. You may have seen them around town shooting photos for their adorable calendars, or in the music video for Philly artist Armani White’s song “GOATED.” The goats have become fixtures of the Strawberry Festival; kids and adults alike love petting them, posing for photos with them, and walking along with their educational Story Walks. Don’t miss them this Saturday!
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Spotlight on organizations participating in this year’s : Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild! Since 2009 the Beekeepers Guild have worked to encourage and promote urban beekeeping through fellowship and education, and to raise awareness of the importance of bees to our environment. We love the beekeeping demonstrations and delicious local honey they bring to every festival! In this action-packed shot taken last year, beekeeper Suzanne is demonstrating how honey is extracted from frames.

Spotlight on organizations participating in this year’s : Fair Amount Food Forest. FAFF are our neighbors here in Fairmount Park. They’re a community land project with a mission to, through collective and connective efforts, foster a community-based, publicly-accessible, and educational food forest garden on public land. We love what they do to bring healthy food and enjoyment of the outdoors to the community, and we’re so grateful to have them involved in the festival!

The 2024 Strawberry Festival is THIS SATURDAY! Try some fresh summer berries, pet a goat, see a beekeeping demonstration, and take home a strawberry plant to grow in your own garden- all for free! Will you be at this family-friendly summer event?

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Historic Strawberry Mansion and the Committee of 1926 are pleased to announce a new special exhibit, opening April 20. "Framing Strawberry Mansion: A Philadelphia Landmark Through Artists' Eyes, 1842-2024" aims to compile an overview of artistic depictions of the mansion featuring both new works and pieces pulled from the HSM archives. These depictions provide a lens through which to explore the evolution of aesthetic trends over the last two centuries of the mansion’s existence; the visible changes to the mansion itself; and the overlap between women’s artistic production and social organizing in Philadelphia history.

On view from April 20 until June 23. Access to this exhibit is included with standard admission to the mansion.
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We can't believe it's already the last weekend of our Yuletide season! We have so many fun winter activities scheduled this weekend- tea services in the banquet room on Saturday AND Sunday, plus the Philly Holiday Experience free family day on Saturday. This weekend is the last chance to see 2023's decorations so come visit while it lasts! And make sure to check out the festivities at our Fairmount Park neighbors Laurel Hill Mansion, Woodford Mansion, Lemon Hill Mansion, and Ormiston Mansion! See historicstrawberrymansion.org or parkcharms.org for more information.
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Saturday December 9 is the first of this season's three Yuletide tea services! Join us in the Historic Strawberry Mansion Banquet Room for refreshments and local/vintage gifts, from 11 AM until 3 PM. 🎄☕🍪

The halls are decked! Holiday tours at the park houses begin TOMORROW! 🎉🎄Visit historicstrawberrymansion.org or parkcharms.org for all the information you need to plan your visit. No reservations needed!

Our favorite holiday tradition: Yuletide Teas! Historic Strawberry Mansion will be hosting teas on THREE dates this year, so choose the one that works best for you to come and have a cup of cheer with us!
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It's beginning to look a lot like Yuletide...

Holidays in the Park are BACK for December 2023, and here at Historic Strawberry Mansion we're already decking the halls. Keep an eye on our social media and website for the latest news on our holiday programming, and make sure you check out parkcharms.org as well!
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This week, Strawberry Mansion had a special visitor- a very sweet, friendly cat with no collar or chip. She's won all our hearts and a friend of the mansion took her home to care for, but we're wondering if someone out there is looking for her. If you live in or near 19121/19132 and are missing a small female cat (around 6-8 months old), dm us a description of your cat and we'll see if they match!

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Today at Strawberry: Restored carved rosettes 🌹 installed on the roof by conservators from Fairmount Park Conservancy

Goats + Strawberries = Joy! Thanks Philly Goat Project for these snaps from 🍓🐐

Thank you to everyone who made such a success on Saturday! All in all over 280 neighbors joined in the celebration of summer abundance. We can't wait to see you all again next year!

is TOMORROW! If you love strawberries as much as Clementine the goat here, come celebrate with us!

is THIS SATURDAY from 1-3! You don't want to miss Wynn and Suzanne's beehive tour- open hive talk starts around 1:30 and hands-on honey extraction is around 2:15.

that June's full moon is nicknamed "The Strawberry Moon"? It just so happens that 2023's strawberry moon falls on June 3- the day of ! The festival is from 1-3 PM so there'll be no moongazing there, but harvesting strawberries in the garden with the goats and bees is still a great way to celebrate the cycles of the natural world. 🌕🍓

One of our favorite traditions is hanging out with our four-legged-friends. Philly Goat Project will be bringing the herd to enjoy pets and share one of their beloved-by-all-ages story walks. Bring your own herd to meet them- Saturday June 3 from 1-3 PM.
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The countdown to continues! Philadelphia Beekeepers Guild will be joining us with apiary education and local honey! June 3rd 1-3 pm at the mansion 🐝🍓

is back for 2023! Time has flown by since last year's festival, and we're now just a couple weeks away from this year's celebration. The festival will be June 3rd from 1-3 PM with our friends from Philadelphia Orchard Project and Philly Goat Project. Come join us for a Fairmount Park tradition: always fun, and always free 🍓

Spring at Strawberry means azaleas... and reopening! Tours start on April 22nd.

How does one man's story connect William Lewis, James Forten, and the Haitian Revolution? Find out in our latest article: "Freedom on Trial: Charles Webster"; and don't forget to visit the new exhibit "Black Founders: The Forten Family of Philadelphia" at Museum of the American Revolution
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We just published the first installment in our new Black History Month series, Freedom on Trial! This series aims to highlight a group of men and women who share one special connection to the Mansion: they were clients of the house’s first owner, William Lewis, in his work as an abolitionist lawyer. Each person in this series sought freedom from enslavement via the law, and Lewis counseled or represented them in this quest. Today we look at Ben, a 19th century Philadelphian who won his freedom in court not once, but twice! Read the full story using the QR code or at https://tinyurl.com/freedomontrial

Historic Strawberry Mansion updated their business hours.

We are now closed! Thank you to everyone who made this holiday season special.

We've made the decision to close on Friday due to predictions of inclement weather. ☔ 🥶 That means if you want to see this year's Christmas decorations at Strawberry, TOMORROW is your LAST CHANCE! We'll see you there!