New Holiday Events for 2009

New Holiday Ornament

Thank you!

Many thanks to all those
who made the
2009 Summer Sundays At Four
and the 2009 MusicFest a delightful and successful experience...

See our
Upcoming Events

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Planning an upcoming wedding, birthday party, anniversary, or private function?
Visit our Private Functions page for info on use of Park-McCullough's gardens & historic buildings!

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See our Media page
for articles about Park-McCullough House

Historic Park-McCullough is open daily from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. from mid-May to mid-October. From November through April, we accept group tours by appointment and offer special events as announced. We accept reservations for The Carriage Barn, our newly-renovated event site, throughout the year. Our year-round business hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Group tours, school field trips and private events may be scheduled throughout the entire year.

We are now accepting reservations and deposits for elegant weddings, civil unions and other special events on our site for 2008 and 2009. Please click on "private functions" for a photo tour.

At Historic Park-McCullough, you experience the grandeur of the house often described as "one of Vermont's jewels". You also participate in the elegant lifestyle made possible through vast wealth accumulated during the California Gold Rush era and subsequently added to through business dealings in finance, railroads, steamship lines and real estate development.

The thirty-five room Park-McCullough House was completed in 1865 for Trenor and Laura Park. Park engaged architect Henry Dudley, of the New York architectural firm, Diaper and Dudley, to design his "summer home", a classic example of French Second Empire style.

Historic Park-McCullough is significant for its collections and archives, accumulated by the succeeding generations of one family who lived in the House for over a century. Few buildings of such important retain as complete a collection of furniture, clothing, decorative arts, fine art that belonged to the original family as well a complete archive of family documents, including all those related to the construction, maintenance and use of the House throughout its history.

The furnishings and decor are nearly unchanged. As you walk in the front door you will find rooms with fourteen-foot ceilings opening onto a gracious central hall with a sweeping staircase. The fine interior details include oak and walnut paneling, parquet floors, and bronze chandeliers (originally supplied with gas from an ingenious gas-making machine). The family appears to have just left the large, airy bedrooms upstairs.

The beautiful grounds feature a playhouse, rose gardens, and a Carriage Barn, which houses a fine collection of horse-drawn carriages, buggies, sleighs and fire-fighting equipment.

Originally built as a doghouse, the playhouse was constructed by Diaper and Dudley at the same time as the mansion. It features miniature furniture and a working iron cookstove.

The Park-McCullough House was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972, and is currently owned and operated by the non-profit Park-McCullough House Association.