Ghost Walk Tours

Saturday, October 17
Tours at 1:00, 2:00, & 3:00 pm.
$25 General Admission
$20 S-WH Members
At Memento Mori Cemetery, Main Street, Farmington
Parking at Barney Library, 71 Main St.

Join us at Memento Mori Cemetery, where costumed interpreters bring documented stories from Farmington’s past to life among the gravestones of one of the town’s oldest historic sites.

Progressive Dinner October 24, 2026! 

Purchase your tickets early!

Image: Charles Ethan Porter, Still Life with Corn, ca. 1880. Watercolor. Collection of The Met. Public domain.

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Who was Stanley Whitman? Learn about Colonial Farmington and the people who made livings, raised children, and made the best of their times. You can experience their lives in our authentic historic house and period gardens.

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One of Hartford County's must-see heritage destinations! Enter the world of Colonial New England by visiting Stanley-Whitman House, where you can experience life as the early settlers lived it.

Happy 305th Birthday, S-WH!

Stanley-Whitman House turned 305 on December 31, 2025!

On the occasion of the Tercentenary of Stanley-Whitman House in 2020, the Museum created an online Symposium in four parts highlighting its illustrious builder and past residents of this National Historic Landmark House given by its esteemed historians Betty Coykendall, Lisa Johnson, and Sherra Palmer.

See 2020 Tercentenary Symposium

Hours of Operation 

By Appointment: Group tours for six or more must be arranged in advance. Tours outside regular hours are available by arrangement. 
The last tour begins at 3:30 PM.

Monday - Tuesday

Closed

Wednesday - Saturday

12:00pm – 04:00pm

Sunday

Closed

Stanley-Whitman House is closed on the following holidays

New Year's Day, Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Good Friday, Easter, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Indigenous Peoples Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day.
Stanley-Whitman House's gardens are open to the public daily from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

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