WRHS Tours

In the Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum, nearly 200 antique, vintage, and classic automobiles, ranging from model T's to modern-day Jaguars, tell about Cleveland's early leadership in the auto and aviation industries.

The History Museum features rotating exhibits and a mansion built in 1911. The Hay-McKinney Mansion reflects the lifestyles of the rich and famous, and of the servants whose lives differed dramatically from the mainhouse glamour.

The Chisholm Halle Costume Wing is always “dressed to the nines” with one of the finest collections in the nation, boasting more than 30,000 garments to choose from for rotating exhibits. The collection is particularly strong in women’s 19th and 20th century fashion. It also includes including headgear, footwear, undergarments, uniforms, infant clothing, menswear and more than 1,000 ranging in date from 1756 to the present. This enormous assortment of items has one single common characteristic: they belonged to, or were worn by, people in the Western Reserve region.

The Library is filled with histories, records, and papers relating to the growth and development of Cleveland and the Western Reserve. It's the perfect place to learn more about your family's history since the Library holds one of the finest collections of genealogical research materials in the nation. The Library holds archives specifically for African Americans, Irish, Jewish and Cleveland sports history.

There is also an on-site museum store which offers items related to all portions of our facility: a large variety of auto-aviation related books and gift items; Victorian gifts, paper and jewelry; Cleveland history books; local interest items; and a large selection of classic children's toys and books.

To book a tour, contact the Sales Manager: 216/721-5722 ext. 290 / acochenour@wrhs.org

Group Rates: $7.50 adults, $6.50 Seniors, $4 Students.

Parking: Free Motorcoach Parking. The price for the WRHS Parking is a flat rate of $8.

Days and Hours: The History Museum and Crawford Auto-Aviation Museum are open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. The Library is open Tuesday-Saturday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

NEW - Scavenger Hunts for groups. Click here to view a copy of the scavenger hunt. Print copies off for your group and anyone who fills it out and returns it to the Museum Store will receive 10% off a purchase that day.

Click here to view the University Circle Inc. guide to visiting the circle.

Local Hotels:

The Glidden House: Karol Germany (216) 231-8900 www.gliddenhouse.com

Hampton Inn Downtown Cleveland: Carrie Borisa (216) 241-6600 ext. 2061 www.hamptoninn.com/hi/cleveland-downtown

Holiday Inn Express Hotel & Suites - Downtown: David Minah (216) 443-1000 www.hiexpress.com/clevelanddtnoh

InterContinental Hotel Cleveland: (216) 707-4101 http://cleveland.intercontinental.com/

Hale Farm & Village in Bath, OH

Travel a few miles and a over a 100 years to Hale Farm & Village. Explore life in Ohio’s Western Reserve just as the nation was on the brink of civil war. Visit with “Wheatfield Village” residents as they struggle with how the war between the states impacts their daily lives on the Ohio home front. Subsequent seasons at Hale Farm will see us progress through the remainder of the Civil War ending with the year 1865. Join us to learn about the impact of the war on the civilians left behind on the Ohio home front. Visitors can watch as skilled artisans demonstrate glassblowing, blacksmithing and pottery making, as well as domestic crafts such as spinning and weaving, candlemaking and basketmaking. And what farm would be complete without horses, pigs, cows and sheep?

To book a tour, contact: Emma Wing, 330-666-3711 x. 223 / or ewing@wrhs.org

Group admission rates for self-guided tour (10 or more guests) are $13 for adults, $11 for seniors, $6 for children ages 3-12 and children under 3 are admitted free. Advanced registration is required for all groups. To schedule a group tour at Hale Farm & Village contact the Group Sales Coordinator at (330) 666-3711, or toll free in Ohio (800) 589-9703.

Special admission rates are $6.00 for handi-capped/mentally challenged adults, $6.00 for handicapped/mentally challenged children, $6.00 for chaperones (varies),

Parking: FREE

Days and Hours: Hale Farm & Village is open daily Memorial Day Weekend through Labor Day Weekend. Wednesday - Saturday 11 a.m. - 5 p.m., Sunday, Noon - 5 p.m. September 26 through October 31st: Wednsday - Friday 9:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. Special programs are available in the months November through March.

Shandy Hall in Geneva, OH

The Harper family's 1815 home is so rich with detail, you'll swear you hear the swish of a skirt behind you or the metallic scrape of a cook pot in the kitchen.

Modest in appearance on the exterior, there are 17 rooms inside, including the original cellar kitchen with cooking fireplace, bake oven, and a splendid banquet room with coved ceiling and early nineteenth century scenic French wallpaper. On the grounds, original shrubs and trees shade flower and herb gardens.

Robert Harper built a four room home in 1815, then over the next twenty years transformed the house into what was considered a mansion. The two generations that succeeded Robert Harper took great care to preserve the furnishings, tools, and traditions that exist today at Shandy Hall.

To book a tour contact: 216/721-5722 ext 228 / pershey@wrhs.org

Group Rates: $4 for adults and $3 for seniors and students

Parking: FREE

Days and Hours: May - October, Saturday 11am to 5 p.m. or by appointment.

Loghurst in Canfield, OH.

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries, Loghurst was home to several families of farmers, each of whom placed their own special marks on the house through additions, interior renovations, and preservation.

Today, Loghurst is open to the public for tours and educational programs, and invites visitors to experience life in a turn of the 20th century farm house, surrounded by the furniture and implements of the Kyle family, the last family to live in the home. Tours of the house introduce visitors to a typical kitchen, dining room and parlor of the period, while sharing lifestyle information and stories from all the house's previous inhabitants. Recent improvements at Loghurst have helped to recreate the original landscape of the house, severely hampered in the mid-1900's by highway construction and expansion, and the renovated carriage barn offers visitor amenities, meeting and rental space. The museum shop, also located in the carriage barn, offers a wide variety of souvenirs, including hand-crafted items from Hale Farm & Village, special Loghurst items, books on a variety of historical and preservation topics, and an assortment of children's toys from the 1800's.

To book a tour contact: Laura Zeh at 330/533-4330 / LZEH@wrhs.org

Group Rates: $4 adults $3 students and seniors, free for children 5 years and younger.

Parking: FREE

Day and Hours: Loghurst is open to the public 11 am to 4 pm., Saturdays & Sundays June through October. Open certain weekends in December for special programs. Groups tours are welcome by appointment.

Preservation Facility in Macedonia, OH

The Macedonia Preservation Facility is where the Crawford Auto- Aviation Museum stores vehicles not currently on display in the museum. This facility is also home to oversized vehicles in the collection that are too large to be displayed in the Crawford.

Mechanical work on the Crawford vehicles is performed here by a staff of volunteers. While the facility is not equipped to do full restorations, the Crawford Volunteers can do nearly any mechanical job necessary to keep the vehicles running.

Click here to view a one page fact sheet on the Preservation Facility.

To book a tour contac the Sales Manager: (216) 721-5722 x. 290 /acochenour@wrhs.org

Only availiable for groups. Not open to the general public.

Group Rates: Tuesdays during the day or Wednesdays 6 p.m. or after $200 for up to 20 participants, each guest thereafter $5 each. All other times $250 for up to 20 participants, $5 for each additional participant.

Parking: FREE

Days and Hours: Open by appointment only.