Tours
Feb 16th, 2009 by MembershipWebTeam
If you are looking for information about our popular city-wide home tours,
please click here: HISTORIC SNOHOMISH HOME TOURS.
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Docent led tours of the Blackman House are offered on Sunday afternoons at 1, 2 and 3pm throughout the year. Between May and December we add Saturday afternoons to the schedule.
A $5 suggested donation includes tea and goodies.
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We Welcome Private Tours of the Blackman House Museum. The content is geared to the interests and ages of the group; and for our elderly visitors, the tour features the use of the family parlor to sit while listening to the story of the historic home. Self-guided (and optional) tours are available to the second floor bedrooms.
Visitors from the Issaquah Valley Senior Center arrived in Snohomish on October 21, 2009 in two vans. While one group ate lunch at the Cabbage Patch Restaurant the other toured the Blackman House Museum. The tour includes a a half-hour story of how the Blackman House came to be in Early Snohomish and how the Society purchased it in 1970.
Of particular interest to the men in the group was the Blackman’s extensive collection of old 78rpm records. The collection had been logged by hand in notebook that lists every record in the collection .
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About a dozen visitors from the Redmond Senior Center visited our house museum on September 30, 2008. The tour features an opportunity to sit down in the “Family Parlor” of the home for a background talk on how the Society came to own the house 40 years ago.
[Click on the image above to view a slide show of the tour]
To arrange a tour leave a message at 360.568.5235 or use the CONTACT US tab above.
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The TIGER CUB DEN, the majority of which are pictured here with tour guide Warner Blake, toured the museum on Wednesday afternoon, February 25, 2009. The first graders from Dutch Hill Elementary were on scouts’ best behavior, and were very interested in the use of chamber pots and totally absorbed in a discussion about out what’s involved when you flush an indoor toilet.
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This message via email from Heather Norris:
“Thanks again [Warner] for the great tour. I have referenced it several times already in conversations with my children. In fact, my kids asked me a question the other day that I could not answer…maybe you can. We went to Pilchuck Park and they asked if it was named after Pilchuck Julia. Or, was she named after the river that she lived along?”