Hayes Home Holidays

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Spiegel Grove, Fremont

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | December 21 & 22 Tours will be offered from 5 to 8 p.m. Enjoy an evening tour of the Hayes Home as it is lightly decorated for Christmas in a historically accurate manner, learn about Christmas and New Year’s traditions and make your own holiday memories. Before or after […]

Lights of Spiegel Grove

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Spiegel Grove, Fremont

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | 6 p.m. Get in the holiday spirit by seeing Spiegel Grove light up for Christmas. Sip warming hot chocolate and snack on popcorn by the campfire. See the “Hayes Train Special” model train display. Visit with Kris Kringle, the name President Hayes used for Santa. (Lighting, refreshments, train display […]

Lights of Spiegel Grove

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Spiegel Grove, Fremont

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | 6 p.m. Get into the holiday spirit by seeing Spiegel Grove light up for Christmas with more festive lights added to the grounds this year during Lights of Spiegel Grove on Thursday, Dec. 8. This event is from 6 to 8 p.m. at Spiegel Grove, the grounds of the Hayes Presidential […]

Mustering Memory: 160 Years of Saluting the Civil War

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Spiegel Grove, Fremont

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | April 14 through April 2023 If anything is certain, it is that for 160 years, the United States has been uncertain with how best to remember the Civil War. Each generation has handled the war’s legacy in its own way, often reflecting its own values and experiences in doing […]

Lights of Spiegel Grove

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Spiegel Grove, Fremont

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | 6 p.m. Admission is free. Some events require paid tickets. Get in the holiday spirit by seeing Spiegel Grove light up for Christmas. Sip warming hot chocolate and snack on popcorn by the campfire. Enter the gingerbread house contest and see the “Hayes Train Special” model train display. This event […]

Hayes Train Special

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center Spiegel Grove, Fremont

Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center | December 15-January 2 The Hayes Presidential Library & Museums is showcasing an intricate model train display through Jan. 2. The multi-tiered display winds through a Victorian winter wonderland reminiscent of President Rutherford B. Hayes' day. This year, the display is in the museum auditorium to allow for more physical […]