Tanner House Museum offers holiday tours

The 1857 Tanner House Museum will be decorated for the holidays and open for free self-guided tours on eight days in December, beginning Sunday, Dec. 11.

The home of the prominent William and Anna Tanner family, now owned and operated as a house museum by the Aurora Historical Society, is decorated for the holidays each year by volunteer decorators and designers.

This year the participants are Claudia Randolph (parlor), Scott Sherwood (library), Beverly Robinson of Trinity Flowers and Gifts (upstairs bedroom), Mary Clark Ormond (dining room), Barbed Wire Betties roller derby team (downstairs bedroom), Surekha and Ankita Pal (sitting room), Patti Baroni (kitchen) and Pauline Fohrman (master bedroom).

The house will be open from 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 11 and 18; 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Dec. 14, 21 and 28; and from 4 to 7 p.m. Fridays, Dec. 16, 23 and 30, at 304 Oak Ave., Aurora. The house will be closed on Christmas Day.

Admission is free, but donations are appreciated. For more information, contact aurorahistory.net, Facebook at aurorahistory, or (630) 906-0650.

If you go

What: Tanner House Museum holiday tours

When: 1 to 4 p.m. Sundays, Dec. 11 and 18; 1 to 4 p.m. Wednesdays, Dec. 14, 21 and 28; and 4 to 7 p.m. Fridays, Dec. 16, 23 and 30

Where: Tanner House Museum, 304 Oak Ave., Aurora

Cost: Free, donations appreciated

Info: aurorahistory.net or (630) 906-0650