Home Closed for Restoration

The Matilda Joslyn Gage Home is closed for restoration and will be open for events and tours late this spring. Mark your calendars for the Grand Opening October 8-10, 2010.

In the meantime, talks by Gage speakers are available off-site. Contact the foundation at (315) 637-9511 or foundation@MatildaJoslynGage.org to request a speaker. Talks by Gage Foundation Executive Director Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner are available through the Speakers in the Humanities Program of the New York Council for the Humanities.

When we reopen (watch this website for the date), we expect to have the Gage Home open to visitors from 10:00 - 4:00 on Saturday and Monday. Tours and special events will be generally available, with adequate lead time, Tuesday through Thursday, and Sundays.

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Basic Tour
Not currently available. Will resume once restoration is complete.

For those who are curious about Gage and would like to see her home. An introduction to Matilda Joslyn Gage and her work. Led by a trained volunteer docent.

Donation: $5.00 per person, or $6.00 including refreshments.

Field Trips and Children’s Tour
Not currently available. Will resume once restoration is complete.

For School and Scout groups. An explanation of what life was like for girls and women in the 19th century, touching upon voting rights, property rights, education, the “woman’s sphere,” dress reform, slavery, the Underground Railroad, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois), L. Frank Baum, and Gage’s work in all of these areas, including her ideas of true patriotism. Led by a trained volunteer docent. Please let us know children’s  age/grade level and any special interests and areas of study so that the presentation can be tailored appropriately.

Donation: $3.00 per person.

Individualized Tea and Tour
Not currently available. Will resume once restoration is complete.

For persons specifically interested in Gage, women’s history, or Central New York history. A recreation of a 19th century woman’s rights tea in the parlor where Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Matilda Joslyn Gage planned their revolution and where L. Frank Baum married Gage’s youngest daughter, Maud. While having refreshments, an experienced Gage docent will discuss (tailored to your individual interests) any or all of the major areas of Gage’s life and work:

• her leadership in the woman’s rights movement;
• her work in abolition and the Underground Railroad ;
• the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) connection to the suffragettes;
• Gage’s influence on L. Frank Baum and the Oz stories;
• Gage’s fight for freedom from religion; and
• her subsequent erasure from history.

Questions and comments are encouraged.

Donation: $10.00 per person. Minimum three people, maximum 30.

Also available

• Group meetings and retreats at the Gage House. Not currently available; will be once restoration is complete.
• Talks by Gage Foundation Executive Director, Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner through the Speakers in the Humanities Program of the New York Council for the Humanities.

For more information, contact us at (315) 637-9511 or foundation@MatildaJoslynGage.org.