Connect with National Trust Historic Sites from across the country with a selection of virtual events, exhibitions, and opportunities in January. Learn about all 27 National Trust Historic Sites and view their upcoming virtual events here.

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Behind the Scenes: The Recreation of a Tenement
Thursday, January 7, 2021, 7:00 P.M. ET  
Free; Donation suggested 

Online visitors will get a behind-the-scenes look at the process and philosophy of New York City’s Lower East Side Tenement Museum’s recreated historic spaces during this virtual hard hat tour. Learn what it takes to recreate apartments from the 1860s and 1930s with before-and-after pictures, highlights of architectural details, and interviews with the experts who did the work. 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

Virtual Book Talk: Five Points 
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 7:00 P.M. ET
Free; Donation suggested

Meet the Schneiders 

• Saturday, January 15, 2021 at 4 P.M. ET 
• Tuesday, January 26, 2021 at 4 P.M. ET 

$15/device, free for Museum members
 
Meet the Baldizzi Family 

• Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 4:00 P.M. ET 
• Saturday, January 23, 2021 at 1:00 P.M. ET 
• Saturday, January 30, 2021 at 11:30 A.M. ET 

$10/device, free for Museum members 
 

Farnsworth House

Architea—Anything He Can Do She Can Do Better: The Women Designers of Mid-Century Modernism 
Sunday, January 10, 2021, 2 P.M. CT  
$20 per participant 

In this virtual presentation from Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois, join the discussion on how women designers—often working behind the scenes of their more famous male counterparts—helped to revolutionize American tastes and the American domestic interior. Bring your favorite lamp, snuggle up in your favorite fake Eames chair, or get your beehive on like it’s 1955. 
 

Belle Grove Manor House

The Writing Is on the Wall: A Tour of Belle Grove's Attic Graffiti 
Tuesday, January 19, 2021, 12 P.M. ET 
Free to attend 

The tradition of signing the attic walls at the Belle Grove Manor House in Middletown, Virginia, began during the Civil War and continued until 2011. Visitors to this Zoom virtual tour will get exclusive access to all 557 signatures and hear the stories behind the graffiti.
 

The President Woodrow Wilson House

The Arc of Suffrage: A Talk by Jamie Stiehm and Lucy Lang  
Tuesday, January 26, 2021, 12 P.M. ET 

The day before he was sworn in as president in 1913, Woodrow Wilson was met by a modern suffrage parade organized by Alice Paul, a young Quaker. Women's suffrage had gone outside to the streets with the result that Wilson was the first president to face the Votes for Women movement day in, day out, for years. Presented by The President Woodrow Wilson House in Washington, D.C., listen in as Jamie Stiehm and Lucy Lang discuss the arc of the modern 20th-century women’s suffrage movement. 
 

UPCOMING EVENTS 

Enemy Talk to Fake News; 100 Years of Political Propaganda: A Talk with Jack M. Hamilton  
Tuesday, January 12, 2021, 12 P.M. 

A Virtual Tour of Suffrage Outside: The 19th Amendment at 100 
Thursday, January 21, 2021, 5:30 P.M.