Lower East Side Tenement Museum

We chose the shops tour. This is no reflection on our tour guide who was knowledgeable and articulate. I felt that the script that she was given was not only limited in its information, but very juvenile in its format. This tour would work well for elementary school children, but not for the adults who paid $ 25 a person.

I can’t recommend this museum enough. We went on the Irish Outsiders tour and Natalie was our guide. Our tour began outside the museum gift shop, and then we walked around the block to 97 Orchard. The tour was based on a real Irish family who lived here in the 1860s. We got to see the inside of their small apartment and view photographs of the family. We got a sense of their daily lives and the unique hardships they faced as Irish immigrants.
I encourage visitors to choose a tour which reflects their ethnic heritage, as this makes it more personal. However, I would gladly go on any of the tours again. It was a wonderful experience and really helps you appreciate the immigrant experience.

A very real representation of what interiors and living conditions were like back then for families that squeezed in all together into one apartment room. Makes you really gain perspective on life. It was overall a short tour for the price paid but educational and a good experience.

This was my fourth visit to my favorite museum in the city and it never disappoints! I did the 90 min Shop Life tour which journeys through the recreated basement saloon, the owner’s living space, and a butcher and undergarment discounter’s shopfront. Our tour guide Renee was the perfect educator, captivating our group of 13 and tackling every question with ease!
I brought my parents who are claustrophobic and were initially wary of standing in the confined tenement spaces with a large group on a hot day. Not only was this particular tour air conditioned, but there’s plenty of sitting room along the way.
The highlight of the tour was the independent time we were given to interact with real artifacts from the final room’s shelves where you could navigate their history via sensory technology tables. You could read different backstories and hear fascinating audio clips. I can’t recommend this one enough!

Came here for The Culinary Mystery of Hinde Amchanitzky talk on ⁵⁄₂₅. Extraordinary experience. The event was very educational, well organized, absolutely free! Hinde wrote the first known cook book ever in US. She was one of the first few female immigrants to open a business, a very popular restaurant in the Lower East Side, at the time. The book was in Yiddish, and it doesn’t only provide recipes but also home-​care guidance to many young female Jewish immigrants of the time. The talk brought the history alive. Jane Ziegelman, author of 97 Orchard, was a great speechmaker. Fresh blueberry pie and orange pudding were made following the recipes in the book and served to attendants. I loved the orange pudding. They made me realized of how simple, fresh and honest the food was prepared back then. «This tenement apartment building was home to nearly 7000 working class immigrants,» according to their site. Fascinating~. This is one of greatest gifts to be living in NYC. We get to live among many historical places with beautiful architects and cultural richness. I have to come back for a tour of the place.

I’ve been wanting to check this place out for a couple of years. I have some mixed feelings about it. We selected the Sweatshop Workers tour. I can only speak to that one.
Our guide was great. Personable. Knew his shit. Enthusiastic.
I learned a lot about this part of the city from a historical perspective. The apartments are definitely small, but still a little larger than I had imagined.
The HUGE downside was how hot it was. It was nearly 90 degrees today. Inside the museum it felt like 120. The tour is only an hour, but we were all feeling a little nauseous from heat stroke by the end. I wish there were more chairs or something since you can’t lean against anything. Maybe it would be a 5 star tour another time of the year.

A «must see»! Captures the spirit of immigration to the US. Definitely worth spending a few hours here.

«Hard Times» 60min. tour. It lasted about ¹¹⁄₂ hours, you get your money’s worth. You actually go in the tenement building and see how the apartments looked like — not cleaned up, painted over, modernized. You see the exposed layers on the walls, exposed pipes, furniture, relics.
Please try to use native New Yorkers at least, for the tour guides. They seem to be transplanted out of state young people who just memorize facts. Every time I asked her about the relics, she said, «Good question, I have to find out.» She talked mostly about the family facts, not the tenement itself.
This particular tour talked about a German family and an Italian family — she talked about the German family an hour and the Italian family for 10 min.
The museum shop had the usual «Made in China» trinkets that you can buy in any NYC tourist trap souvenir store.

It is a really great family experience. As someone that has lived in new york for six years, it’s always great to learn about the history of the streets walked, buildings lived in.
$ 25 for adults
$ 20 for seniors and students
Free for kids

RAD!!!
We did the «hard times» tour which discussed a German Jewish family and a Sicilian family. The tenement is lovingly restored. The stories. .. to say compelling is a huge understatement. This museum honors the past and is increasingly relevant today. I can’t wait to try more tours!

I’m in no way a history buff, and in fact often find things like this kind of boring, but the tour I took here was excellent. We went on the «Shop Life» tour, which is longer than the others (90 mins, most are only an hour) and focused on the storefront shops in the basement level of the Tenement Museum instead of the housing units themselves. Can’t recommend it enough, and can’t wait to return for the other tour offerings.
The tour groups are relatively small and so they tend to sell out quickly (at least on the weekends, not sure if this is always the case). If you can, stop by a few hours in advance to buy your tickets, and then grab some food on the LES in the meantime. For those with kids in tow, the tour was a nice combination of interactive activities and listening to the guide talk, so the 90 minutes really flew by.

It was a very cold day in NYC, and we were concerned that it might be too cold for this museum, but our fears were unfounded. Aside from having to walk outside for about 50 feet for the «Shop Life» tour, the rest was inside.
The experience starts with a 30 looping movie that describes Tenement life in graphic detail, with many photos and descriptions from experts as well as some tenants. It really gives one a feel for the tough living conditions as well as the can-​do spirit of the people who came to America to start a new life. (Don’t skip this part.)
The tours are intentionally kept small, about 15 people, so that you can get a feel for the others’ immigration stories (if American) or stories from their nation of origin. This was key, because it makes the group feel like they have been thrown together with strangers and are now beginning a common journey, just as the immigrants must have felt. You then «learn by doing», have a little social hour in the German beer hall with the others, who have each been given a card with a persona from circa 1865. We then learned what the other three (tiny) rooms were used for, and saw how a shopkeeper lived.
I should say that throughout the experience our tour guide Darryl filled us with his knowledge of the period. His world of experiences, jovial demeanor, and vast knowledge made the tour a real treat.
Two things I didn’t like — the theater for the film was far too small to accommodate the number of people (though it was a very busy weekend), and the constant shrill voice of the coordinator who gathered the tours every 15 minutes, interrupting the movie.
All-​in-​all, we enjoyed it and will likely return to take the other tours. It was a very good experience.

I visited the museum with a friend on a cold Valentine’s Day and it was packed; the only tour available was «Meet Victoria» ($ 25) about an hour after we got there close to 3pm.
We waited the hour in the shop, including watching a 30 minute video on the history of the museum (screening room in the back of the shop) and putting our backpacks in the lockers downstairs (for 25 cents). The time went by very quickly.
The movie was great. It made me realize that the museum includes the specific history of *my* great-​grandparents & grandparents, Eastern-​European Jewish immigrants who arrived in NYC in the early 20^th century and worked in the NYC sweatshops (making purses, specifically). I don’t know why, but I didn’t realize that the museum focused quite a bit on that history. Made it feel oddly (and wonderfully) personal.
The tour was also great. The actress who played Victoria and the guide who acted as a Settlement House teacher really seemed to embody their roles. I was especially impressed by how they handled presenting the tension immigrants face (d) wanting to hold on to home culture but being pressured to become «good Americans.“It was fun to interact with them as well as the others in our tour group, who were from all over the world, and I honestly learned quite a lot.
After my visit, I described to my mother what I had learned, saying, «I didn’t realize Sephardic Jews also came to the U.S. from Greece.» She responded (in classic fashion), «Ugggh, I’ve FAILED AS A MOTHER.» Ummmm, so maybe don’t mention what you learn to your Jewish mother… but do go! Very interactive; I think anyone would love it.

We were able to buy same-​day tickets for the Hard Times tour. It was easy to buy tickets online, and we picked them up from will-​call.
Like others, we passed the waiting time quickly by browsing books at the gift shop.
After a short introduction and house rules (don’t lean against the walls, no photography, no beverages besides water), we entered the bldg.
Thanks to our knowledgable tour guide, we learned how historical events and laws shaped the lives of two families. It’s amazing to see how far we’ve come due to progressive reforms.

Visit this museum! I heard about it on the Stuff You Missed in History Class podcast (
), which I would recommend listening to prior to your visit, as it gives you a lot of really great background and context. The museum is pricey (I think the shortest tour is still $ 25 – 35?) but I thought it was well worth it. I would recommend the longer tour – I took the shortest one as I was in NYC on a work trip and had a weird break between morning meetings and an evening event and that’s all I could fit in, and was left wanting more. Especially for the price tag I think it would just be better to spend more time seeing more of the museum.
**Be warned that the apartments are meant to be realistic, so if it’s summer they are hot (no A/​C) and crowded, and if it’s winter they are colllld and crowded.**
I did the sweatshop tour, as I work in field related to workforce development/​preventing labor trafficking and thought it would be the easiest for me to slip into, and I was not disappointed. Remembering that much of what developing countries are struggling with is something that the U.S. struggled with in our recent history is really helpful context for me professionally, but was also just interesting as an American. Moving beyond glamourized versions of the Roaring 20s or whatever other epoch of American history is just really… real.

This spot was the 2^nd stop on the squads day tour of NYC. I was a bit skeptical at first when the Drunken Goat recommended this museum. I said «Goat, why do I wanna see some run down crib when I can just go back to mine.» Man was I misinformed. Gotta hand it to Goat, the boy knows his history.
We started the tour and each gave a little intro about ourselves. I said I had a rap album out if anyone was interested, but it wasn’t exactly a hip hop audience. This one dude came all the way from rhode island to see this place. The tour guide led us into this tenement and dropped a ton of knowledge about the 1860’s on us. Yo, I never knew the struggle these immigrants went through. Never seen such incredible perseverance. I thought i had it rough, but not as rough as these cats. The tour guide painted a picture of daily life that actually got me a bit choked up. Or maybe it was just the dust. Whatever though. This tour was da bomb.
Things did get a bit awkward at the end of the tour though. Yung Jonse was so impressed by this place she ended up trying on one of the old dresses and claimed to be the ghost of one of these immigrants. They wasn’t buying it though and she was quickly escorted off the premises.
I’d give this place 6 stars if possible. Oh and make sure you hit up the gift shop. Goat picked up a little jewish haiku book for each of his 8 kids.

I was here once before but for some reason I didn’t write the review then. Oh well, I am happy to write about the Tenement Museum now. This is a hidden gem on the Lower East Side. Although it is named the museum it is more of a tour and story experience, as opposed to a typical stroll and look type museum.
The Tenement Museum offers several different tours. Each tour has a theme, usually based on a specific time frame, family, or situation, of people or persons living in tenements in New York City.
I’ve taken 2 different tours thus far, «hard times», and «sweatshop workers.» Both tours offer a walkthrough of a couple of tenements that have been made to look like they would have during the time period the story is discussed.
I don’t particularly like long talks about history, but the tours I took were 1 hour and the other one and a half hours. Just enough time to listen, to look, and to get a good feeling of how things were back when. The tour guides are exceptionally knowledgeable, well spoken, and do an overall nice job.
There’s also a quick movie in me Museum Shop, and there are trinkets books and other souvenirs you can purchase if you so choose. I recommend giving this place a try if you are visiting New York, or if you live in New York.

This is a FANTASTIC museum! Nothing like being INSIDE the very apartments (tenements) of immigrant families back in the late 1880s and early 1900s and hearing about how they tried to build a new life in America. It truly feels like stepping inside a time capsule. Our tour guides (called educators) were enthusiastic and knowledgable. They did an amazing job in helping us understand how these families lived.
Each tour (1 per floor) revolves around one overarching theme but our educators also painted a more complete image for us. I found it very interesting how this building was abandoned for 50+ years after it was shut down by the owner because he didn’t want to renovate the building to comply with new housing regulations in 1935. There are 22 tenements in the building and they estimate, based on documents and layers of wallpapers, that 7,000 families have lived there between 1863 and 1935. The Museum was also able to track down some of the children to recreate the tenements as they had remembered it.
– In Sweatshop Workers (3^rd floor), Lauren showed us the homes of the Levine (Polish) and Rogarshevsky (Lithuanian) families. We saw a recreation of the Levine family’s parlor room, which doubled as a sweatshop for making dresses. By Rogarshevsky’s time, garment factories opened in midtown and became the new sweatshops. Lauren went into details on how the change conflicted with their religion and I got goosebumps just by imagining the guilt and sacrifice these families endured to cling onto the hope that their lives will improve.
– In Hard Times (2^nd floor), Rebeca invited us into the homes of the Grumperz (Prussian) and Baldizzi (Italian) family and shared their survival stories. I loved how the Museum were able to put together photographs of their children and grandchildren to show us what happened to their children and descendants.
– Shoplife (1^st floor) — hoping to check this out this tour in the near future!
– Irish Outsiders (4^th floor) — hoping to check this out this tour in the near future!
We also heard from our educators that they plan on building 3 more tours above the gift shop to cover more immigrant families from other countries. I’m stoked and can’t wait to see them as well.
== Notes ==
— Ticket sales and pick-​ups are in the gift shop at 103 Orchard Street. There’s a separate line and register for tickets.
— Guided tours are free for members (they have different types of memberships).
— The shop makes an overhead announcement when the educators are ready to take the group out of the gift shop and down the block into 97 Orchard Street, which is the actual Tenement Building.
— They have lockers downstairs of the gift shop (requires a quarter to operate but it’s returned to you when you open the locker). I highly recommend stashing any large or heavy bags into the lockers as the tours are held in very small apartments with crowds of 10 – 15 people.
— No photography allowed inside 97 Orchard St.

I’m hovering between 3 – 4 start because it is a cool building but I didn’t love our tour (hard times). I think if you know nothing about this time period in US history, you would learn a lot but if you know some stuff about immigrants and the Gilded Age, I don’t think you’d get a lot out of the tour. I learned almost nothing new. That said, it is really cool to be in the tenement and they have both restored rooms and rooms that are as they were found. I love museums and history and this missed the mark. It may have been my tour guide and I would give it another chance but I’m not excited to go back.

I was really excited to do some tours of this museum after reading soooo many great reviews and I certainly was not disappointed.
My friends and I did the ‘shoplife’ tour followed by ‘hard times’ our guides were incredible and the tour was fun and very interactive. I really felt like I learned a lot about the making of the L.E.S, the different waves of migrants, the first seeds of the prohibition, the culture of community, socialism and assimilation.
The gift shop has many books on different cultures that migrated to New York as well as lots of funny cultural gifts and postcards.
Another really lovely thing about this museum is when you go to tip your guide they tell you not to and that they are paid a proper wage but if you would like to donate to the museum they always appreciate that.
¹⁰⁄₁₀ cannot recommend enough!

Signed up for a walking tour (couldn’t really do any indoor ones since babies aren’t allowed in ‘em). I enjoyed seeing various buildings and hearing the history behind them! There’s a ton to learn about the LES area and how it’s changed throughout the years. Yay to fun facts and being able to ask whatever you want to know to your tour guide!

This museum is f*cking awesome, and it takes the idea of «museum» and turns it on your head. Wanna get a feel for what a Lower East Side tenement was like? Why just look at pictures plastered on a wall about that? Why not GO INTO ONE and get the full visceral experience?! We went on a tour about sweatshop work, when families would run a sewing business out of their cramped one bed-​room apartments. Using census data, the museum actually re-​assembles the story of an actual family who did this kind of work. Incredible!
Bonus. Museum is opening a new tour/​exhibit in a few months on an Asian family, the WONGs! Go Tenement Museum, and go #TeamAZN!

Wonderful — walk through time — experience. Our guide — a high school teacher — was amazing, funny and had a depth of knowledge about the time period, area and culture that was perfect for this type of historic based experience. (we did the one about the garment workers). the building is as is found — after it had been boarded up for 60 plus years. there is a great book shop and intro movie at the corner location. they keep groups small and moving through the rooms.
highly recommend the experience.

I love this museum. It’s so well curated and the guides are amazing! Having not too much knowledge about the area of NY past, this was an amazing insight to it. From the old restored apartments to the visitor experience of the technology they’ve implemented. Amazing! I would definitely go back for some other experiences.

I’ve been visiting the museum since the 90s. It was my go-​to for out-​of-​town visitors. My last 3 visits on various tours are likely my last. Two reasons:
1. The museum crams too many people on each tour. This makes it impossible to see the artifacts being talked about. On two occasions, several guests couldn’t even fit into the same room as the guide. No longer worth the steep $ 25 ticket to ‘imagine’ what the guide is talking about.
2. Also bad (and I realize this may be a personal preference): the tour is loaded with ‘What do you think this is???’ For $ 25, I prefer to be told a riveting story about the past. This newer question-​answer style breaks the spell and waters down the tour. (I’ve had to fill in details for companions based on what I learned from previous visits.)
Nuts, Tenement Museum. You could be so awesome. Why are you doing this?

I came here expecting too much. Full disclose, I work in the museum field and many people I work with /​respect, have told me the Tenement Museum is one of the best museums in New York and the place to go if you are interested in social and immigration history.
My girlfriend and I arrived at one pm and were told that we needed to buy a ticket for 2:15. No problem. We wandered down to Katzs deli (see my review) and then back for our 2 pm your tour.
The format is a guided tour of one of four different apartments, all with a slightly different twist. There is one on «Shop life» and one on Jewish and Italian immigrants. I was dead set on the Irish tour, which promised to explore Irish history through music. Also being an Irish musician I was super stoked.
I knew we were in trouble as soon as we met the guide. She was quite young and enthusiastic but somewhat shy and unsure of herself. Having done was she does multiple times I am sympathetic but not that sympathetic. She proceeded to lead is around the back and up four flights of stairs to the top, where much of the building has been left the way it was found in the 1980s. That was the most interesting part.
Then we were shown a small selection of artifacts and taken into a room where the guides plays Irish songs at you and tells you that Celtic Music was the «first popular music» in America. Full disclosure I’m also a Celtic Musican and while the guide was trying, her interpretation wasn’t super accurate.
Finally we got to the recreated Apartment, that would look like it would in the 19^th century during an Irish wake. Again interesting, but very cursory information from the guide.
So this was an hour and I’m out 25 dollars and I really wish that I could have seen and learned much more. Perhaps the tenement museum could offer a tour that was a bit more in-​depth and maybe went to more than 1 floor. I think the concept is good but I’m not prepared to pay $ 100 just to see every floor of the museum.

This place just became my 2^nd favorite museum in NYC (1^st: Transit Museum). I am madly in love with History. I’m a sucker for anything that tells a story of a different time; old music, old furniture, old architecture, old people (I mean they’re just so cute and wise). Something about historical places and things makes my heart flutter. The tenement museum was like stepping into a time machine.
My friend and I took the Hard Times tour on Sunday ($ 25 regular for 1 hour). It covers the history of the families who lived on the second floor during the early 1900s. Our tour guide Melissa was beyond fantastic. She was so engaging and informative and she made the tour as interactive as possible. She encouraged us to ask questions and pitch in with comments whenever we wanted. It felt like we were a big group of friends just talking and enjoying the space. She didn’t just spew out facts and answer questions like a robot, she made the tour very enjoyable and conversational. So glad she was our guide!
The tour itself takes you through the hallway and the three apartments on the 2^nd floor. The first apartment wasn’t furnished but you get to see the space and the non-​restored walls and floors. The 2^nd apartment told a story of a single mother with two children, this one was was more furnished — but not sure if a lot of it was original pieces. The last apartment was the best one. It was fully furnished and a recording of one of the tenants played while you walked through. The tenant described the space and the activities the family did in the space. The cool thing was that you looked around and got to see what she described as she said it.
The best part of the tour were the photos of the 6 generations of families for each apartment. The tours are pricey but they are worth every penny, just go check it out! I cant wait to return to see the other tours.

I went on the Tenement Tastings tour, which is every Thursday at 6:30pm and lasts about 1.5−2 hours. I approach most things in life with a high dose of skepticism, and so obviously went into this tour with a high dose of skepticism as well. I left the tour incredibly impressed and would recommend it to fellow skeptics!
The tour starts off at the Visitor’s Center at 103 Orchard Street and takes you into the Tenement building itself, and then takes you to the upstairs of the Visitor’s Center for your meal. Your meal is served on small plates and you get to try various foods representative of each «era» of immigration in the Lower East Side. So you get pretzels representative of the German immigrants, prosciutto for the Italians, dumplings for the Chinese, Cubano sandwiches for the Dominicans, etc. The food is actually quite good and the «educators» (your tour guide) does a great job of weaving a historical narrative with the food.
Really good job with this one Tenement Museum. I’ll definitely be back for the other tours!
It is a bit pricey at 35 $ though, but you will leave stuffed!

A reality check is needed here. There is no way this museum deserves such a high rating.
This place is an absolute rip off and disappointment. We chose to the Shop Life tour which was 1.5 hours. There are various tours which lead you through ONE floor of of the tenement building. This initially didn’t phase me as I figured it must be a large building. After all, it says outside the museum it was home to over 7000 tenants. NOPE. This place is tiny.
We asked the person who was selling us the tickets which one was a good tour. No help there. She reassured us «they are all great.» The Shop Life was the next tour available so I inquired about it. She assured us that was a GREAT choice. Then another employee chimes in «oh yeah Shop Life is excellent one its one of my favorites!» $ 75 later for three people (25 bones a ticket) we were on our way down the street excited and hopeful given the solid rating on Unilocal.NOPE!
The tour guide was a nice guy but super boring. He funneled 14 of us into the basement level sat us down in the old saloon and proceeded to endlessly babble and name drop, date drop countless pointless facts about random tenants. So many names it was impossible to tell who was important verses who he just said the name off for the sake of saying the name.
Occasionally he’d pass around some laminated piece of paper with some fact that he had just recited to us. To make it more «exciting» he passed a beer growler, mallet and beer spigot.
He seemed to be stalling. He then proceeded to pull out a deck of cards with more names of people of thr past and their occupations. All of a sudden he passing out the cards and we’re being forced into some sort of role playing game with other people on the tour. Call me antisocial but I didn’t sign up for this.
After tormenting us for 35 minutes in the saloon we were led 5 feet into the next room where we spent 15 more minutes subjected to endless babbling and minutia.
We were then led 5 more feet into the kitchen more babbling, random names, dates, laminated newspaper clippings.
5 more feet we were funneled into the bedroom.
Then to a dilapidated room where we gathered around a case. This was the finale folks. SPOILER ALERT. The case had shreds of old news paper, a beer stein that look like a standard glass mug that was apparently found in the bathroom and GASP… a pair of original panties that had been donated to the museum. My eyes were nearly rolling out of my head at this point.
At this point I was pissed. $ 75 for this? I wasn’t listening to the guide anymore at this point. I was just think of the million other ways we could have better spent our money in NYC. I was regretful of the hour of my time that had been wasted.
Last and basically on the other side of a tin wall that separated us from the saloon we had just spent so much time in was the «auction house.» There was some sort of interactive exhibit where you take various objects and set them on the counter and listen to a blurb through an ear piece. Snore…
So in summary not impressed and I do not recommend. Unilocal really led us astray. The store was closed for inventory so we didn’t get a chance to browse the store.

I did the Shop Life tour today and it was soo great. The guide was super knowledgeable and made the experience immersive and fun. Tickets are a little steep at $ 25 per tour but it’s such a cool and unique experience that I think it’s worth it.
Unlike most other historical museums, the Tenement Museum emphasizes the history and experiences of common people, which I thought was an awesome change of pace.
Note: not all the tours are in air-​conditioned spaces, if you’re visiting in summer make sure to ask when you book.

My friends had booked our group of 4 to have the Hard Times tour at the Tenement Museum for 12pm on just this past Sunday. The tickets were 25 dollars each and she had booked them weeks in advance online but we picked up the tickets at the museum store/​office just beforehand.
Besides the outside of the building photography was forbidden so I do not have any photos of the rooms on the tour.
The tour takes us just a couple doors down to 95 Orchard which was at one time a tenement building with none of the amenities which we enjoy present day. A small group of about a dozen was guided into the main corridor of 95 Orchard and then up the stairs to the 2^nd floor.
The story behind the building was that back in the late 1880’s there was a family that occupied the building and the guide tells of the known history of the building and people that occupied the building during that era. She went on to explain in detail the uses for each room and what the materials were as well as the conditions at the time.
One room was pretty much left untouched to the condition it is today while another adjacent space was recreated with artifacts of the era and put together as it may have been used and how it looked during that era of the late 1800’s. The history of the family using that space had been traced back and to the present day with photos of the descendants of the occupants.
Moving across the hall we move to the era of the 1930’s. By this time NYC laws have made it mandatory to have amenities such as running water, toilets and electricity. This family also had a story based on the historical research that the museum was able to gather as well as one of the occupants that was interviewed and recorded giving an audio description of what it was like living in the space her family occupied in the 1930’s.
This area also had artifacts from the era and the space recreated as well as the findings of the descendants, photographs and present day locations.
This tour is almost like taking a time machine back to these eras because the building has been preserved and you are given the opportunity to walk into this area and see the rooms up close.
Our tour guide was very professional as well as quite knowledgeable about the families who occupied these spaces during those times.
There are several more tours to do besides the ones we did so it would be wonderful to return and do some of the others. The building itself shows it’s age since some of it has not been disturbed and much as been left the way was to present day.