What a year! Thank you to all the event attendees, tour takers, Biergarten visitors, and program partners who shaped 2025 at the Heurich House Museum. We’re looking forward to another year with you and the building that makes it all possible.

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What’s the Heurich House without a house? And what’s a house that you can’t get around? We're working to replace the house’s elevator, as the current one dates from 1987 and has been out of service multiple times this year. This has stopped people from attending tours, programs, and getting inside.

What’s the Heurich House without a house? And what’s a house without a roof? We are working to replace the roof systems on the historic mansion and carriage house. Without a secure roof protecting the rest of the building, everything we do at the Museum is in jeopardy.

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What’s the Heurich House without a house? And what’s a house that you can’t keep warm?

What’s the Heurich House without a house? And what’s a house without windows? 🪟 We are working to restore the house’s 135 historic windows because they are drafty and let in moisture, increasing the risk of damage to the building structure and historic objects inside.

Help us preserve the building’s exterior and protect its interior by making a tax-deductible year-end donation: heurichhouse.org/pages/2025-d...

What’s the Heurich House without a house? The Heurich House Museum building is our most important artifact.

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This weekend, get in the holiday spirit and explore dozens of local makers at @heurichhouse.bsky.social's Christmas Markt (we’re proud to be a sponsor!) And just down the street from the DC History Center, discover even more at the DowntownDC Holiday Market.

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Insanely perfect: fantastic little bouquet of flowers in a glass vase by Daniel Seghers of Antwerp, painter & Jesuit priest, whose day is today.

Happy #GivingTuesday! Today, we’re asking for your help to raise $2500 so that we can continue preserving the Heurich House building, our most important artifact.

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How many people contribute to your dinner experiences today? Who works behind the scenes to make it all possible? The work of artisans and craftspeople made the Heurich family’s Thanksgiving experience - and all family dinners - possible.

We went to visit the New Bedford Whaling Museum today and I saw a great response to the claim that we can’t have DC statehood because it would make the flag look funny.

Hayward & Hutchinson - located at 424 19th St NW - tiled the floor in the conservatory of Christian and Mathilde’s first home just a few blocks away from H&H at 1218 19th St NW in 1889. They also supplied Italian marble saddles, or thresholds. (1/8)

In 1888, the Heurich family’s farm, named “Bellvue,” in Price George’s Country Maryland went through a series of renovations led by architect J.G. Meyers (the same architect that designed the Heurich House we know today and renovated the first Heurich family home on 19th St NW). (1/6)

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Check out these seasonal pop-up markets around the region, where you’ll find homemade goods, vintage items, locally-crafted artworks, holiday decor, and other gifts.

Give the gift of a year of community this holiday season! A Heurich House Museum gift membership won’t sit in the corner collecting dust. It’s perfect for...

🏠 1218 19th St NW: Christian & Mathilde Heurich’s first home together Christian and Mathilde married in 1887 and lived in a house on 19th St NW, directly behind the original Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. (1/6)

Museum Members 🤝 Maker Fellows Last month, the two makers (Abloom & D'bohomama) in our pilot fellowship program presented some new products and booth set-ups to a test audience of our members.

To make the main hallway fireplace mantel: 🔨 Carpenters and joiners would have framed it 🗜️ Cabinet makers specialized at making detailed wooden furniture, would have hand crafted the mantel (1/5)

On Veteran’s Day, we remember people who worked for the Heurich family and served in the military. There were likely many more people who served whose names we don’t know - including the craftspeople and artisans whose stories we’re currently researching.

Each part of the Heurich home represents multiple layers of labor - how do we uncover them?

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We’re proud to share that our Humanities Scholar-in-Residence, Neil Flanagan (@jgbollard.bsky.social), has published a new piece in @theatlantic.com: “White House Architecture Was an Honor System. Trump Noticed.” (1/3)

One of the first things people see after walking through the front doors of the Heurich house is a grand built-in fireplace. The hallway was designed to make a powerful impression. Its height, the detailed woodwork, large mirror, and intricate tiling adds to the sense of wealth and grandeur. 1/4

Every hot dog stand will in fact be replaced by the deconstructivist falafel stand from the 1995 Parker Posey vehicle Party Girl.

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“[Grandmother] heard knocking in the bronze figure…in the corner of the reception room.” - Jan Evans, a Heurich grandchild, recalled in a 1985 oral history interview. After the knocks, Amelia heard Jan’s father say, “things are so different from what I thought” – even though he died during WWII.

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“Grandmother believed in spirits” - Jan Evans, Heurich granddaughter. Amelia Heurich often asked for good spirits to be with her family in her diaries. She would also attribute sounds like knocks or rustling in the house to Anna Marguerite, her daughter who died at 9 months old.

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Käthe Kruse (born in 1883 in Germany) founded her dollmaking practice on the idea that dolls should be soft, durable, and more natural for children to use. This meant departing from the cold, hard (likely inaccessible to many) porcelain dolls of the era. 👶 (1/6) 🗃️

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The skylight was designed with ventilation in mind. 🌬️ When walking up the main staircase, your eyes may be drawn to faint light shining from a skylight above. The skylight room is between the main stairs and the roof - only accessible through a 4th floor closet. ✨

How do relationships affect the way people are remembered? After doing research, we’ve learned that the Heurich and Gichner families were actually close friends. The Gichner family business installed the new turret roof in the 1930s.

Just TWO WEEKS Left to get Early Bird Tickets! 🎟️🎄 Don’t miss your chance for reduced priced tickets for the 14th annual Heurich Christmas Markt — DC’s only multi-day holiday market spotlighting all local makers!

How do people make connections and support one another? There are many parallels between the Heurich and Gichner families’ stories. (In the 1930s Lawrence Gichner, son to Ernest, replaced the turret’s roof with copper plates.)

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Lawrence Gichner (who replaced the turret roof) was born in DC in 1907 to Ernest and Helen Gichner. His father apprenticed in metalwork in Vienna, Austria starting at 14 years old. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1888 and opened a DC shop DC with the slogan: “everything in sheet metal.” (1/5) 🗃️

The former Armstrong Rubber Company building in New Haven, Connecticut, was designed by architect Marcel Breuer. Completed in 1970. r/brutalism

Right Proper brewery co-founder Thor Cheston knows that advocating against D.C.'s proposed bottle bill might put him on the wrong side of environmentally conscious customers: "We have to take that risk to be judged in the court of public opinion because if we do not fight this, we do not exist.”