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THE PACKWOOD HOUSE MUSEUM |
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Packwood House Museum is among the oldest log-built structures of its kind in Pennsylvania, originally constructed as a two-story log cabin between 1796 and 1799. As a tavern and hotel throughout much of the 19th century, the building served travelers in the Susquehanna Valley until 1886. In 1936 Edith Fetherston, a Lewisburg native and one of the first woman graduates of nearby Bucknell University, and her husband, John, purchased the 27-room building as a retirement home, and began to fill it with art and antiques from Pennsylvania and across the world. They named their home "Packwood" after a Fetherston family ancestral home in England. |
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The Fetherstons had no children, and left their home and collections in a trust to create "a Public Museum for the educational benefits of all persons." John died in 1962, Edith died in 1972, and in accordance with their wills, Packwood House Museum opened to the public in 1976. Today, visitors see not only the historic building, but the Fetherstons' treasures of glass, ceramics, textiles, furniture, paintings, Pennsylvania German decorative arts, and Oriental art. It truly is a world-class museum in a small town. |
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15 N. Water St.
Lewisburg, PA 17837
570-524-0323