Hampton National Historic Site Hosts Its Holiday Open House on December 5, Tracing Christmas From the Revolution to Reconstruction
The National Park Service will host the annual Holidays at Hampton open house on Saturday, December 5, 2026, at Hampton National Historic Site in Towson, Maryland, the agency announced on November 4. Visitors can discover how people celebrated the holiday season during the American Revolution and follow how the fight for freedom continued from Hampton's Revolutionary origins through the Reconstruction era.
The mansion will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., with park rangers and volunteers sharing stories while the ConneXions Academy choir and Fort McHenry Guard musicians perform festive songs through the day. Two floors of the mansion will be decorated for Christmases from the Early Republic to the twentieth century, with decorations on display from December 3, 2026 through January 10, 2027, and guided mansion tours available by reservation through the season. In the orangery, visitors can make a Hampton-inspired ornament with a park volunteer, with cider and cookies provided by park partner Historic Hampton, Inc.
Admission and parking are free. A free shuttle will run from 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. from the Towson United Methodist Church parking lot at 501 Hampton Lane, stopping at the mansion and orangery upper lot and the visitor contact station, where the gift shop will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Hampton preserves what remains of a once 25,000-acre plantation on 63 acres. Established in 1948, it was the first unit in the National Park Service preserved for its architectural merit, and it prompted the creation of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Alongside the Georgian mansion stand quarters once home to enslaved families and farm outbuildings, set in formal gardens, meadows and specimen trees. (Source: National Park Service)
Source: National Park Service
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Photo: 图：Hampton 国家历史遗址乔治风格大宅的西南立面。Wikimedia Commons 图片（CC BY-SA 3.0）。 / Photo: The southwest elevation of the Georgian mansion at Hampton National Historic Site. Image via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0).
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