Celebrate Fall at the Houston Museum of Decorative Arts!

201 High Street,Chattanooga TN 37403

30 October, 2021

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Come join us at the Houston for a fun, old-timey Halloween event to celebrate the fall season. Fun activates, games, snacks and more! Help you and your family become official History Hunters! Join us at the Houston Museum of Decorative Arts for an old-timey Halloween event to celebrate the Fall season! This festive family occasion will include a costume contest for children, the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners take home a ribbon and a prize. There will be music by local fiddler player Paul Porceddu. There will also be games such as ring toss, tin can alley, bobbing for apples (separately, due to covid). There will also be snacks and apple cider. The event will be held outside at the Houston Museum on Saturday, October 30, from 2-4 p.m. The coast is $12 per ticket. Ages 5 and up. To register please contact Lilly Waters at [email protected] or call 423-267-7176. We hope you can join us! Visitors to the Houston Museum are consistently struck by the quality of Anna Houston’s glass objects, from water pitchers (trustees counted 15,000 in her barn after her death) to a group of miniature oil “courting” lamps.  She collected very rare examples of cut glass, satin glass, Peach Blow pitchers and cruets, Burmese glass objects, cameo glass, and cranberry glass. Manufacturers represented in the collection include Steuben, Tiffany, Durand, Loetz, and Fenton. Though art glass was her specialty, Anna purchased American antique furniture too. Art glass is displayed atop sugar chests, corner cupboards, tables, and dressers. The museum displays Anna’s chairs and rockers, including a hickory “nanny cradle” dating to 1810. Music boxes, scrimshaw, coverlets and quilts, and antique German steins help round out a collection that represents many facets of Victorian life.