Deaf Day
Oct. 25
Harriet Beecher Stowe House 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati, OH, USA Open in Google Map
10:30 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Adult - $8 Senior - $7 Child - $5 Harriet Beecher Stowe House member - Free Ohio History Connection member - Free

Tours will be professionally interpreted in American Sign Language starting at 10:30 a.m., 12:30 p.m., and 2:30 p.m.

Visitors will encounter the history this house witnessed in two different time periods 100 years apart:

  • 1840 when abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe lived in Cincinnati as a young teacher and mother preparing to write the blockbuster antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
  • 1940 when African American proprietor Irene Bacon managed the house as the Edgemont Inn--a boarding house and tavern listed in the Green Book.

Ticket includes admission to outdoor exhibit and rotating exhibit display.

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