Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion, Philadelphia

About Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion

Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion in Philadelphia is a museum of nineteenth-century everyday life where visitors tour a restored Victorian mansion and lavish gardens. The mansion reveals how Philadelphia's rising middle class lived from the 1860s to the 1910s, showing the lives of people both upstairs and downstairs during a period of industrialization and social change. Regular tours run Thursday through Sunday, with group tours available on any day. Throughout the year, the mansion hosts Victorian music concerts featuring pianists and chamber ensembles, theatrical productions including "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," special events like Raptor Jawn with visiting birds of prey, and holiday activities such as trick-or-treating and Victorian Christmas tours. Educational programming explores nineteenth-century history and domestic life. The fully air-conditioned mansion in Philadelphia's Germantown neighborhood welcomes visitors to experience the spaces where servants worked and families lived during this transformative era.