Tour stunning Ridgefield homes in their holiday finest while supporting Tiger Hollow Inc. and Ridgefield Historical Society.
Back once again for the 2023 Holidays for a 10th season, you are invited to tour beautiful Ridgefield homes on December 2nd.
Choose from three available times: 9 am, 11 am, or 1 pm.
Registration takes place at the historic Lounsbury House where you will receive your house tour tickets. Learn more about registration here.
A "Preview Party" is planned for December 1st 2023 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Tuttle Smith House on Main Street.
Volunteers welcome!
If you are interested in being part of this exciting event & helping as an Event Day House Volunteer or as a Safety and Parking Volunteer on Saturday, December 2, 2023, please click
The Beautiful Historic Houses on the Holiday Tour:
Joshua King Mansion
The original mansion on this site was built by Revolutionary War veteran Joshua King in 1801. The house was destroyed by fire in 1889 and was rebuilt in a similar style and enlarged by 1894. The house remained in the King family until 1920.
Helen Minturn Post House
Helen Minturn Post acquired the property in 1884 from Henry King McHarg and his wife Frederika. The Summer 1904 New York Social Register showed Miss Post's Ridgefield summer home known as "Faircourt." Later owners were Gerardus and Lois Hall Herrick, who called it "Grey Shingles."
David Hoyt House
The Fountain Inn is named for Ridgefield’s Cass Gilbert Fountain which sits directly in front of the inn on a dividing island at the intersection of Main Street and West Lane. Officially, the building is known as the David Hoyt house. In 1740, Hoyt built his “city home in the country” on Proprietors’ Lot #1 of the original 1708 layout for the village.
1756 Benjamin Keeler House
Believed to have been built in 1756 on Lot #25 of the original proprietors’ lots, the Benjamin Keeler house was a farmstead, with a large barn built at about the same time. Benjamin Keeler was the brother of innkeeper Timothy Keeler. The house passed into the Benedict family in the early 19th Century; one of its later owners was the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Kruger.
A Century-Old Colonial
This handsome home was built on land purchased in 1923 by Frances M. Olmsted, reportedly a distant relative of Frederick Law Olmsted, from Julia Finch Gilbert, wife of the famed architect, Cass Gilbert. The Gilberts owned large areas of land surrounding their country home, which they called the Cannonball House and is now the Keeler Tavern Museum and History Center.
Learn more about this special holiday event and view the homes => https://ridgefieldholidayhousetour.com/