Hours, admission, and how to get in.
Open today until 5 pm
Last admission 4:15 pm. The garden keeps the house's hours.
Free for everyone on Sunday 4 October, the first Sunday of the month.
| Adults | $14 |
|---|---|
| Seniors 65 and over | $10 |
| Students with ID | $8 |
| Children under 12 with an adult | Free |
| Members at every tier | Free |
Tickets at the gate. Card or cash; no booking except for groups. Admission includes the garden, and a ticket is good all day, so you can leave for lunch on Water Street and come back.
Hours by season
| Season | Days | Opens | Closes | Last admission |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| April to December 20261 April to 31 December 2026 | Wednesday to Sunday | 10 am | 5 pm | 4:15 pm |
| Winter 20271 January to 31 March 2027 | Saturday and Sunday | 11 am | 4 pm | 3:15 pm |
| April to December 20271 April to 31 December 2027 | Wednesday to Sunday | 10 am | 5 pm | 4:15 pm |
| Thanksgiving | 26 November 2026 |
|---|---|
| Christmas | 24 to 25 December 2026 |
| New Year's Day | 1 January 2027 |
| Collections cleaning week | 11 to 17 January 2027 |
The house is closed on the days above whatever the season says; the plan-your-visit line at the top of this page and the home page already knows them. Weather rarely closes the house, but ice on the garden paths closes the garden: the desk decides at 10 and it is posted on the gate and here.
Last admission is forty-five minutes before closing so that a visit to the upper floor is not rushed. The garden keeps the house’s hours.
Water Street, by the river.
- Where
- 7 Water Street, Tarrow Landing, New York — the iron gate on Water Street, two minutes from the station on foot.
- Parking
- The town lot on Ferry Street, free after 10; two accessible spaces inside the gate, by arrangement at the desk.
- Step-free
- The ground floor, the garden and the garden room, by the ramp at the side door. The upper floor is reached only by the original stair; a photograph book of the rooms upstairs is at the desk.
- Admission
- Covers the house and the garden. Free for everyone on the first Sunday of the month.
What is step-free, and what is not.
The house is a historic building, and this page says exactly what that means rather than promising more than it can. The ground floor — the hall, the parlour, the study, the kitchen and the garden room — is reached without steps by the ramp at the side door, which the desk opens on request or by the bell beside it. Doorways on the ground floor are 34 inches or wider. The garden is gravel, raked firm, with a paved route from the gate to the garden room and the bench at the end of the main path. One accessible restroom is off the garden room.
The upper floor is reached only by the original stair, sixteen steps with a handrail on one side. There is no lift. For anyone who does not take the stair, a photograph book of the upstairs rooms is at the desk, and the upstairs exhibition has a ground-floor set of its labels in the study. Seats are in every room; a folding stool can be borrowed. Large-print labels for every room are at the desk. Assistance dogs are welcome everywhere.
The museum reports what it does and does not offer; it does not claim compliance. For a qualified historic building, where full compliance would threaten or destroy its historic significance, the 2010 ADA Standards allow alternatives decided with the State Historic Preservation Officer, with at minimum one accessible route to an entrance, one accessible entrance and one accessible restroom; vertical access to other storeys is not required (28 CFR 36.405(b) and 2010 Standards § 202.5, U.S. Access Board). The museum states the rule; it does not advise on it.
Tell us what would help before you come, by email or on the group form below, and the desk will have it ready. If something on this page turns out to be wrong on the day, say so; it is corrected the same week.
Ask for a group visit
Groups of ten to forty come by arrangement, on any open day, with a docent. The form checks the date against the seasons and the closures, and asks for access needs so the desk can plan the route. Demonstration: it sends nothing and stores nothing.
What is not allowed, and why
- Photographs without flash are welcome in every room and the garden; flash fades the textiles, so it is the one thing the docents will stop.
- Bags larger than a handbag stay in the lockers at the desk: the rooms are small and the furniture is original.
- Food and drink in the garden, not the house; there is a bench at the end of every path.
- Dogs in the garden on a lead; assistance dogs everywhere.
- Sitting on the furniture — the chairs you may sit on have no rope; the others have.
- Commercial photography and filming by arrangement, in writing, with a fee that goes to the collections-care fund.
Group visits are $10 a person, whatever the day, and include the docent; schools are $4 a student with adults free, from the education manager’s bookings. Both figures are for 2026.