The Wonderful World
of Dollhouses

Dollhouses on display include the McComb Dollhouse which was raffled at the great Centennial Fair in Philadelphia in 1864 and won by a Delaware family.  The six-foot dollhouse is elaborately decorated with miniature Victorian furniture.  The  Buffington House is a 1930s Spanish Revival House full of furniture in the Arts & Crafts Style.  The large-scale Patterson Dollhouse is a model of a real 18th Century house in historic New Castle that is furnished with Colonial furniture and even has a miniature skeleton in the closet.  The Edgemoor Dollhouse is a small-scale Victorian home, and the colorful Albert Dollhouse from the 1960s is made of the most modern materials of the day-tin and plastic.

Kids and adults will get a special look at five different dollhouses from the 1860s to the 1960s during the Dollhouse & Paper Doll  Family Saturday.  After the special tour, kids can make their own paper doll and tissue paper dress to take home as a souvenir.