Merchant’s House Museum Announces Upcoming Events

Merchant's House Museum has announced the following upcoming events:

Love in the Parlors: A Valentine in Concert

Date:                     Tuesday, February 14

Time:                     7 p.m.

Location:             Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)

Description:       A program of lush, romantic vocal music of the world’s great 19th-century composers performed in the Museum’s Greek Revival double parlors. Bond Street Euterpean Singing Society singers Anthony Bellov, Rosalind Gnatt, Jane Rady, Dayle Vander Sande perform music by Rossini, Schubert, Liszt, Gounod, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Amy Beach and more. 75 minutes. $30, $20 Students & Seniors, $15 MHM Members. Reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visit merchantshouse.org/events.

Lecture: Investigating “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House”

Dates:                   Saturday, February 18

Time:                     7 p.m.

Location:             Merchant’s House Museum, 29 East Fourth Street (btwn Lafayette & Bowery)

Description:       Join Dan Sturges, paranormal researcher extraordinaire, as he explains the methodology and best practices of “ghost hunting” – and shares some of the remarkable, but inexplicable, occurrences during five years of investigations at the Merchant’s House Museum, “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House,” according toThe New York Times. $20, $10 MHM Members. Reservations required; call 212-777-1089 or visitmerchantshouse.org/events.

The Merchant's House Museum is New York City's only family home preserved intact — inside and out — from the mid-19th century.  Home to a prosperous merchant-class family for almost 100 years, it is complete with the family's original furnishings and personal possessions, offering a rare and intimate glimpse of domestic life from 1835-1865.

On the web: www.merchantshouse.org.