Hired Help Tour: Working on a Country Estate

Join an interpretive guide dressed as one of Brucemore's domestic servants to learn what it was like to live and work on one of Iowa's grandest estates in the early twentieth-century. The 90-minute Hired Help Tour, Saturdays, April 7, 14, 21, and 28 at 9:30 a.m., will take visitors through the Servants' Village and into the servants' living quarters, areas only open to the public during this tour. Documents and photographs from Brucemore's archives and etiquette manuals and popular magazines from the turn-of-the-century will provide an understanding of the relationships between the employers and their staff, whose efforts supported the family's lifestyle.

Admission is $10 per person and $7 per Brucemore member. Space is limited. Advance ticket purchase required. Call (319) 362-7375 or visit the Brucemore Store to purchase tickets. Tours will depart from the Brucemore Visitor center.