May 1- Labor Day: T W TH & Sat 10 - 2 Labor Day- Nov 30: Thursday & Saturday 10 - 1 CLOSED: Thanksgiving to January 31 & Federal Holidays Thursday & Saturday 10 - 1
Group Visits by Appointment: 513-751-0651 800-847-6507
Located at: 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati OH 45205 at the corner of Martin Luther King Drive and Gilbert Avenue (ST RT3 and US RT 22). It is in the historic Walnut Hills Neighborhood of Cincinnati, In Hamilton County. It is accessible from I-71. There is additional off-street parking across the street at Gilbert & Beecher, at the African-American Chamber of Commerce. Cincinnati Metro Bus Route 1 stops in front of the House and also stops at the Cincinnati Art Museum, Zoo, and downtown attractions (Fare is $1 for adults).
The House
_The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is operated as an historical and
cultural site, focusing on Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's
Cabin. The site also includes a look into the family, friends, and
colleagues of the Beecher-Stowe family, Lane Seminary, and the
abolitionist, rights and Underground Railroad movements in which these
historical figures participated in the 1830's to 1860's, as well as
African-American history related to these movements.
The Stowe
House offers cultural events and programming and the House and grounds
are available to groups for rental for meetings and special events.
The adjoining grounds are maintained by the Cincinnati Park Board.
The
site is operated by experienced volunteers. We are also seeking new
volunteers to assist in a wide variety of activities at the Stowe House.
Training is available. Please contact the volunteer coordinator if you
are interested in helping to preserve the Stowe House and its heritage
for future generations.
Contact: B. Furr, Volunteer Coordinator, Friends of Harriet Beecher Stowe House, Inc.
_"The object of these sketches is to awaken sympathy and feeling
for the African race, as they exist among us; to show their wrongs and
sorrows, under a system so necessarily cruel and unjust as to defeat and
do away the good effects of all that can be attempted for them, by
their best friends, under it.
--Harriet Beecher Stowe
Author's preface from Uncle Tom's Cabin