Keeping the Past Present

Duration

50 Minutes

About

​The quiet grandeur of the Latimer House sets the scene for the Victorian era stories of three generations of the Latimer family, including the successful Zebulon, enterprising William, and fashionable Fanny. The house also tells the stories of the enslaved workers and later servants who lived and worked on the site, such as Eliza, an enslaved woman who fled to Canada. Family friends such as Elizabeth Chant, an eccentric 20th century artist and spiritualist, also make an appearance.

Wander through fourteen rooms with over six hundred antique objects. Experience the beauty of the 19th century from European neoclassical and fine porcelains to stoic portraits by the famed artist William Garl Browne. From ventilator windows to spice boxes to butter churns, witness how daily life was once organized in terms of race and gender.