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Tours
Events
Saturday March 28th
An Evening With Daniel Maltz - Fortepianist
Doors Open at 6:30PM
Show Starts at 7:00PM
Tickets are $50 each and includes wine and hors d'oeuvres
Enjoy Haydn and Mozart’s piano works performed as they intended them to be heard — in a private home on a period instrument.
During the Classical era in Vienna, composers expected their keyboard music to entertain relatively small audiences in more intimate settings than today’s large concert halls. And, the era’s pianos (known as “fortepianos”) are very different from modern Steinways.
The Hower House Museum in Akron, Ohio is offering you this unique chance to experience the Classical era, so get your
tickets now!
Fortepianist Daniel Adam Maltz is based in Vienna and studied Historical Performance at the Royal Academy of Music in London and at Vienna’s University for Music and Performing Arts. He performs on historic Viennese fortepianos, utilizing the vast range of tones, colors, and techniques familiar to Classical-era composers.
This event has limited seating.
Tickets are $50 each and includes wine and hors d'oeuvres.
Payment by cash, check, or credit card is required at time of reservation. Please call 330.972.6909 or email howerhouse@uakron.edu to make your reservation.
This concert is benefiting the restoration of the Hower Family's 1905 Chickering Piano located in the Music Room.
RSVP's due by Wednesday, March 25th.
Monday April 6th @ 6:30PM
Museum Musings Book Club Presents Ken Weiss
Free for Current HHM Members / $8 for Non-Members/
$2 for Students
Weiss' book uncovers the forgotten stories of a city through the lens of early 20th-century postcards, capturing people, places, and lost landmarks.
In the early 1900s, nearly a million postcards were sent from Akron and the surrounding areas to recipients across the world. Hidden in these postcards are the stories of people and places that have been lost to time. Buildings have been abandoned. Families have faded away. Even the landmarks, amusement parks, hotels, bridges, and stadiums that were expected to last forever have disappeared.
The stories of these places and people go beyond the expected. Akron always amazes with the odd, imaginative, and engaging. The stories here are about unique personalities, diverse backgrounds, businesses founded, and loves lost.
The names are legendary: Benjamin Goodrich, Harvey Firestone, John Brown, Judith Resnik and more. This is, after all, the city that gave birth to Lebron James, The Black Keys, and Devo. The unknown names, however, are equally intriguing.
This is Akron.
This inspiring book uses the art and perspective of postcards, the senders, and the recipients. Just a few words say so much about their circumstances, accomplishments, families, and obstacles. In every case, you’ll get a glimpse of both then and now. - Amazon
RSVP's are encouraged but not required.
Call the Hower House Museum to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 Please feel free to leave a message and we will return your call. You may also email your RSVP to Dawn Wiltheiss at dmm47@uakron.edu. (Reservations are encouraged but not required.) Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM guests! $2 for Students with proper ID (If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge.)
Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.
Monday May 4th @ 6:30PM
Museum Musings Book Club Presents Carolyn Behrman &
Tim Matney
Free for Current HHM Members / $8 for Non-Members/
$2 for Students
What Remains presents a grassy field with a complicated and fraught history. What is now a suburban park where people play soccer and flag football in the City of Akron, Ohio, was once a Progressive-era county infirmary’s burial ground for people who were poor, infirm, troubled, immigrant, injured, alcoholic, elderly, or otherwise deemed “unemployable” during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Through community-engaged scholarship, this book uses legal, historical, archaeological, and anthropological lenses to consider what is above and below the grass. What Remains is about memories and stories; how at times we collectively remember, forget, or even invent new pasts through the process of tracing and uncovering our own histories. It is about what is worth remembering, what is better left forgotten, and who gets to decide. - UA Press
RSVP's are encouraged but not required.
Call the Hower House Museum to make your reservations: 330.972.6909 Please feel free to leave a message and we will return your call. You may also email your RSVP to Dawn Wiltheiss at dmm47@uakron.edu. (Reservations are encouraged but not required.) Free for HHM Guild members with current membership; $8 special price for our HHM guests! $2 for Students with proper ID (If you decide to join the HHM Guild this evening, you will not have to pay the door charge.)
Limited seating, light refreshments served; free onsite parking for guests.
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Hower House Museum Member Meet-ups
(Formerly Gadabouts)
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The Gadabout Program was founded by our beloved member, Richard Hudkins, to create opportunities that allow for the members of the Hower House Museum Guild to socialize while learning something new, eating, and having fun!
(Each event will offer education, food, and fun!)
***Unless otherwise noted, these events are open to all current members and invited guests of the Hower House Museum Guild.
Preregistration is encouraged, but not required.
(330) 972.6909 or email dmm47@uakron.edu
***The prices listed here are subject to change and based on the maximum amount estimated for the cost of participating. No other charged or fees should apply. Participants are expected to pay these charges as they arise.
In other words, there is no cost to join us, but you will need to pay your own admission and buy your own food, when applicable.
Spring Exhibit
2026
Architecturally Speaking: Lasting influence of Jacob Snyder
Reintroduced and Refreshed
with additional research!
The development of new materials, technologies, and social needs during the rapid industrialization of the nineteenth century significantly impacted architectural design. Where American industry favored standardized, functional architecture to promote efficient work, wealthy industrial profiteers wanted homes and public spaces that secured and reflected their social status.
Jacob Snyder was one of many influential architects and builders to navigate this period of unprecedented expansion and leave a lasting impact, though his name is less known. He co-created the “Akron Plan” for Sunday Schools and applied it to many of his commissions. Snyder’s design work reached prominence in the late nineteenth century and was developed through a lifetime of passion, education, and collaboration with local partners.
Explore the lasting impacts of Jacob Snyder’s life and works as we discuss the architect responsible for the Hower House Museum’s innovative and deliberate design.
A special thank you to the researchers who helped make this exhibit possible: The Hower House Museum Staff, John Miller, Richard Haldi, Mina Philpott, Jon Schmitz, Ashley Ritcher, Jason Rodkey, and the residents of Shady Bend and the District 8 Schoolhouse.
Holiday 2026
Opens to the Public on Thursday November 5th!
Tour days/times:
Thursdays - Saturdays - 12 noon until 3 p.m. (last tour at 2 p.m.)
Holiday Sundays - 1 p.m. Until 4 p.m. (last tour at 3 p.m.)
Admission charged
Now Scheduling Group Tours for the 2026 Season!
*Discounted Rates may be available for scheduled group tours.
Please contact Dawn for more information at 330.972.6909 or dmm47@uakron.edu
Cellar Door Boutique - unique gift shop open during tour times
Free onsite parking for tours/events
Location: 60 Fir Hill, Akron Ohio 44304
On the campus of The University of Akron
330.972.6909