Museum Description :The Kirkman House was built between 1879-1880 of brick from the Weston, Oregon Foundry. When the house was completed, William and Isabelle Kirkman moved in with their four surviving children, William Henry, Fanny Ann, Myrtle Belle, and Leslie Gilmore. The family built an addition comprising of a larger dinning room and kitchen in 1890. Fanny and Allen Reynolds were married in the front parlor on November 7, 1894. William Henry, upon becoming a widower in 1905, moved back into the house with his son William Leslie. The Kirkman House is an authentic example .. View More >>
Museum Description :The Kirkman House was built between 1879-1880 of brick from the Weston, Oregon Foundry. When the house was completed, William and Isabelle Kirkman moved in with their four surviving children, William Henry, Fanny Ann, Myrtle Belle, and Leslie Gilmore. The family built an addition comprising of a larger dinning room and kitchen in 1890. Fanny and Allen Reynolds were married in the front parlor on November 7, 1894. William Henry, upon becoming a widower in 1905, moved back into the house with his son William Leslie. The Kirkman House is an authentic example of the luxurious 1880’s, a period of extensive growth for Walla Walla in downtown business buildings and in fine homes. In Walla Walla, it is the second oldest brick building still in existence, and certainly one of the grandest. The house has a rich history of its own, having undergone several phases throughout its 130 plus year history. In its heyday, the house was the setting for lavish entertaining, as well as for routine activities of daily American Victorian life. In addition to being home for the Kirkman’s, it also served as a boys’ dormitory for Whitman College from 1920-1924. During this time Walter Brattain, 1956 Nobel Prize winner for the co-invention of the transistor, studied in the home. Later, the house was converted into an apartment home for more than 50 years. The museum came into being as a rescue operation to save this home on the edge of the local Northern Pacific railroad. The house was elected to the National Historic Register in December of 1974 and has been run as a non-profit organization since 1981.
Museum Admission :$7 : Per Person
$25 : Household
Free : All NARM and ROAM members
Museum Program :Holiday Bazaar and Victorian Christmas
Date & Time : December 3rd - 5th 2016,11:00 a.m. - 05:30 p.m.
Contact : (509) 529-4373
e-mail : khm@kirkmanhousemuseum.org
Details : The beauty of Christmas comes to Kirkman House with a bazaar of gift items and crafts, available to the public on Thursday and Friday, December 3rd and 4th, noon to 8:00 pm. Over a dozen vendors will be on hand at the Holiday Bazaar offering their hand-crafted jewelry, knitted and crocheted items, homemade holiday ornaments, candies, note cards, gourmet foods, photo albums, apparel for children and adults, glass works and many other beautiful gift items. << View Less