Video: Tanner House Holidays

by Aurora Historical Society | Dec 7, 2020 | AHS Video, Featured, Video

Ten years of Tanner House Holidays. This year, we can’t open the doors for you, so we made you a video. Happy...

Death Comes to the Tanner House: A video compilation of the last decade of our dramatized tours

by Aurora Historical Society | Oct 24, 2020 | AHS Video, Featured, Video

Tanner House Video Tour

by Aurora Historical Society | Aug 24, 2020 | AHS Video, Featured, Project, Video

The beautiful 1857 Tanner House Museum in Aurora once required a bit of planning to visit, but today all it takes get inside is the click of a mouse. Thanks to a video made during the summer of 2020, a 17-minute tour of the house is available on the Society’s...

Sneak Peek: Tanner House Tour

by Aurora Historical Society | Jul 24, 2020 | Featured, Video

A virtual tour of the Tanner House takes a lot of organizing but we’re up to the challenge. Finished product to debut in a few weeks so stay...

June 14, Flag Day and the Local Connection: Dr. Bernard J. Cigrand

by Aurora Historical Society | Jun 14, 2020 | Articles & Exhibits, Featured, Photo, Video

Bernhard J. Cigrand (AHS Collections) June 14 is Flag Day.  The founder of Flag Day was Dr. Bernard J. Cigrand, who first observed the day as a young teacher in a one-room schoolhouse in Wisconsin in 1885.  All of his life, he rallied for the official recognition of...

Museum Week 2020: Part Three — Ceilings in the Victorian style – Tanner House

by Aurora Historical Society | Jun 12, 2020 | AHS Video, Featured, Video

It’s Museum Week in Aurora and EarthFoot Entertainment made us three videos of our favorite house. Here is “Ceilings in the Victorian style” featuring the Tanner House...