Wine and Mansions

Explore three centuries of Wilkes-Barre architecture in one square with Wilkes-Barre City Councilman and Wilkes-Barre Preservation Society director Tony Brooks.  From simple colonial Yankee houses to the magnificent mansions of the Gilded Age, from Gothic-revival churches to streamline modernism Wilkes-Barre has it all.  Learn how you can become an urban anthropologist through architecture.  Hear the stories of French royalty and a world-famous artist, and marvel how a little girl spread the gospel of good manners and social graces around the world.  Wilkes-Barre is not only home to coal that fueled the Industrial Revolution but is also the birthplace of Planters Peanuts and Home Box Office.  This architectural walking tour will have you wanting more.

Up to 20 people. Wine and hors d'oeuvres are served mid-point of the tour in an 1873 carriage house.