Carlyle House

The Congress of Alexandria- General Braddock & Five Colonial Governors

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congress_of_Alexandria

Quite Educational but also Entertaining - firing squad

Quite honestly the most boring tour of my life. Tour guide was monotone and kept correcting himself as he misspoke and very little interesting information or things to see. Save yourself some money and skip this tour...

What a fun stop! Personal tour of the house, including entry to all but one bedroom. Wonderful, detailed tour of this historic home.
Museum is decorated in 1700's items, some original and some replicas. There's also a stop that shows the architecture/layers of materials from the home. Tour includes the history of the original owner and his family, the changes of ownership and disarray the house fell into, restoration and current state.

$3 for children 6+ and $7 for adults. Tour begins with a short video and then a 45-50 minute walk through of the home.
Must be able to walk stairs. There are specific chairs throughout the home to sit during the tour if needed.

*based on the advertised trick-or-treat*
We arrived right at 4pm and were guided up to a table to get a treat bag. That was it. There were some costumed T-rex walking around so my son had some fun with that for a few minutes. We walked back to the garden, which was very well maintained, and then left. We were there a total of 15 minutes. We went down to the waterfront and returned to our car parked next to Carlyle House around 5:15 and all of the candy must have been handed out as there was no one in the yard. I'm glad there is other stuff to do in Old Town, because this was a bust.

Pretty house, gated. Nice gardens. What we were able to see in the garden. There's an old cannon in the front yard. The gardens are closed today for a private event.

It's a simple but nice looking house even still today.
It has a large property, considering the area.

There is an omission to go inside of the house.

Woohoooo a veritable oasis!!!

Sadly, the Carlyle 'gardens' are being used as a storage for CAT bulldozers, metal drums, coils and cranes. All the surrounding houses, are gutted: they store metal posts, cones, dust, waist-high lumps of debris, garbage and tools as if it was a shed!

Unsightly.

The saving Grace, are the gardens - but you can't access them, due to the bulldozers, machinery.. it is a real let-down that a construction zone has now developed, right during a post-shut summer!

Rebel review: 4 gardens

Nice tour of the house by guide Jeff.
Been working in Old Town for years, but never went in. Went by all the time.
nice to hear the early history of Alexandria. The house history is neat. As is Mr. Carlyle and his path in life.
I would like to have heard more about the "save" but only so much to fit into 60 minutes.
time well spent.

3.5. The house is located in a busy area and we were fortunate to come on a day when there was a farmers market across the street. Then you can walk the area, there are some restaurants etc all around there. The house itself is a lot lesser land obviously than when it was built. Carlyle owned two massive plots but now it's less than one. He was a merchant in town. The house itself typical for the time, but was once the most elegant house in the area as he was a very wealthy merchant. Most fascinating part of the story was what happened to the property after the family was out of the picture. it went through a lot, including housing poorer people. A bank built in front of it, hiding it's view from everyone from all angles. It was basically lost to history... things like that fascinate me. Tiny gift shop, small garden in the back. The staircase and windows are grand but they'd been rebuilt to what they think it looked like. Some things original there. Like most places, some is and some is not original. Worth a look if in the area. The Gadsby Tavern is across the street as well. You can do both in well under 2 hours.

I love history. I love stories. This place has it all.
My tour guide was Steve K. He had so much to say I may have actually reached my information peak. I had questions he had all the answers. I did get a one on one tour. I went on a very slow day.
I would recommend this tour while you are in town.
When you go tell Penny I said, Hi. I'm absolutely sure she still lives there.

My fiancé and I took the "Death Comes to Carlyle House" your tonight and it was fantastic! For anyone looking for something different and a bit eerie, I highly recommend it. It's like stepping back in time and visiting the home of a recently deceased person and witnessing what the family did during mourning. The home has a fascinating history- a haunted one! The staff is super friendly and very knowledgeable. They've also taken all Covid precautions. I believe they're only doing these tours for the month of October, but I'll definitely go back for other events and yours!