Fantastic restored home. Volunteers are extremely helpful and knowledgeable.There are so many things to see in the house. Love the details in the chandeliers. Some are gas and some are electric. A few are both! Plan on about 90 minutes if you go. That would be plenty of time to see it.Well worth the visit. Close to downtown Akron.

Ive been to dozens of historic homes and Hower House is one of my favorites. The home is unique and beautifully furnished. The volunteers that conduct the tours and run the gift shop are friendly and knowledgeable. The most outstanding feature for me though was that they offered chairs to sit on in almost every room, which was essential for my elderly mother to enjoy our visit.

Its a Hidden Gem in Akron Ohio I wish more people could come and visit it its beautiful we will be closed until the second week of February got to clean up them cobwebs

Wish I could give zero stars. Self-guided is not truly that; the monitors literally follow right behind you, because according to one of them, they have to keep an eye on people. Almost thirty dollars to be treated poorly, followed around like thieves and to be yelled at by a monitor when we refused to listen to their guided tour even though we paid for a self guided one. Rich was apologetic and the only reason we stayed; he should interact with the public and not these monitors. We have taken self guided tours at much more ornate homes and have never been followed from room to room. The director excused the monitors behavior by saying some have more experience than others. Kindness and respect for paying customers doesnt require any experience! Wish I could get my time and money back which could help erase the memory of a particularly horrible visit. After many years of visits, we will never come back.

Beautiful historic home that offers a variety of events throughout the year. Breakfast with Santa is a great tradition to start with your family.

Excellent and knowledgable staff! History of the house is very well kept.

Lovely Victorian mansion worthy of a visit.

The person giving us a tour was very knowledgeable. Awesome that the furniture was actually left by the family.

You must make this a stop on your site seeing trip in Akron.This is a beautiful home that has been restored to its glory, now under the guidance of the university.The volunteers who work here are the reason this is a must see. You wont be disappointed.

Expensive. Although advertised as self guided tour, we were followed and told that docent was there in case of questions. VERY awkward, particularly when docent follows your every move and stands in an adjacent room and peeks around the corner at you. After 10 yearly visits, we wont be returning.

It was gorgeous and amazing. Everyone should visit especially Akronites.

Great house museum, great history and interesting collections

Now Beautifully decorated for Christmas Winter Wonderland

Kool little place full of history we enjoyed our tour. Nicely decorated...Recommended

Beautiful Victorian home with elegant furnishings. The guides were very knowledgeable and interesting. Fantastic gift shop!

Great house to visit.

If youre an Akronite and never been you need to come! If youre not from around Akron put this on your itinerary.

If you like history tours this place is great!

Beautiful outside just sold to somebody

A truly beautiful home. It has holiday decorations and events and is a great way to learn some Akron history.

Beautiful Victorian mansion, well maintained by The University of Akron. A must see at Christmas.

.nice well preserved .museum house Victorian style authentic

I love all old houses. Some furnishings original but best part is the house

Great historical program on Saturday. Beautiful decorations for the holidays.

Good historic house

Great house & tour given by Veronica

Take the tour.