Absolutely fantastic.. Iit was my first experience in a historic mansion. I was a bit surprised and sad at the slaves house.it was small and house about slaves regular. On some occasion up to 20 or more...It was a experience I will never forget. The staff was very kind and knowledgeable

Toured the house on a Friday morning recently and had a lovely time completing the self-guided tour. The cost was $12 for adults and $10 for seniors (62+) and they give you the password to an audio tour you can do on your phone. We only listened to a couple of the rooms but it was informative with interviews from family who had lived in the house. The salve quarters were open and there was a gift shop in the carriage house. The small garden was pretty and well labeled. We got there right at opening and had the house to ourselves. It took about 45 minutes to see the house and gardens.

Mansion was nice, not too expensive. They had a fire that damaged the house and destroyed some furniture years back. Would have been nice to see all the rooms completely furnished but its not easy to find houses full of antique furniture. What was there was cool. Took about an hour to see the whole place.

We thoroughly enjoyed the self guided tour. An absolutely gorgeous home. The staff is VERY knowledgeable and more than happy to answer any questions.

Beautiful old historical mansion. Love the grounds and house but I was a little disappointed in the interior. I thought the rooms would have more antiques representing the era of the building. The history is fascinating. We did the self guided tour through a cell phone which allows you to go at your own pace.

You will need about two hours to enjoy everything this property has to offer. The visit started with a short 10 minute video about the history of the property. This was a nice primer to provide a good background to truly enjoy the tour and historical information provided by the guide. The guide was very knowledgeable and seemed very passionate about the house. This made the tour even more interesting and he always had very interesting facts about the various periods of the home occupancy. Do not expect to find a lot of period furniture in this house. Most of the original furniture is no longer in the house. What the house lacks in furniture it makes up for with architecture, art, and historical stories. It is well worth 2 hours of your time to see this marvelous house.

Great tour with Audio. History was interesting. Friendly volunteers to help you out.

Beautifully restored antebellum mansion that offers both docent and self-guided tours. The exhibit on Urban Slavery is of particular interest and importance in preserving and telling the story of enslaved artisans who constructed the mansion and served the Bellamy family. Free parking is available in a side lot off Market Street.

This place is very impressive. Its beautiful and very well preserved and redone. The volunteers are knowledgable about the home and the family. The history is amazing and provides insight into our countrys past.

Beth C. did an excellent job providing historical info and details about the Bellamy family. The guided tour was the best way to go, as she was able to share different snippets and also answer questions. This gave a great view of the urban life of the elite class in the Civil.War Era. It also was interesting to learn about how strongly the Old South Ways and ideas flowed even into the middle 1900s! Excellent tour guide and 2 hour activity. Group was children through elderly.

Very helpful staff. They are temporary closed. But gave us some information on the historic view.

Our tour guide Bill was fantastic. So much history in this place, you can almost feel it when you walk around! Awesome tour!

Have never seen a house in this era. Totally impressed.

Wonderful gem with lots of African American history. So glad to find this gem and create the tour.

Great tour. The ac had gone out the day we toured but our tour guide suffered through the heat with us and gave us our tour. There are a lot of step stairs so if you have a hard time with stairs I would stick with the video. The grounds are beautiful as well.

Gorgeous home, fun to see how people lived back then.

Beautiful antebellum mansion in downtown Wilmington. Built in what was country - now it stands proudly on Market Street. Fire destroyed some areas in 1972 but it has been painstakingly restored to its former glory. Watch the introductory video. Take the guided tour. Senior and military discounts.

Super knowledgeable tour guide and beautiful home. Great visit on a rainy day!

Yes, the mansion is air conditioned! Guide Ken was awesome! So knowlegable and thorough! Tour was about 2 hours long, including a 14 minute video. The house is about 10,000 square feet, and about 75 stairs to climb, so wear your comfy shoes. Not wheelchair accessible. Have a cute gift shop of postcards books and knicknacks. Highly recommend!

The Bellamy Mansion is one of Wilmingtons most beautiful locations with informative lectures and festive events year-long. I was there for the Cape Fear Jazz Society concert series in conjunction with the Bellamy. It starts around May and runs monthly through September. Bring your lawn chairs, coolers, even your older children. The staff is most welcoming and the music is accessible to even non-jazz music lovers.

Very nice. Good info and nicely decorated during Christmas time.

What a treasure. Wandered in to enjoy a little southern culture while in town for the day. Staff was pleasant and I decided to take the guided tour. Watched a great video first and then enjoyed John’s (I hope that was his name! My memory is failing me... sorry!) wealth of knowledge and passion for the place and era. The house is beautiful despite apast fire and recent hurricane damage. It’s a wonderful look back at that time in history. They have one of the oldest slave quarters still intact and it was heartbreaking and haunting to see. The gardens boasted one of the largest and most beautiful magnolia trees I’ve seen. Worth the visit.

More like 4.5 stars. Very interesting and a worthwhile tour. The tour guide was very knowledgeable. If you like history, architecture, and have an eye for detail, you will like this.

Loved our tour today! Amazing place. Very well stewarded for preservation with Gracious hosts and very knowledgeable docents. ️

Very graceful view of the past. Lovely gardens and place for public concerts. They kept the slave quarters...so the testimony is there!

The tour was very informative and a learning experience about history. Must visit when you are in Wilmington.

Beautiful place loaded with tons of history.

I could just live here its so beautiful. The docents are knowledgeable and have an introductory video to start your tour.

My husband and I enjoyed being able to walk through the house on our self guided tour. We were able to take as long as we wanted to look and read the pamphlet.

Very fun and interesting! Our tour guide was excellent. We really enjoyed how thorough the tour was around the gardens and in the house and slave quarters. It was great that after the tour, we were free to roam the property as much as we wanted in detail. Learning the history of the family was our favorite part.

I think your experience depends on your tour guide. Ours was great! I highly recommend the guided tour instead of the self guided.

It was awesome. Ann was a wonderful docent and historian and brought the back story to life. I feel like I got to know the time and people so much better.

Great place to gather with family and friends.

Great place good portraits but not good for the family

Amazing antebellum mansion that is in the process of being restored. Highly recommend you visit. Proceeds go towards the rennovation. The guided tour was very entertaining and educational. This is a gem in the middle of Wilmington. It should be on everyones itenerary while visiting this wonderful place.

I especially enjoyed the information on the enslaved population as well as African-Americans that have helped restore the buildings on the site!!! Very impressive!!!!

I love the history of this building! The volunteers are awesome and so is the tour. This is one of my favorite places in Wilmington! The only thing is that this tour is not wheelchair accessible and there are many floors. Just an FYI for individuals who are elderly or use wheelchairs in their daily life.

Very interesting story of this historical property. We did a self guided tour in lieu of waiting for the next available tour. The 13 minute video was an informative overview. House is not fully furnished, but still a nice tour.

Quality restoration of a local historical mansion with guided tours on most days on the week. Also they do seasonal tours, such as a Christmas tree display. The tours are interesting, and the facts about the advanced designs in the house are really cool.

A gorgeous and well-preserved home. Appreciated the texts that provided historical context and facts about slavery. Its billed as a museum of design arts, which felt like one of the weaker points of the exhibits. The kitchen and dining rooms were furnished in a period style, though a majority of the other rooms were bare or decorated seasonally (i.e., Christmas trees -- not much historical context). A worthwhile place to visit with friends and family. It needs about 1 hour to see and read things. Agree with others that there are many flights of stairs to climb in order to see everything -- so be ready for that. Looking forward to how its exhibitions gain more clarity the next time around.

This was a great museum to visit. Everyone wants to be able to see into an amazing plantation house you could only dream to live in! Cheap price--$10 for being a college student and she didnt fret when I said I didnt have my ID on me. We did the audio tour, which kinda sucked. I wished we had done a tour with someone so we could tailor the tour to us and ask questions. Either way, it was a great piece of history to visit.

We had a great time, but maybe middle of August during an all day downpour wasnt the best time to visit. I also have a chronic pain condition & bad knees, so the 3 or 4 flights of stairs were incredibly painful, but I did them.

Considering the price its not really worth it. Most of the rooms are completely bare with not much to see. Just go to the battleship. Same price for so much more.

The Mansion is amazing. The details in the chandeliers are very pretty.The history behind the Mansion is really interesting to learn about.I would recommend going to if you are into history, art and design. It can get rather hot in the Mansion especially on the upper floors. There are multiple flights of steep stairs. If you do not do well with stairs I would not recommend.

Gorgeous, interesting antebellum period. Thoroughly enjoyed!! Worth the $$

Fun way to explore a bit of history. If you dont mind reading, take a self guided tour or call ahead to find out when guided tours are led. Give yourself a few hours to fully enjoy the property.

Nice staff and interesting tour

Awesome place. Extremely unique architecture. Antebellum plantation

Very great tour. The tour guide was very informative. Only regret I have is I wish I would have taken pictures.Word of advice... make sure your 2 year old has had a nap before going on this tour.

Great venue for a Valentines Day party!

Informative tour of this beautiful Southern mansion. Felt like a visit to the 1800’s.

Cool but wouldve been better furnished, although they did explain that. Thats what I always look forward to the most, though. The architecture was stunning and the gardens small but lovely.

So much history and magnificent in person. Its air conditioned so not bad at all in the summer. There are a good amount of stairs. But worth the trip.

Loved this place, great peek into history as well learned a lot and got to tour it alone so we could go at our own pace. Have to check this out if your in Wilmington.

My kids really enjoyed this tour and so did I

Very interesting place. highly suggest doing the guided tour

Great place for traditional bridal portraits! Our classic bride wanted a location that was full of Southern Charm that was located in downtown Wilmington, NC.

This house itself is a wonderful museum. The docent did a great job of explaining how it was an architectural wonder of 1861. I enjoyed the walking tour and learning about 1861 and the years before it and the years after it from the perspective of the Bellamy family, the slaves of the Bellamy family, and the construction crew of the house. This is truly a treasure of Wilmington.

My family recently moved to Wilmington and had not had the chance to do many family outings to explore the richness this city has to offer. So the holiday tour of the Bellamy Mansion was the perfect opportunity. My son absolutely loved and into history. My 14 yr old daughter thought it was going to be boring but she loved it too. The tour volunteers were awesome.

I like it Bob our guide was great. The house had many stairs, so if stairs are an issue think twice.

Beautiful mansion and has a lot to see.

Loved the phone app audio tour so we could go at our own pace.

Cool place to visit.

Beautiful antebellum mansion. Must see.

Loved our visit. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable. Even if you arent a history buff this place is an interesting place to see. We were there in winter but I bet it is outstanding in the Spring and Summer with the flowers blooming.

Wonderful tour guide. Thank you Kathleen. I will read those books. Will be back for Christmas.

We had a great time at the Bellamy Mansion last night. The atmosphere at the mansion was very conducive to this elegant, fun and interesting event. The jazz group was wonderful, playing all evening. The food was especially good “New Orleans cuisine”, featuring jambalaya, Cajun spiced shrimp, andouille sausage and more.The casino games were great fun. The staff and volunteers did a wonderful job.If you have an opportunity to attend an event at the Bellamy while you are in town, don’t miss it.

Take the guided tour! Learned stuff that we werent taught in history class. Worth the time and $$

Beautiful place. A must stop if your in the area. We made it a point to stop while on vacation.

Take the tour the video they make you watch before hand is terrible. Sorry.

So interesting, went with family that was visiting me. They all loved it!

The place is full of history and well maintained for its age. The tour guide is lovely and very enthusiastic.

A beautiful home with incredible history. Our guide was well informed and very personable. Some parts of the tour actually gave me chills just thinking about what some people endured. My wife, son and daughter also loved it, an amazing learning experience!

Great experience and we had a great tour guide

Very cool and informative. Be prepared for an hour guided tour with lots of historical information.

Takes you back in time. A must see experience... Super friendly staff..

Very interesting history. Beautiful architecture.

Got lost a bit listening to the self guide audio. Still I enjoyed my trip back in time. Really liked the house. I love the giant windows.

Beautiful old house with lots of history. Took the guided tour and worth it for all the stories that go with the house. Beth C . was great guide.

Really interesting part of pre war history. It was really awesome that Bellamy focused on the names and histories of the enslaved artisans and freemen who helped to build this impressive structure. Most often this dark part of American history is glossed over.

Knowledgeable and wonderful staff and museum!!Ive been there for a community event and for a tour and both times have been enriching.Leslie, the operations manager, stopped what she was doing during what Im sure is a really hectic role and gave us the most comprehensive history of Wilmington in under 15 minutes. She is passionate, well spoken, and an asset to the community.Please continue to do partnerships with other companies & organizations for the community, Thank you!

Very interesting Antebellum mansion. A docent wasnt available for a tour so we use the free headphones and listen to a recorded tour. It was very informative and interesting. Entire tour takes about an hour and starts with a 10 minute film.

This was a fantastic find for an afternoon in Downtown Wilmington! It was a very intimate historical site, where the staff were knowledgeable and so personable and, due to the family records and memoirs, the past feels very tangible here!

Beautiful place!

The main mansion is so gorgeous and the entire grounds is so fantastically historic. Im glad I spent my day in Wilmington here

I have fun and a great time at the family open house. My little one had so much fun.

I love learning our local history. The home is beautiful and the tour guides are very knowledgeable. I felt their love for the home and property.

Enjoyed a jazz show..they have several events

Fantastic guide. Very knowledgeable. Loved the tour. Place is amazing

Informative tour in a beautiful mansion. Highly recommend.

I enjoyed the various stories about the family and the house. The house for the slaves is in excellent condition.

Really excellent tour of this interesting house. Ken was extremely knowledgeable and went to great lengths to give us a good understanding of the history of the house and its owners and occupants.The house itself is quite an extraordinary building, solidly built but beautifully balanced and light and airy inside. The whole story gives a great insight into this turbulent time in Americas history and how it played out in Wilmington.A real gem in a beautiful town.Thank you Ken for your courtesy, expertise and time.

A must go to in the Wilmington area. If you are a history buff or just a person that enjoys beautiful homes and a quiet afternoon this is a place to go. It is gorgeous and there is much to see. Take it all in

Very good take the tour alot of info regarding history of mansion and people of those days

Self guided tours or a guided tour, they offer both. Their docents are a wealth of information.

Fantastic tour guide and house. Highly recommend.

We went on a tour of the mansion, with Wade for our guide. Wade was amazing, he knew every single thing there is to know about the mansion and it’s history. The mansion itself was very interesting, being able to learn about the occupants and slaves who lived and worked there was great

Oh, its beautiful! I absolutely enjoyed touring the house, although I thought I would melt from the heat Remember, no air conditioning in those days. And there are plenty of stairs. Take water. They have the original slave quarters on the grounds too. The guides are very good at what they do. Our guide was not only quite knowledgeable, but also a hoot! My only complaint was that they use the home to exhibit local artists work. It was strange to see modern artwork hanging in an antebellum mansion. Its definitely worth your time.

An excellent tour with knowledgeable staff. Overall this was worth the time to visit. Especially if you are into historic l as landmarks.

Our tour guide was very knowledgeable and did a great job. Lots of history here