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Guided Seven Building Town Tour

Guided Seven Building Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own transportation and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 2 hours. Adults: $25.00 Students: (K - 12) - $10.00  Children: (5 & under) – Free Book a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 06/11/2025

Guided Three Building Downtown Tour

… Image Guided Three Building Downtown Tour Driving or Walking Tour This guided tour option includes the restored Willa Cather Childhood Home, the Farmers and Merchants Bank, and … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 60 minutes. Book This Tour Adults: …
Posted: 05/21/2024
Last Updated: 07/01/2024

Guided Willa Cather Tours

Guided Willa Cather Tours The National Willa Cather Center and many of our historic sites are open for guided tours year-round. Four of the historic sites are fully accessible to those with limited mobility. Begin your exploration of settings from …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Join Our Team

… Since its founding in 1955, the Foundation has been headquartered in Cather's hometown of rural Red Cloud, Nebraska.  … members at all experience levels who share our values of Connection, Creativity, Inclusiveness, Learning, … Curation Orient guests to our bookstore, exhibit, and art gallery spaces Encourage visitors to sign our guestbook as …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/16/2025

Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy

… its opening week Hotel Garber Opens in Red Cloud to Bolster Tourism and Advance Willa Cather Legacy April 9, 2025 RED … that helped rehabilitate an empty historic commercial building into a boutique hotel and event center. Leaders … of Willa Cather, the Hotel Garber project raised more than $7 million in charitable gifts and grants. Paired with an …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Burlington Depot

… original two-story section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the building Cather was familiar with during her last years in … story of the Burlington in Red Cloud!   Watch our virtual tour of the 2021 restoration and preservation work at this …
Posted: 07/18/2014
Last Updated: 02/26/2025

Edem Soul Music

… Tickets Plan to spend the first Saturday in December (and Willa Cather's birthday) listening to Edem Soul Music! You won't … vocalist, performer, and multi-instrumentalist currently living in Omaha. Originally from the East Coast, a large …
Posted: 11/13/2023
Last Updated: 11/21/2024

Restored Willa Cather Childhood Home Reopens

… Image Willa Cather Childhood Home • April 2024 Image Restored Willa … Conservation Center in Omaha, Nebraska. The project was supported by the State of Nebraska – Department of Economic … America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings in some of Cather’s most …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Historic Sites

… built in 1883 and used until 1903. The design is modest and simple, with “poor man’s stained-glass” applied to the windows made from a simple white paint featuring swirl designs. A surprise to …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

… published which have changed just how Cather is seen and understood. Two of the most prominent recent volumes are … a countryside and a people. That relationship, he knew, cannot be gone after and found; it must be long and deliberate, … The Song of the Lark  (150)—the Willa Cather who was about forty years of age was ready to do what was needed to …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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