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Guided Seven Building Town Tour

… Guided Seven Building Town Tour Driving Tour Guests should have their own … and plan to follow a tour guide from site to site. Tours last approximately 2 hours. Adults: $25.00 Students: … - $10.00  Children: (5 & under) – Free Book a Tour Willa Cather Childhood Home 245 N Cedar Street The Cather family …
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 … with one or more of these tours.  The one, three, and seven building tours all include the Willa Cather Childhood Home. … last approximately 30 minutes.  Learn More Guided Three-Building Tour Experience Downtown Red Cloud This is a …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 10/29/2025

Join Our Team

… Join Our Team Career Opportunities at the National Willa Cather Center The Willa Cather Foundation—formerly the Willa … settings and archival material associated with her life and writings. Since its founding in 1955, the Foundation has …
Posted: 09/07/2023
Last Updated: 07/16/2025

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

… Image The Ribbon-Cutting in front of Hotel Garber on April 4 [see Gallery for full captions] Image … into the interior design. The hotel's name is a nod to Silas and Lyra Garber, who served as models for Captain and Mrs. …
Posted: 04/09/2025
Last Updated: 04/09/2025

Burlington Depot

… two-story section of the depot, constructed in 1897, is the building Cather was familiar with during her last years in … work at this important historic site in Red Cloud! 7-Building Tour 3-Building Tour Individual Build Tour Self Guided Tour …
Posted: 07/18/2014
Last Updated: 02/26/2025

Edem Soul Music

… Image Edem Soul Music Opera House Saturday, Dec 7, 2024 | 7:30 - 9pm Red Cloud Opera House 413 N Webster St. … in the Starke Round Barn with Hear Nebraska’s Good Living Tour video crew. Watch her perform the soothing, uplifting song “When I Fall” inside the historic building.   Listen to Edem Soul Music! ADA Accessibility The …
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 … Reopens A National Historic Landmark December 5, 2023 Book tours online ahead of your visit! Click here  to learn about … has become known as one of America’s canonical authors. The town of Red Cloud and its prairie landscapes were settings …
Posted: 12/05/2023
Last Updated: 05/21/2024

Historic Sites

… Bank In 1889, the Farmers and Merchants Bank was erected by Silas Garber, a former Union Army officer who helped to found Red … of Nebraska from 1875–1879. Governor Garber and his wife, Lyra Wheeler Garber, lived in Red Cloud while Willa Cather …
Posted: 01/16/2023
Last Updated: 05/17/2024

Willa Cather Biography

…  in 1923, parts of  The Professor's House  in 1925, and  Obscure Destinies  stories in 1932, looked back to Cather's own …
Posted: 01/11/2023
Last Updated: 01/09/2024

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