

Welcome to Auburn's Historic Sites
Welcome to the website for the City of Auburn: History's Hometown branded by Auburn's Historic & Cultural Sites Commission. We represent a group of organizations whose mission is to promote Auburn’s attractions through collaborative marketing, programming and tourism strategies.
The Commission site organizations include Auburn Public Theater, Auburn Schine's Theatre, Cayuga Museum & Case Research Lab, Harriet Tubman Home, Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Seward House and Willard Memorial Chapel.
The Commission agencies include Auburn Enlarged City School District, Cayuga County Arts Council, Cayuga County Chamber of Commerce, Cayuga County Historian’s Office, Cayuga County Office of Tourism, and Downtown Auburn Business Improvement District.
The vision of the Commission is to position Auburn as the destination of choice in the Finger Lakes through support and promotion of its history and culture.

Saturday, January 9th, February 6th, and March 6th at 1:00pm
On the first Saturday of each month, Jennifer Haines Curator of Education and Outreach, gives her dynamic women’s tour. “Speaking for Themselves: Women of the Seward House,” refocuses the tour on Seward’s wife and daughter and dynamic times in which they lived. Explore women’s suffrage and abolition on this unique tour of the home. The women tours are open to the general public, standard admission rates apply. Reservations are recommended, please call 315/252-1283 or visit www.sewardhouse.org.
