Slifer House
Slifer House Museum to Hold Rummage Sale
May 25, 2007
The Slifer House Museum, located at 80 Magnolia Drive in Lewisburg, will be holding a rummage sale on Wednesday, June 13 from 8:30 a.m. until 3 p.m. The proceeds from the sale will be utilized to support the Museum’s dual mission of education and preservation.
The museum is currently seeking donations of clothing, furniture, household goods, sporting equipment, books (but no National Geographics or Readers’ Digest Condensed Books, please), appliances, holiday decorations, games and puzzles, children’s toys, picture frames, tools, and bric-a-brac to be sold at the rummage sale. Donated items should be in reasonable shape. Donations may be dropped off at the Museum during regular business hours (Monday – Friday, 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.) or dropped off on the front porch of the Museum after business hours up until the day of the sale.
The museum is the former home of Eli Slifer. Slifer distinguished himself in the political arena, serving as both Treasurer and Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and as a manufacturer of farming equipment and machinery. His accumulation of wealth during the golden age of machinery in the late 1840s-early 1850s prompted him to purchase an approximate 100 acre site on which he had the mansion now known as Slifer House Museum built. The house, consisting of twenty one rooms, was designed by the well-known Philadelphia architect Samuel Sloan for the princely sum of $8,000. It is listed on both the National and state Registers of Historic Sites.
To learn more about the Slifer House, contact us by e-mail or call (570) 524-2245.
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