December 2 through December 22 at the Bloodworth House

Holiday House 2005
            Television producer, screenwriter and author Linda Bloodworth Thomason  invited noted Hollywood set designer Dwight Jackson to transform the English Baroque-style home into the second annual Holiday House, "A Very Literary Christmas”  -- a wonderland complete with more than two dozen designer Christmas trees, hundreds of yards of garlands, a miniature village display for children, live entertainment and more.




The main dining room of the spacious home will evoke scenes from the Charles Dickens classic, “A Christmas Carol.”

More than a dozen trees throughout the house will be decked to match other literary works, including “Gone With the Wind,” “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” and the “Harry Potter” series.

Holiday House 2005

Holiday House 2005

Holiday House 2005

Regular tour tickets for the house will be $5 for adults and $2 for children over 10 years old; children under age 10 will be admitted free. On family-day Sundays, whole families will be admitted for $10. Special events planned during the three-week exhibit include

  • Visits with Santa, from 2 to 4 p.m. Sundays. (Visits free; framed pictures $5.)
  • A holiday cooking demonstration.
  • Live performances by local musicians and choirs.
  • Live Christmas story readings for children.
  • An ornament and toy shop.

Holiday House will be open for tours Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 1 to 9 p.m. and Sundays from 1 to 6 p.m. (An exception is Thursday, Dec. 7, when the house is closed for a private event.)

Special-rate family days are Dec. 3, Dec. 10 and Dec. 17.

Dates for the cooking demonstration, musical performances, story hours and other special events will be announced.


Proceeds from tour tickets and several special events during Holiday House will go toward Claudia Foundation scholarships and programs. The foundation is a registered, non-profit, 501c(3) organization.

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