You will not see all 175 rooms. Nobody does. But the Yuletide at Winterthur tour takes you through a curated route of decorated period rooms in one of the largest historic houses in America, and in 2026 it runs from November 21 through January 3, with candlelit evening hours on select Fridays and Saturdays.
Winterthur, in northern Delaware near Wilmington, describes itself as the premier museum of American decorative arts, with nearly 90,000 objects made or used in America since 1640. That collection is displayed in the 175-room house, much as it was when the family of founder Henry Francis du Pont lived there, according to the museum. Du Pont grew up on the estate, filled the house with American furniture, ceramics, silver, and textiles, and arranged them in period rooms. He opened it as a museum in 1951…