LIT for the Holidays
Read House & GardensA national Historic Landmark by night, lit up inside and out with displays by artists from New Castle, Wilmington, Philadelphia, San Diego, Hollywood, Sarasota, and Albuquerque.
The 14,000-square-foot Read House was built around 1800 along the cobblestone streets of Old New Castle, steps away from where William Penn first landed in America. It remains one of the finest examples of federal-period architecture. In the 1920s it became a social hub again, complete with its own basement speakeasy, and has turned up in magazines from Town & Country to Mademoiselle.
Like the generations before us who saw and decorated the Read House through the lens of their own times, the artists and community who come together at LIT for the Holidays help us find new ways of seeing an old house and landscape.
