9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Evergreens, birds, berries, angels, wreaths and candles combine to create a festive holiday atmosphere for the 26th annual Christmas Walk through the Pella Historical Village.
Begin your Christmas tour in the lavishly decorated Interpretive Center. The miller's quarters in the Vermeer Windmill echo the Village's traditional Dutch holiday spirit.
The childhood home of Frontier Deputy Marshal Wyatt Earp, is decorated in frosty white poinsettias with blue and silver accents. Upstairs, garlands of pink roses welcome the holiday season.
A Christmas Walk favorite is a stop in the Dutch Bakery for a complementary cup of coffee, tea or cocoa with a Jaarsma St. Nick cookie.
Woolly mittens and elves turn the black smith's shop into a fanciful
scene. Christmas frogs and a garden theme surround the crackling fire in the log cabin.
Snowmen peek through the windows of the pottery shop while patriotic bears
give an election year salute from the Weerkplaats wooden shoe shop window.It's a sunflower Christmas in the Old Mill and a North Woods theme fills the Van Spankeren Store with twig and moose decorations. Sun bonnet dolls host the season in the Farm House filled with red work embroidery. The highlights of the Scholte Church are a 10-foot Christmas tree and Victorian decorations.
Outside, the Village lawn shines like a Christmas jewel as thousands of tiny lights come on at dusk.
Christmas Walk admission includes complimentary coffee time in the Dutch Bakery.
Closed Sundays, Thanksgiving, Christmas, & Jan. 1, 2009 Closed for the months of January and February 2009. Tours can be arranged during those times by contacting Bonnie at 641-620-9463.
Adults $8; Students $2
group rates available
Pella Historical Society members free.
Find inspiration in the beauty of Christmas throughout the 20 quaint
buildings of the Historical Village and 30 lavishly decorated Christmas trees.Dec. 17, 2009 (1-night event)
5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Pella Historical Society members free, guests $3
Freewill donation dessert buffet fund raiser
The Pella Historical Society's special dessert buffet fund raiser allows members to enjoy an evening Christmas Walk lit by twinkling lights.
The
tour begins in the Wyatt Earp House office where memberships may be
purchased. An elegant dessert buffet is served in the Dutch Bakery.Enjoy music by de
klokkenluiders community handbell choir at 6:30 and 7:30 in Scholte
Church. Take advantage of this
opportunity to join the Pella Historical Society.
Special displays accent the Village Christmas Walk.
A Hummel Nativity scene is on display amidst the Magnolia, fruit and
brocade decorations in Heritage Hall. Collections of
Sinterklaas figures and traditional Sinterklaas items from the Netherlands
are arranged in the Hindeloopen niche upstairs in Heritage Hall.