Get a history lesson and sweets this weekend with the Butler County Historical Society
For $10, people can tour the Senator Walter Lowrie House this Saturday, Dec. 6, and fill up a bakery box with homemade cookies along the way.
The Butler County Historical Society’s annual Cookie Walk begins at 4 p.m. Saturday at the Lowrie House, 123 W. Diamond St. in Butler, and will feature upward of 300 dozen cookies, according to Mackenzie Herold, executive director of the society.
Herold said this is the fifth year of the Cookie Walk, which was a product of the society’s former executive director, Jen Ford. It has grown in popularity because it helps people get into the holiday spirit.
“It's all decked out in Victorian Christmas style … volunteers will be singing Christmas carols in the house,” Herold said. “They will have four rooms on display and we have our parlor/dining room and then upstairs we have three of the bedrooms, as well.”
According to Herold, volunteers help stock the historical society with cookies each year and they are placed around the house to further motivate visitors to check out each room.
The Lowrie House was built in 1828 by U.S. Sen. Walter Lowrie, and is the last of its architectural style in Butler. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The house is one of the few house museums in the country furnished with objects original to the family who occupied it, according to the historical society.
Herold said the combination of sweets and history has made the Cookie Walk a big draw over the years.
“It will be busy, for sure,” Herold said.
For more information on the Cookie Walk, visit Butlerhistory.com.
