DERBY - Area garden clubs have once again adorned the Osborne Homestead Museum for the holiday season, a tradition that goes back more than 30 years.
This year's theme is "Holiday at the Opera." The house looks beautiful!
The elegant Colonial Revival-style estate at 500 Hawthorne Ave. is the lifelong home of businesswoman, conservationist, civic leader, and philanthropist Frances Osborne Kellogg. She died there in 1956 at age 80.
The museum is operated by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection.
Kellogg's uncle was an opera critic and she frequently attended the opera in New York City with him.
Members of the Derby Garden Society decorated a bedroom (shown above) once used by Eva A. Little, who was Frances Osborne Kellogg's bookkeeper and companion.
Kellogg gave life usage of the home to Little, who died in 1976 at the age of 101.
Please check out my story and photos of the decorations in the latest Valley Voice newsletter.
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