Explore 'The Stairs Below' In Tour At Norwalk's Lockwood-Mathews Mansion

10/17/2015 4:00 a.m.

French nursemaid Anna Françoise cared for Charles T. Mathews as an infant, 1865. Learn more about the Mathews family on a tour of the Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum in Norwalk. Photo Credit: *Courtesy Historic New England*

Louisa Lockwood with children Photo Credit: *Courtesy Historic New England*

Trade card for Sapolio Soap, undated. Photo Credit: *Courtesy Historic New England*

NORWALK, Conn. -- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum curator Kathleen Motes Bennewitz will lead a walking tour of "The Stairs Below: The Mansion's Domestic Servants, 1868-1938" on Oct. 21.

Bennewitz will share the history of the mansion's servants during a walking tour that features costumed vignettes, historic artifacts and the recently restored servants' quarters. She will also detail some of the relationships between the servants and the Lockwood and Mathews families.

The walking tour begins at 11 a.m. Admission is $30 (or $25 for members) and includes the walking tour and lunch courtesy of Michael Gilmartin's Outdoor Cookers Catering & Event Planning.

To RSVP, contact info@lockwoodmathewsmansion.com or 203-838-9799, ext. 4 to purchase tickets. Space is limited.

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