Ran across the Harper House in Hickory on a rainy day! What a fun place to visit. The staff were awesome! The tour was great learning about the Harper House and all the history behind it. The tour lasted about a hour. Fyi.... you do need to be able to climb stairs for the tour. Not a lot, but there is a second floor and an attic area to tour as well as a basement. Also, at the main building there is more to tour in their basement, which does have an elevator and bathrooms there. The basement has much history on prohibition, Nascar, etc. There are some more rooms to tour over there and a little gift shop area. They also rent that building out for small weddings, dinners, meetings, etc. They do have a kitchen area for things to be catered in. Very lovely! Definitely a fun thing to do when you are in Hickory! Highly recommend!

Loved it! $10 each adult for a tour of the Victorian house. Beautiful home with gorgeous woodwork, antique furniture and unique wallpaper. Recommend!

Our 2-hour tour of the Harper House today was wonderful. Everything about the house interior, the woodwork, fireplaces, wallpaper & drapes, the furniture, and all the attention to details is outstanding. Our guide's knowledge was excellent. And we'll add that downtown Hickory is very pretty, with lots of shops, restaurants, & pubs. Don't miss Olde Hickory Station for lunch or dinner.

It was a rainy day and my wife and I were looking for something to do locally. I remembered a friend of mine telling me about touring the Harper House located in downtown Hickory, NC. I called to make sure they were open today, they were so we went for a tour. A little history: Built in 1887 by Daniel Webster Shuler who founded Hickory's first bank. Traditional Queen Anne architectural elements characterize the house from the hipped roof with lower cross gables, to the scalloped wooden shingles and stained glass windows. Considered by the North Carolina Department of Archives and History to possess "the finest Queen Anne interior styling in the entire state,” the Harper House is located at 310 N. Center Street. It is named the Harper House because the Harper family (last of seven families to occupy the house) stay was by far the longest—from 1923 until December 21, 2000. The interior is for the most part completely restored. The house is also totally furnished with period pieces. Unfortunately I was not allowed to take photos inside the house which was a bummer. 🙁 We had a guided tour which lasted I'm guessing 45 minutes to and hour. Sidney was our tour guide. She was both very personable and knowledgeable of the property. Ghost Alert: 👻 Upon entering the house my wife commented in addition to admiring the beauty of the interior that she imagined the house was kind of creepy at night - like most Victorian style homes. Our tour guide stated there was the occasional unexplained occurrence in the home from time to time. She also said there has been at least two paranormal groups who has done paranormal investigations at the home in the past. We then entered a room downstairs with a beautiful carved cherry wood fireplace mantel. There was a painting on the wall of Mrs. Shuler, the original and first "lady of the house". Our tour guide stated Mrs. Shuler has been married 3 times in her life. My wife commented that was usual for that time period. Our tour guide stated "tongue and cheek" that she always assumed Lady Shuler married the first time for love, the second time for money and the third time for fun! We all laughed. Right as we were laughing there was loud noise - like a bang or pop that seemed to come from the location of that fireplace mantel. I chuckled that either Mrs. Shuler didn't like us laughing about her 3 marriages or she was agreeing! 😂 But anyway we may have actually experienced a paranormal event at the house! 😱😳👻🤣 The cost is $10.00 for adults. There are tours every hour on the hour. I highly recommend visiting this house if you like touring old homes. It is beautifully restored inside and out! 👍

Very cool tour. Tour guide is very knowledgeable & thorough. The cost of the tour goes towards maintaining the home ... well worth it!

Friendly docent. Gorgeous house. We are so lucky to have this treasure in our area.

Very beautiful house and a great tour guide. Very enjoyable and educational experience would highly recommend! Also beautiful house next door which is the museum.

Extremely fascinating speakeasy era history here! Incredible interior. Make sure you watch the North Carolina Weekend episode on PBS about this place!

Such a fun, knowledgeable tour! The house is so well preserved and there is almost no place you couldn't go inside. $10 / person felt like a steal for the tour.

If you are into visiting old houses, this is one place to go. Me and my brother and our wives toured the house with Stacy as our guide. The first floor stairs and floors are all wood. Lots to see and learn the history. Several surprise rooms. When you sign up, for the house tour, look around the house, that was moved to the current location and visit the display regarding the history of infantile paralysis in Hickory.

I absolutely loved the tour and learned a lot about the Harper House and Hickory history! Sidney is a very fun and knowledgeable tour guide!

We loved our tour! The tour guide was professional and you could tell she loved her job. The house was extremely clean!

Excellent tour guide! House was breathtaking! Would definitely go back and highly recommend a visit!

Wonderful late 1800s house; well maintained; very educational.

I love the history of this house and the stories they tell. We have been to the Halloween tour and the regular tour.

Terrific presentation today showing a preview of a documentary about the 1964 Ridgeview Panthers football team.

I took my 92 year old mother and we had a blast!! The tour guide was awesome. Three floors of beautiful history. A must see!!!!! (-:

Christmas decorations were beautiful and it was a creative fund raiser for the house as well. It is a lovely old Victorian Home with a wonderful caretaker house there, too. Great place to book special events.

Very cool history, and very professional staff. So glad there are people willing to preserve history like this.

The historical society exhibition next door is excellent, and Harper House itself is beautiful and fascinating.