VanCleave HallScott-Hanna-Moore House · c. 1834
VanCleave Hall dressed for autumn, with pumpkins lining the walk and porch rail beneath the turret

VanCleave Hall · Marion, Alabama

Events

Open days, festivals and tours at a National Register-listed historic home.

Upcoming

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VanCleave Hall's porch steps lined with stacked pumpkins and corn stalks wrapped around the white columns
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Great Pumpkin Festival

Saturday, October 31, 2026 · 1 – 3 pm

A free family festival with pumpkin painting, live music, games and more.

Event details
Looking down from the stair landing into the entry hall: a white fretwork arch, a crystal chandelier before the stained-glass front door, and a round table on heart-pine floors
Perry County Historical and Preservation Society

Historic Home Tour

Saturday, December 12, 2026 · 10 am – 4 pm

VanCleave Hall is a featured house on the Perry County Historical and Preservation Society's tour.

Event details
Stacked pumpkins on the brick porch steps and corn stalks wrapped around the turned columns
Hosted at VanCleave Hall

Great Pumpkin Festival

Families are invited to celebrate fall with pumpkin painting, live music, games and more during The Great Pumpkin Festival on Saturday, Oct. 31, at historic VanCleave Hall and the Project Horseshoe Farm Community Garden in Marion.

The free community festival will be held from 1-3 p.m. and bring together two neighboring properties for an afternoon of family-friendly activities, creativity and community fellowship.

  • DateSaturday, October 31, 2026
  • Time1 – 3 pm
  • WhereVanCleave Hall, 102 West Monroe Street, and the neighboring Project Horseshoe Farm Community Garden, Marion, Alabama
  • DetailsFree and open to the community. Pumpkin painting, live music, games and more for the whole family.
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Looking down from the stair landing into the entry hall: a white fretwork arch, a crystal chandelier before the stained-glass front door, and a round table on heart-pine floors
Perry County Historical and Preservation Society

Historic Home Tour

VanCleave Hall is a featured house on the Perry County Historical and Preservation Society's Historic Home Tour. Step inside the National Register-listed Scott-Hanna-Moore House during the holiday season and see the fretwork entry hall, the parlors and the house that traveled to Marion, alongside other historic homes in town.

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VanCleave Hall's turret and wraparound porch with a line of pumpkins curving along the front walk
Autumn at VanCleave Hall
Black rocking chairs on the wraparound porch, with pumpkins along the white spindle railing
Pumpkins stacked on the porch steps and corn stalks on the columns

Every year

Annual traditions

VanCleave Hall hosts only twelve weddings a year so the house can keep its own traditions. Dates are posted here as they are set.

Annual

Garden Party

An afternoon among the historic roses as the garden comes into bloom.

Annual

Fall Festival

This year it's the Great Pumpkin Festival on October 31.

Seasonal

Christmas at the House

Holiday events, including the Historic Home Tour on December 12.

Host your own

Private events & weddings

Rehearsal dinners, showers, garden parties, milestone celebrations and just twelve weddings a year, in a home built c. 1834.

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