Step back in time and join us as Madison-Morgan Cultural Center presents our 2024 Holiday Tour of Homes showcasing some of the most beautifully preserved antebellum homes decorated in festive holiday decor. The tour is a self-guided walking tour, featuring historic homes in and around Madison.
The Madison Holiday Tour of Homes will be held on Friday, December 6th and Saturday, December 7th. Day Tour hours will be from 10am - 4pm, and Candlelight Tour will be from 5pm - 9pm on both Friday and Saturday. Group tours are also available.
Ticket Pricing:
Earlybird Day Tour Only: $30
Earlybird Candlelight Tour Only: $30
Earlybird Day & Candlelight Combo: $50
Earlybird ticket pricing through November 30th. After that day, Day Tour / Candlelight Tour (Single) tickets increase to $40 per person, and the Combination ticket increases to $70.
We are so excited to showcase many of Madison’s historic and treasured homes, such as the beautiful and exquisite Poullain Heights.
Poullain Heights
Excerpt from Madison: A Classic Southern Town by William R. Mitchell, Jr.
This property, with its expansive grounds, canopy of large trees, and allée of oaks, is located only about a half-mile from the Madison town square, but it evokes the notion of a country estate. The two-story Neoclassical Revival house was built in 1905 by two sisters from the Poullain family - Sara (Mrs. Robert Harris Campbell) and Florida (Mrs. Charles L. C. Thomas) - and the property became known as Poullain Heights.
Today it is surrounded by a small-town surburban landscape, but it is part of the unlikely intersection of two remarkable families, each descended from prominent surgeons in the Revolutionary War - Dr. Lancelot Johnston and Antoine Poullain.
For many years, it was the home of Miss Florida Campbell Prior, a Poullain descendant who lived here with her mother and inherited the place in 1958. In the 1980s, it was owned by the Baron and Baroness Werner von Hanstein and then, in the early 1990s, by Ed and Louise Hannah, now of Magnolia House. Today, it is the private home of Shawn and Francis Jan.