The Ripon Historical Society will be opening the Pedrick-Lawson House, barn, and Pickard House at 508 Watson Street for the Ripon Chamber of Commerce Twilight Garden Tour on Saturday, July 19, 2025, from 4:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Behind the Pedrick-Lawson House is found a heritage garden containing plants which would have been found in early Ripon and Wisconsin gardens.
Also in the garden are two grave markers. One marker, sculpted by Cyrus Pedrick, was a headstone for his nephew, Charlie Pedrick (1861-1862). The headstone was removed and replaced in 1920. Charlie died of scarlet fever at fourteen months old. The marker is two feet tall and features a kneeling boy. The other marker is broken and unidentified but for a birth date of 1831 and a death date sometime in the 1860s. It was found outside of the John Scott Horner house, 336 Scott Street, when recent renovations were started on the early 1850’s house.
The Society has brought the outdoors inside, featuring a garden inspired mini exhibit in the Pickard House Museum, in celebration of the upcoming Twilight Garden Tour this July 19th.
One of the items on display is a painting of lilies on velvet c1890, by Charlotte Kingsbury, daughter of Philo England. Also on display are an 1878 courting candle, a tulip applique quilt, and linoleum prints by artist, Evelyn Kain (1946-2022).
The Lola Smith Collection will be shown, in its entirety, on our flatscreen TV the day of the Twilight Garden Tour event. If you can’t make the event, the collection is available for viewing online via the CatalogIt HUB. Just go to our website at riponhistory.org and click on “EXPLORE OUR COLLECTION.”
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