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The McFaddin-Ward House Museum seeks quality people to become museum docents by attending its next Docent Training Program starting February 25, 2008 at 9:00 a.m. at the museum’s visitor center, located at Calder Avenue and Third Street.
The program consists of eight daytime classes and covers topics ranging from McFaddin family history to the mansion’s architecture and decorative arts. Attendees will learn the mechanics of touring and gain interpretive skills for their tours. This rewarding program requires 32 hours of class work and outside study time. Because the Docent Training and materials are free, a commitment of at least ten hours a month for three years is expected from each participant.
Graduating docents are qualified to lead visitors on tours of the three-story mansion. In addition, graduates can volunteer in other museum capacities, such as work with school groups, assist in the museum collections department, and support special events. McFaddin-Ward volunteers can benefit from its on-going lectures series, historic conferences, and field trips, while participating in social events connected to the museum.
Please call Becky Fertitta, volunteer coordinator at the McFaddin-Ward House, for details, 832-1906, or email bfertitta@mcfaddin-ward.org.
The McFaddin-Ward House, built in 1906 in Beaumont, Texas, is one of the best preserved examples of Beaux Arts Colonial Revival style homes in the United States. This historic house museum reflects the lifestyle of a prominent Southeast Texas family which gained its wealth from ranches, rice farms, and oil fields.
The house contains the original furnishings and decorative objects accumulated over a period of 80 years by W.P.H. and Ida Caldwell McFaddin and their daughter, Mamie McFaddin Ward. Mrs. Ward, who lived in the house until her death in 1982, established the Mamie McFaddin Ward Heritage Foundation to preserve the house and its contents for future generations as an educational and cultural resource. The historic house opened as a museum in March 1986. Docents are a vital resource in the museum’s high-quality offerings.
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