Biddle House

The Biddle House (ca. 1780) was restored in 1959, through the efforts of the Michigan Society of Architects and Michigan Builders, to represent the 1820s era. The historic building includes period settings of furnishings from the early 19th century and craft interpreters demonstrating the domestic life from Mackinac's fur trade era.

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A craft demonstrater showing young visitors carding of wool.

Craft Demonstrations By Interpreters

The Biddle House teems with living history as interpreters demonstrate numerous crafts from the 1820s. Visitors can view cooking, spinning, weaving, dying, gardening, and many other activities by craft demonstraters.

A craftee by the Biddle House herb garden.

From Garden.......

Biddle House interpreters share with visitors how gardens and herb gardens played an important role in early 19th-century households. Craft demonstraters show the complete food preparation process from garden to kitchen to table.

A craft interpreter preparing food in the Biddle House kitchen.

.....To Kitchen.......

Craft demonstraters show how people prepared and cooked food in the 1820s. They use early 19th-century receipes and kitchen tools to recreate authentic meals at the Biddle House.

Meal time at the Biddle House.

......To Table

Craft demonstraters daily prepare historically accurate meals at the Biddle House. They demonstrate to visitors the complete food preparation process in the early 19th century ending in scrumptous meals.