Westbury House Tours

Guided Tours of Westbury House and the Gardens

Join a guided tour led a volunteer docent.

Tours are approximately 45 minutes. Tours of Westbury House meet in the Front Hall of Westbury House and tours of the gardens meet at the West Porch Beech, adjacent to Westbury House.

Tours are scheduled on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.

Included with general admission.

Self-guided Tours of Westbury House

Explore the country home of John and Margarita Phipps and their four children at your own pace. The Phipps’s carefully designed and curated home reveals their deep love for art and design, from architecture and landscape to their impressive personal collection of art and antiques.

Included with general admission.

Westbury House closes 1:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. for lunch. The house closes daily at 5:30 p.m.

Behind the Scenes Tour: Secrets of the Service Wing

$21 General Admission; $19 ages 62+, $5 Members; $4 Member children (ages 6-17), Tickets are limited to 12 persons per session.

Tickets for this tour include access to Westbury House and the gardens; ticket holders may arrive prior to their scheduled tour. All tickets are non-refundable.

For many years visitors to Westbury House asked what was beyond the first-floor corridor. Now they can go beyond the door and discover “secrets of the service wing.”

In this 60-minute guided tour you’ll be introduced to the intensive labor required to create the lifestyle experienced by the Phipps and their guests. You’ll tour the many rooms that were “behind the scenes” to create the formal dining experiences of the social peers of the Phippses in the early 20th century. You’ll go along the corridors to the butler’s pantry and silver cleaning room then descend the 17 steps to the kitchen, scullery, and wine storage rooms located on the ground floor.

This tour lasts a little over one hour and because of its physical demands, it is not recommended for individuals with limited mobility or children under 8 years of age. This tour requires descending a narrow staircase of 17 steps down to the ground floor/basement, so no person (including children and infants) may be lifted or carried throughout the tour.