Holidays & lights · Rome City, Indiana
A Dream of Beauty: Gene's Holiday Home
Sunday 6 December 2026 · 1–5 pm
The Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site on Sylvan Lake recreates the author's Christmas decorations in her cabin home, with holiday treats, crafts, horse-drawn wagon rides and Santa; site admission applies.
Sunday 6 December, 1–5 pm.
From the record. Gene Stratton-Porter decorated the house for Christmas 1917 and called it 'a dream of beauty'; the site recreates the decorations as she described them each year.
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