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Keeney Memorial Cultural Center, at 200 Main Street, offers gracious grounds perfect for photos or a cocktail party, free off-street parking, and is fully air-conditioned and accessible to wheelchairs. The ramped entrance to the elevator lobby makes loading meeting supplies or catering equipment a breeze.
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Keeney Hall, the spacious ballroom, is appointed with Roman shaded windows, graceful chandeliers, original hardwood floors and wainscoting and a gleaming Steinway grand piano. This unique ambiance is further enhanced by a well-equipped adjacent kitchen and a full range of meeting equipment and break-out space to meet your group’s needs. The hall accommodates 168 for a sit-down affair and 200 for theater style seating or a stand-up reception.
The Rotary Room has a capacity of 70 for lecture seating, 100 for stand-up receptions and 48 for sit-down smaller gatherings such as showers or christenings.
Breakout Rooms are also available to accommodate professional workshops or to support private gatherings, as needed.
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Wethersfield Museum on the first floor, serves as Wethersfield’s Visitors Center and features professionally designed museum exhibits that highlight the region’s important history. The principal exhibit, Legendary People, Ordinary Lives, features signature artifacts from Wethersfield Historical Society’s collections and orients guests to the people and events of the Town’s historic past. The Museum Shop features distinctive gifts, historic maps and books on local and regional history. Special tours of the museum galleries or the neighboring Hurlbut-Dunham House museum can be arranged to compliment special events.
Wethersfield’s Historic District is the largest historic district in the state, and offers visitors an authentic Connecticut valley landscape including a town green, colonial warehouse and domestic architecture that spans three centuries. The historic Webb-Deane-Stevens Museum, variety shops, restaurants and the famous Comstock-Ferre Garden Center are steps away, as are the brick 1764 Meeting House and the Town’s Ancient Burying Ground.
Copyright 2007 Wethersfield Historical Society
most recent update 7/01/07 by Doug Simpson
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