Please join us on the grounds of the historic Hermitage for a gathering of Classic British Motorcars and Motorcycles!

This event is a great day-trip destination for families to view classic British automobiles and motorcycles and talk to the owners. Walk the shaded ground and take a tour inside the National Historic Landmark. Pack a picnic lunch or purchase fish and chips from our English food truck. A fun day for the whole family

Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children 6-12 (children under 6 are free)

Some funding provided by NJ Historical Commission

You are cordially invited to proper Victorian Afternoon Tea at the Hermitage!

From 1-4PM, sip some tea, enjoy some traditional tea sandwiches, scones and desserts, and learn a bit of history about formal tea parties, games, and traditions. Have some fun and wear your best hat! The tea itself will take place at the John Rosencrantz House and then we invite you to walk over to the Hermitage and hear the story of “the Hermitage Tea Room” which the ladies of the hermitage successfully operated from 1917-1931 to help make ends meet. Take a tour of our gardens and hear our master gardeners ttalk about the lovely heirloom plants and herbs. You can also take a walk and hear about Theodosia Prevost (who married Aaron Burr at the Hermitage in 1782) as well as the Rosencrantz family who occupied the home for 163 years! To quote Alice in Wonderland, it promises to be “curiouser and curiouser!”

Tickets are $60 per person and available at the link below!

If you wish to be seated with friends, please call the front desk at 201.445.8311 and submit your request upon the purchase of your tickets!

Please join us and be a part of Living History!

This July 15th come experience American history firsthand as the members of Outwater’s Militia and George Washington himself will be here on the grounds reenacting the time that Washington’s troops actually stayed at the Hermitage in 1778. There will also be a blacksmith, a lace maker, dancers, cooks and more doing demonstrations and recreating this historic time! It’s a fantastic, interactive day for the whole family! Tickets are $10 adults, $5 children and children under 5 are free and are available at the gate.

“At Mrs. Prevost’s we found some fair refuges from New York who were on a visit to the lady of the Hermitage. With them we talked and walked and laughed and danced and gallanted away the leisure hours of four days and four nights and would have gallanted and danced and laughed and talked and walked with them until now, had not the General given orders for our departure.”

-James McHenry, July 1778