A Fieldtrip: 20 Days of the Holiday Train Show
Posted in Holiday Train Show on December 14 2011, by Matt Newman
“Our club was so inspired that we started our own building project here in Connecticut.”
From now until December 17, our visitors will be sharing their fondest memories from 20 years of the Holiday Train Show–some of them touching, some comical, and every one of them cherished. Come back to Plant Talk each day for a new story, which you can see after the jump along with a feature on one of the many replica New York City landmarks on display in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory–the Guggenheim Museum, Yankee Stadium, the Empire State Building and more.
As a bonus, read on to find out how you can win a Family Four-Pack of Holiday Train Show tickets for yourself!
Last winter we took our group from the Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich, CT to see the Holiday Train Show, and it was a huge hit! Our members were awed by the amazing displays and holiday atmosphere. Two of our board members, Liz Nolan and Gillian Steel, hosted our trip and treated the kids to delicious cookies and hot chocolate at the end of the night. One member, Alexis Reyes, came away more than impressed:
“I loved the train show and can’t wait for it to be Christmas so we can go again! The buildings were amazing. We saw the Brooklyn Bridge, Yankee Stadium and a million others. It is so cool the way they made everything out of stuff you would find outside. The cookies were really good too!”
Our club was so inspired that we started our own building project here in Connecticut. We picked several iconic buildings around Greenwich and are making models to set up behind our train on our Education floor. We’ll send pictures when we finish!
—Stephanie P.
The Jewish Museum
C.P.H. Gilbert, a prominent New York architect of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, designed this building as a private home for the family of Felix Warburg. Gilbert’s specialty was designing grand, chateau-style houses on Fifth Avenue for wealthy New York patrons like investment bankers Warburg and Otto Kahn, and entrepreneur Frank Woolworth.
In 1944, the Warburg family donated the home to the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, which reopened it as the Jewish Museum in 1947.
Enter to win 2011 Holiday Train Show Tickets
Click here for your chance to win a Four-Pack of tickets to this year’s Holiday Train Show! We’ll pick one lucky winner each day through December 17. Tickets valid for visits on select dates; read official rules by clicking here.
