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Seward House Museum

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The Seward House Museum in Auburn preserves the home of William Henry Seward and his family. Seward served as New York governor, a U.S. senator, and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. Guided interpretation connects his public career with the family home and its collections, giving nineteenth-century history a domestic setting.

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National history also has a household scale. In Auburn, the Seward House Museum brings the career of William Henry Seward into the setting of his family home, with collections that open a more personal view of the nineteenth century.

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