Hearthside Dinners at the Wade House

Hearthside Dinners at the Wade House is a series of events where guests enjoy a delicious heart-cooked meal, prepared with their own hands, in the historic Wade House stagecoach hotel. You'll prepare unique 19th-century dishes on a wood-burning stove and over an open hearth fire just as Betsey Wade did more than 150 years ago. This event culminates in a wonderful sit-down, family-style meal in the lovely Wade House dining room.

• Wisconsin Winter | Saturday, January 28 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Yankee | Saturday, February 4 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Wisconsin Winter | Saturday, February 18 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Yankee | Saturday, March 4 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• German | Saturday, March 25 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Yankee | Saturday, April 8 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• German | Saturday, April 22 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• German | Saturday, November 4| 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• German | Saturday, November 11 | 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Cost : $75 per person

Guests must be age 13 or older to attend. Advanced registration is required, registration will end the Wednesday prior to the specific event date.

About the Dinner Themes

Wisconsin Winter: This meal's theme is Wisconsin Winter and includes wild rice soup, pork ragout, maple glazed sweet potatoes, baked macaroni and cheese, buttermilk biscuits, lemon applesauce, and cranberry apple cobbler.

Yankee: This meal's theme is Yankee menu and includes corn chowder, Yankee pot roast with vegetables, ragout of French beans or succotash, brandied cranberry sauce, brethren cheddar bread, apple pandowdy, and Muster Day gingerbread.

German: This meal's theme is German menu and includes potato leek soup, sauerbraten (spiced beef roast), spaetzle (German noodles), Dutch beans/carrots, Pennsylvania style sauerkraut, apple bread and krumkake (sour bream coffee cake).

About the Location 
Explore the horse-powered world that existed before planes, cars, and railroads at Wade House. Here the golden era of carriages lives on forever, with historic structures and a state-of-the-art museum highlighting all its wonders. The site features the stagecoach hotel built and owned by Sylvanus and Betsey Wade, the first European settlers of Greenbush. The site is also home to a blacksmith shop, sawmill, and the Wesley W. Jung Carriage Museum, which houses Wisconsin’s largest collection of carriages and wagons.

Wade House Historic Site
W7965 State Hwy 23
Greenbush, WI 53026