Hormel Historic Home

Built in 1871, the Hormel Historic Home strives to preserve the Home and History of the George A. and Lillian Hormel Family.
Now a historic house museum and community resource with a mission to preserve the home and to honor the family legacy of Hospitality, Music, Education, and community service through meaningful programming and outreach.

With the addition of our Carriage Hall Event Center, we also chose to add onto our mission and create Autism Programming to serve youth on the spectrum and their families. That programming, now called Autism Friendly Austin (part of the Hormel Historic Home), is making our community more inclusive and understanding of autism spectrum disorder.

Office and Tour Hours
Most* Tuesdays-Fridays 10am-4pm
*If you are traveling from a distance you're welcome to call us to check tour hour updates as we sometimes have events who rent the historic house for special events. We also do our best to update our social media, website calendar, Google business hours, and place a sign on the front door or porch if hours will differ.

Special Event Hours Vary and are Customized Per Event

The Hormel Historic Home is an independent 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. The Hormel Historic Home is not own, operated, or operationally funded by any corporation, historical society, county, city or foundation. Tours, memberships, donations, gift shop purchases, and venue rentals support the Historic House Museum's operations and programming. We thank you for your support!

Diversity has shaped our history.
The foundation of the Hormel Historic Home organization was built by a man who experienced and embraced cultural differences in his family and workplace. We honor that historic foundation by pursuing, encouraging, supporting and celebrating diverse voices in our employees, volunteers, donors, and clients. We welcome those diverse in age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or mental ability, ethnicity, and perspective to help shape our future through innovation and outreach in the community we serve.

Hormel Historic Home
208 4th Ave. NW
Austin, MN 55912
507-433-4243

Executive Director:
Cindy Meany
cindy@hormelhistorichome.org

Operations Manager:
Amanda Barber
amanda@hormelhistorichome.org

Community Autism Resource Specialist:
Beth Tobak
beth@hormelhistorichome.org

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Hormel Historic Home

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