The historic house museum, owned by Historic Salisbury Foundation, also will have a special Victorian Christmas Preview Party on Dec. 10.

The Hall House will have weekend Victorian Christmas tours Dec. 11-12 and Dec. 18-19 from 1 to 4 p.m.

Admission is $5 a person. Special group rates are available for weekday tours.

The Candlelight Tour will be held 6 to 8 p.m. Dec. 24. Admission is by donation.

The special preview party will be held from 5:30 to 8 p.m. with heavy hors d’oeuvres. Guests will be the first to see the extensive Christmas decorations

Cost is $25 per person or $35 a couple for members of the Historic Salisbury Foundation and $50 a person and $75 a couple for non-members.

Included in the price is the new postcard history book of Salisbury and Rowan County by Susan Goodman Sides, who will be signing copies. The book will retail for $18.99.

In addition, a one-year individual or family membership in Historic Salisbury Foundation is included for non-members.

The preview party also is being held prior to that evening’s Holiday Pops Concert, presented by the N.C. Symphony at Keppel Auditorium.

The concert time is 7:30 p.m. on Christmas Eve.

Reservations are required for the preview party. For information, call the Historic Salisbury Foundation at 636-0103.

For concert tickets and information, call the Salisbury Symphony at 637-4314.

Volunteers have decorated the Hall House at Christmas since the foundation’s purchase in 1972.

In the beginning, members of local home extension clubs, under the direction of Edith Hinshaw, did extensive research on the types of decorations and materials used in the Victorian era.

Live greenery available on the Hall property would have included boxwood, magnolia, nandina and holly. Family members would have brought the cuttings inside and combined them with scraps of ribbon, lace and fabric for decorations.

A Victorian family also might have a family outing to gather pine boughs to make garland.

All these elements are used in the Hall House decorations. Sarah Kellogg and Anne Horton are heading up a group of volunteers who will decorate the house.