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Bride and groom on their wedding day at Meadow Brook Hall

Guest Blog: The Beauty of Weekday Weddings

At Meadow Brook Hall, we are always looking for the best new wedding trends to ensure our brides, grooms and spouses-to-be can make their wedding dreams come true. As many plans have changed—and weddings have been postponed—due to the COVID-19 ... Read more

Couple poses in front of Meadow Brook's front gates on their wedding day

Wedding Feature: Brie & Sudhir

For Brie and Sudhir Kumar, romance is not just for a special occasion. The pair recently celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary and have built a life that celebrates small moments, simple surprises and the beauty of creating a shared family ... Read more

The front entrance of Meadow Brook Hall

Support Meadow Brook for #GivingTuesdayNow

Generosity has the power to unite and heal communities in good times and bad. As people, places and cultural institutions of all kinds grapple with the medical, societal and economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we have a chance to ... Read more

MBH Front Line Heroes

Honoring Meadow Brook’s Frontline Heroes

The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on global economies, institutions and ways of life. Today, people are living, working and growing from home in an effort to slow the spread of the virus and protect their local and global community. ... Read more

Meadow Brook Volunteers group photo

Celebrating National Volunteer Week at Meadow Brook

Message from Meadow Brook Hall Executive Director Geoff Upward: National Volunteer Week is a special time for the Meadow Brook Hall community. Quite simply, volunteers are the backbone of Meadow Brook Hall. The incredible time and effort that our volunteers ... Read more

Meadow Brook Hall's Oriele Window

Meadow Brook closed for touring through May 28

Meadow Brook Hall is closely monitoring emerging developments related to COVID-19. Following Gov. Whitmer’s latest stay-at-home order, Meadow Brook Hall and its grounds and gardens will remain closed for public touring through Thursday, May 28. With the State of Michigan ... Read more

Meadow Brook Hall

Meadow Brook Hall featured in USA Today

A National Historic Landmark, Meadow Brook Hall is known for its grand scale and incredible Tudor-revival architecture. The historic home has been featured in the USA Today article, “Mansions Across America: A Look at the Grandest Historic Mansion in Each ... Read more

Sun flares over the gazebo at Meadow Brook Hall in early spring

Message from the Executive Director

In these challenging, and in our lifetimes unprecedented, days, those of us who believe that the past can inform the future can look to two of the arguably greater minds and leaders of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Abraham Lincoln ... Read more

Close up image of colorful plated entree at Meadow Brook Hall.

Meadow Brook reveals inspired new menus

There is no match so universally pleasurable as good food and good company. It’s one of the most significant ways in which we celebrate and come together for occasions both big and small. While dining has always been an important ... Read more

White spring flowers in bloom

Spring Events are Coming to Meadow Brook

Meadow Brook Hall is set to celebrate springtime with a series of engaging and whimsical events in the house and grounds of the National Historic Landmark, located on the campus of Oakland University. Featured events include the family-friendly Breakfast with ... Read more

Photo of George Karas, Oakland University's first employee

Remembering George Karas, OU’s first employee

In the Fall of 1957, George Karas became the first employee of the yet-to-be-built Michigan State University-Oakland. He was hired personally by university founder Matilda Dodge Wilson and was the 18th engineer to work at Meadow Brook Hall. With a ... Read more