Advanced ticket purchase is required, to avoid disappointment, as our tours often sell out. Looking to tour day of? Please call us to see what is available.
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Advanced ticket purchase is required, to avoid disappointment, as our tours often sell out. Looking to tour day of? Please call us to see what is available.
We are excited to be able to participate in this special, once in a lifetime event, on Monday, April 8th, 2024! Graycliff is Wright on the Path of totality for the Great American Eclipse, and will be offering a special Open House tour program all day!
This special Eclipse Open House tour includes a self-guided tour of the gardens, grounds, and first floor of the main house. This tour offers a more casual experience to interact with the property, and Docents will be on hand to answer questions that guests may have. All tour admissions this day will include a pair of eclipse glasses.
In addition to the Open House Tour and eclipse viewing, our friends at Tipsy Trailer and the Mad Irons Crêperie will be on hand, with special drink and lunch options for purchase! We will also host a mini-Market at Graycliff during the event.
Spaces for this special event are very limited, and available first come, first served basis. Reservations are required, as it is certain to sell out!
The Graycliff Eclipse Open House on April 8th is SOLD OUT! Couldn’t get tickets for our eclipse event? We will be offering additional Standard and Extended tours all weekend, from April 5th through 7th, and April 9th. To book your visit, call (716) 947-9217, or click here.
On Monday, April 8, 2024, there will be a total solar eclipse, and Buffalo, NY is in the direct path of totality. In a solar eclipse, the Moon gets between the Sun and Earth. In a total solar eclipse, people who are in the path of totality see the Sun’s bright disk totally covered by the Moon for a short time. The Moon will begin to cover the Sun at 2:04 pm. Using a safe solar viewing method, we will see more and more of the Sun covered by the Moon over the next 70 minutes. This time is called a partial phase because the Sun is partially covered by the Moon. Totality begins at approximately 3:15pm and lasts about 3 minutes 45 seconds for viewers on the centerline. The farther you are from the centerline, the shorter totality will last. After totality, the Moon gradually uncovers the Sun in a second partial phase. The eclipse ends for Buffalo viewers at about 4:30 pm.
Information provided by buffaloeclipse.org, image provided by greatamericaneclipse.com.
Safety while viewing the eclipse is of our utmost importance. Graycliff will provide each touring guest a pair of eclipse glasses to safely view the event on April 8th, 2024. You should never look directly at the sun for your own safety during an eclipse, as doing so could result in any number of injuries, including permanent blindness.
In addition to providing glasses to all touring guests, Graycliff will also have a limited number of Galileoscopes set up on the property, with a solar filter, to get a better view of the eclipse.
Additionally, if you can’t make it out to Graycliff for the Great American Eclipse, you can still safely view the event with a pair of Graycliff Eclipse Glasses or a Solar Snap Kit (which allows you to take great eclipse photos with your phone!)!
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff is a New York State Landmark listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Our historic site is accessible by guided tour year round.
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