Chateau Fairmount

Events

Dinner Parties

Dinners here are for the household and its friends: holidays, send-offs, welcomes, and the ordinary kind where somebody cooks for everyone.

Dates are announced to invited guests. The household’s outings to New England landmarks, museums and events grew out of the same table.

The dining room set for dinner under a coffered ceiling (view full size)
The dining room set for dinner, November 2015.

The spirit of it

A dinner party here is what it would be in any home: friends at a table, cooking for each other. It is not a supper club or a pop-up restaurant. There is no menu to order from and no bill at the end, and the guest list is the host’s, not a booking sheet.

We would love to meet people who enjoy a long dinner and a good conversation, especially people who are new to Lowell, who serve their communities, or who share an interest in old houses, music, dance or history.

How to be invited

Dinner parties and the other gatherings at the house are by invitation. They are small, and the guests are friends of the house and people they introduce. There are no tickets, no sign-up page and no public dates: dates are announced to invited guests.

If you would like to be considered, write to us: tell us who you are, who introduced you or how you know the house, and which gatherings interest you. We keep a short list and send invitations as there is room at the table. We cannot answer every note, and an invitation to one evening is not a standing one.

Ask to be on the list

House standards

  • This is a private home, not a venue. Guests come as friends, by invitation, and the invitation names who is coming.
  • Nothing is sold. No tickets, no cover charge, no meals or drinks for sale, and no donation asked as the price of a seat.
  • Food is home cooking shared among friends. If you would like to bring something, bring a dish or a drink to share, homemade or bought; never something to sell.
  • The household’s private rooms are off limits, and the people who live here are not photographed or posted without their say-so.
  • Be gentle with the house and its furnishings; many of them are antiques and cannot be replaced.
  • Arrive and leave at the times on the invitation, park on the street without blocking a neighbor’s driveway, and keep voices down outside after dark.
  • If you drink, do not drive.

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