Our SOS Annual Meeting and Music Program will be on March 18 at 7:30pm in the NPS Ballroom. We’re giving two special tours this season, a Spring Glen Tour and a Sculpture tour. See our Upcoming Events page for details.

Our monthly guided tours start in March and go through November on the 4th Saturday of each month. See the full schedule and details here.

The National Park Seminary opened its doors to students 130 years ago today!

SOS is happy to invite you to the Ballroom at National Park Seminary for an inside look at the 35-year history of Save Our Seminary as seen through the eyes of Bonnie Rosenthal, long-time executive director of SOS. See Upcoming Events for more information.

Tours are on the fourth Saturday of the month and begin at 1:00 pm and last about 2 hours. Free for SOS members and $10 for non-members. Check out our SOS Guided Tours page for more details.

March 23 – Next Tour
April 27
May 25
June 22
July 27
August 24
September 28
October 26
November 23

A small celebration was held on Sunday, August 6 to welcome back the newly conserved statue of Hiawatha.

SOS has planned three events for this spring—the restoration of the Hiawatha statue, a special tour of the Glen, and the history of the B&O Railroad that served Forest Glen. See Upcoming Events for details and to register for these events.

SOS will present an online program this Wednesday evening of live readings of letters written by a few students and excerpts from the diary of a student of National Park Seminary. Please see the Upcoming Events page for more details.

SOS has rescheduled its special tour of the historic Glen at National Park Seminary for Sunday, November 20. Reservations are required.

After years of planning for the restoration of Hiawatha, the historic Native American statue next to the Spanish mission house at Linden Lane and Woodstock, Save Our Seminary is thrilled to announce that on Thursday, October 27, the statue is being removed by special art movers and taken to the selected conservator’s shop.

The old yellow primer will be removed, cracks in the metal repaired, a new bow created, and paint applied to match Hiawatha’s original color of bronze. Pending weather, the deteriorated stone pedestal will also be dismantled and rebuilt exactly as the original. We hope to celebrate Hiawatha’s return by early spring if not before.

Thanks to the generous donors to Save Our Seminary, another piece of sculpture history at National Park Seminary will be restored.