AKRON, Ohio - Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens is among 20 historic homes chosen to compete for a top spot in the holiday historic home tour category in USA Today’s 10 Best Readers' Choice Awards.

Readers can vote here for Stan Hywet every day until noon on Monday, Dec. 10.

Stan Hywet’s annual Deck the Hall holiday tour features a million holiday lights and decorations. It takes place from 5 to 8 p.m., on the following dates: Nov. 23-25, Nov. 29-30 and Dec 1-2, 6-9, 13-23 and 26-30. Stan Hywet is at 714 North Portage Path.

This year, 20 rooms in the manor house have been decorated as well as the gardens and grounds of the estate. The event is themed “A Winter Wonderland,” with Santa lighting the Christmas tree in the courtyard every evening at 5:30 p.m.

The Deck the Hall tour begins in the courtyard, with animated shop windows outside Molly's Shop, while a Gingerbread Bakeshop features bakers in motion and a downtown Akron scene from the 1920s-holiday season.

Nearby, an animatronic Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and Santa are in Rudolph's Corral, with Rudolph neighing and moving as his nose glows red.

This year, the annual outdoor light show, Dazzle, includes new decorative elements that are choreographed to Christmas songs that play in the gardens with a 25-foot Christmas tree in the center. The Playgarden in Gingerbread Land features giant candy canes, gingerbread men and holiday lights.

Stan Hywet Hall & Gardens Deck the Hall 2018

"Garden Under Glass," an indoor decorated tropical garden in the Corbin Conservatory will feature the traditional 20-foot poinsettia tree, which has become a photo-op holiday tradition.

For many Akronites, Stan Hywet Hall is considered a local treasure. The estate is the city's largest national historic landmark, and the nation's 6th largest historic home open to the public.

Stan Hywet was built between 1912 and 1915 by F. A. Seiberling, co-founder with brother C.W. Seiberling of the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. He built the home so he and his wife, Gertrude, would have space for a growing family. It includes five buildings and 10 gardens on 70 acres. The family lived on the property for 40 years.

It is an accredited museum of the American Alliance of Museums, one of only 26 in Ohio and 776 in the U.S. Stan Hywet offers tours and special events year round, including Akron-area favorites the Easter Egg Hunt & Breakfast, the Father's Day Car Show, Ohio Mart specialty arts and crafts show, the interactive Murder in the Mansion and the holiday extravaganza Deck the Hall. For more information about Deck the Hall, visit Stan Hywet’s website.

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