Whalehead Club Review

Beautifully restored, this is a must see! Great piece of local history. Small fee to enter ($7 per person I think). If you are into the history of the area, this should be included in your day. A self guided tour takes about 25 minutes or so.

Very beautiful and well maintained park on the water!

Excellent self tour with audio. There are stairs some are steep so to take this inexpensive tour you must be mobile enough.
Covid19 precautions were enforced. Need a mask
Hand sanitizers were provided.
Beautiful and educational. About 45 min self tour.

Always a great visit! Lots to see, walks are easy & free & educational!

Charming home with many beautiful art nouveau design elements throughout the house. While certainly not on par with any of the mansions in Newport, it was quite an extravagant hunting cottage for its day. Fantastic views! The staff were very friendly and knew the house well. My kids had fun with a scavenger hunt at the end of which they were each awarded a small prize. It was a very nice, relaxing way to spend an hour.

it had a nice view but the bridge was a little out of shape

Great tour. Beautiful piece of history. Definitely a must on your trip to OBX

The whole area around this place is interesting too! Went to see the lighthouse and got to see this too!

Staff was exceptional! Skillful succinct answers that made this fascinating history even better.

Currently closed due to the pandemic, but you surely should visit once it reopens. Amazing even today, so hard to believe it was completed in 1925! Incredible. Great history here.

Beautiful spot, love the grounds and climbing the Lighthouse was such a fun experience!!

Cool place. Tie it in with a visit to Currituck Lighthouse and a trip up to Hwy 12 on the beach to see the horses.

Best living history historical mansion I've ever toured. Loved it.

Such a beautiful building. Wish my house could look like it.

I loved it ! I am so glad I visited it, so pretty and well layed out on tour !

Great place to stretch your legs. Didn't go inside anything, however, completely enjoyed walking the grounds.

Absolutely gorgeous facility. Perfect scenery for photos.

Very scenic place, you can walk out on the dock and watch the sun go down.

Beautiful landscape and amazing place to watch the sunset.

Great historical place in Corolla, NC. Next to the lighthouse and boat launch.

The guided audio tour is very nice and complete. The house is beautiful and the people working there are very friendly. They were beginning to decorate for Christmas the day we were there and I bet it will be a sight to see when they are finished.

Nicely manicured. Cool trees. Wish we had crabbing supplies, next year!

Thus place is absolutely beautifil. There's history here that I was unfamiliar of where the family purchased the island decades before there was a main road and boats came to the island.

Watching the sunset there was astonishing.
This club and park is close to the light house. There is a really neat bridge that you can cross and the trees in the park are phenomenal. They kind of look like olive trees in the way they grew, but they are oak trees is what I was told.

It's funny because I've never seen oak trees grow like that, but some say it was because of hurricanes, but I have no way to prove or disprove that.

Was a great place to visit. Self guided and very informative.

Interesting place to visit. Go to the nearby museum first to get a better idea of why this was built.

Awesome place my wife and I really enjoyed our visit

I don't know how many times we passed up visiting Whalehead when we we're in Corolla/OBX. It was a very interesting tour, a good way to spend a couple hours touring the building and the surrounding estate/park.

The staff running the tour have taken good precautions with Covid.

A bit of history on a wealthy family. Over 21,000 sq ft home from 1920s.

Excellent example of restored 1920's architecture. Staff is very friendly and very helpful

The mansion is a spectacular sight. The size is deceiving from the exterior. Wish we could have booked the ghost tour. The surrounding park is beautiful! Perfect for fishing, boating, kayaking, or kite flying.

Beautiful renovation! I'm glad they saved this place

Currently closed due to the pandemic, but you surely should visit once it reopens. Amazing even today, so hard to believe it was completed in 1925! Incredible. Great history here.

Great preservation and self guided tour with informative taped info and friendly staff

What a spectacular place to see! I thoroughly enjoyed my tour of the home and grounds so much, I went back for the hard-hat tour. The serenity of the home itself, as well as the nature around, made my trip! I would recommend taking a tour if you are staying in OBX.

Beautiful home. Great audio tour. Wonderful family.

This is an amazingly restored home. It went above expectations. The only complaint is that the self guided tour can be a little long if you listen to every station. They need a long version and an abbreviated version. A little additional tip if you are looking for a place to take family photos--the grounds on the bank of the sound make a great spot for sunset photos. It is worth the visit!

We did not explore the inside but this is a great place to snap some family photos at sunset! You can also explore the grounds, visit the lighthouse, and even crab. Definitely check it out when in Corolla.

Excellent tour! The renovation of the Whalehead Club was very thorough and detailed. Every room had beautiful furnishings and artifacts in them. There is no tour guide but an audio each room provides the explanation. Allow 45 minutes to an hour. No photographs allowed.

Beautiful site, gorgeous view, and wonderfully maintained building. Staff is highly knowledgeable and are great story tellers. We took the ghost tour, but wish we'd had time to go back during the day to tour the house properly. So glad to know this place is protected.

Did not go inside. Walked the grounds. Very cool place to visit while in town.

Really nice park, has plenty of parking, picnic areas, and beautiful scenery. Perfect place to see the sunset in Corolla!

A beautiful piece of history well worth taking in while in this area. A time we'll preserved of life when life was much more simple.

Great preservation and self guided tour with informative taped info and friendly staff

Terrific place to visit. Crabbing and fishing, scenic venues, an all around great experience.

Nice quiet park. Walk around enjoy views of the lighthouse and the sound. Bring lunch and relax

Well constructed old hunting club built in 1922. Unable to tour, maybe out of season.

Beautiful historic home. Would have loved to tour the inside but at $10 per person, our family of 8 decided to spend that amount elsewhere.

A good place to go crabbing or walk around and have a picnic or just chill for the day!

Awesome spot. We caught blue crabs from the rocks on the shore. Great time.

Lovely old home and amazing views of the Currituck Sound. If you love art deco styles then you'll love this house. Really beautiful examples lovingly restored to its original glory

We wanted to know about the tour and exactly what we get in it, and we asked the tour guide information he said we do tours. And that was it. No information at all.

Really pretty park with some interesting history behind it. Definitely a recommended stop on your vacation in the OBX

Really nice house to tour from a family that helped out the community

We love to go there. Its a peaceful place for me. I love going there enjoying walking around. It's a gem for us.

Stunning and postcard picturesque! The grounds are well kept, it is as if you're walking back in time to a beachy bygone era.

Nice scenic walk. Learn historical facts about the area and conservation efforts.