Department 56 Rockwell's Christmas Eve

Nobody captures the essence of ‘The Good Old Days' quite like Norman Rockwell! Peek inside the front window where one of Rockwell's holiday favorites "Santa Looking at Two Sleeping Children" is portrayed in the window scene. Measures 8.25 in H     Department 56The company behind the villages. Over thirty years ago, Department 56 began as part of Bachman’s, a premiere retail florist in Minneapolis. Bachman’s used a numbering system to identify each of its departments. The number assigned to wholesale gift imports division was, you guessed it, 56. Now headquartered in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, Department 56 has become a leader in the giftware, collectibles and holiday decorating industry and is best known for our hand-crafted lighted villages, figurines and extensive lines of holiday and home decorative products. Their Story One Christmas evening, a group of friends set off to enjoy a dinner of celebration at a small country inn nestled in a quiet river town. As they rounded a bend