This chapter explores the relationship between Anne Lister and her home, Shibden Hall. Initially just a locally known, ’hidden gem’ of a council-funded visitor attraction with around fifteen thousand visitors a year, it is now internationally known as ’the Home of Anne Lister’, the lesbian icon and prolific diarist, traveller, mountaineer and businesswoman. Shibden Hall is now a ’literary house’, esteemed alongside the Brontë Parsonage at Haworth, for example, with which a joint conference, ’Interpreting Anne Lister and the Brontës’, was recently held. This new status could barely have been conceived of five years ago when I started as Collections Manager for Calderdale Museum Service, which manages Shibden Hall. In this chapter I will examine how Shibden Hall and its landscape defined Anne’s remarkable life and the imprint she has left on them in return, which can still be experienced today; bringing people closer to the ’real’ Anne alongside the extensive diaries and now-iconic, top-hatted ’Gentleman Jack’ character. I will also consider the challenges faced by a small museum service in delivering expectations, the difficulties in representing historic stories within a museum setting and the complexities involved in constructing the historical past.