Reservations for the 14th Folly Ball are going fast, and the deadline to ensure your seat is soon approaching.

The event will raise money for the Riddick’s Folly House Museum, which is located on North Main Street.

“This is our biggest fundraiser,” said Lee King, the curator of the museum.

Dubbed “Folly at the Point,” the event will be held April 13 from 7 to 11:30 p.m. at Cedar Point Country Club. Tickets are $60 each.

The money will go toward education, restoration, preservation and operation of Riddick’s Folly.

“We’re very proud of what we have here,” said board vice president Jane O’Connor Smith. “We want to share it with the community. That’s our purpose.”

Music at the ball will be provided by The Main Event band.

Guests can purchase raffle tickets for a 14-karat antique reproduction white gold and diamond ring by Gabriel and Co. It is set with a half-karat of round, brilliant-cut diamonds and has a retail value of $1,800. Raffle tickets are $5 each or five for $20.

Dinner will include prime rib, hors d’oeuvres such as hot crab dip and shrimp cocktail and assorted mini cakes and cheesecakes for dessert.

This is the first Folly Ball since the 2009 event, which had an Egyptian theme.

In addition to tickets, business sponsorships still are available, but the deadline is Saturday.

To purchase tickets or discuss a sponsorship for the event, call 934-0822.

Riddick’s Folly was built in 1837 by Mills Riddick, who owned several plantations surrounding the town of Suffolk as well as stakes in the Albemarle Land Company and Dismal Swamp Land Company.

After a fire swept through Suffolk and burned several of his buildings, the $5,600 insurance settlement financed the construction of his new home, which was dubbed “Riddick’s Folly” by others in town because of its immense size.

He and his wife, Mary Taylor Riddick, had 10 children who lived to adulthood. He died in 1844, she moved into a smaller home nearby. The home fell to her children in equal shares, until one of the youngest children, Nathaniel Riddick, purchased his siblings’ shares and moved in with his wife, Missouri. He was a lawyer and used the home for his practice until it outgrew it and he build a separate office on the property.

Nathaniel Riddick would go on to serve in the Virginia House of Delegates and as a judge. The Union Army used the house as a headquarters during its occupation of Suffolk during the Civil War. Riddick died in 1882.

For more information on Riddick’s Folly, visit www.riddicksfolly.org.