Driehaus Museum
Specialty Museum · Chicago, Illinois
The Samuel M. Nickerson House of 1883, built by a banker who had watched the city burn twelve years earlier and responded by constructing almost the entire interior in stone, marble and onyx — it was known as the Marble Palace. The financier Richard Driehaus bought it, spent years restoring it and opened it in 2008 as a museum of the Gilded Age, furnished with Tiffany glass and period decorative arts. It is the most complete surviving interior of its kind in Chicago.
40 East Erie Street, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
CLOSED MONDAY AND TUESDAY. Generally Wednesday to Sunday. Adults about $23; children 12 and under free. Self-guided, with private tours by reservation.