Molly Brown House Museum

The 1889 Denver Home Of Margaret Brown Titanic Survivor, Labour And Suffrage Activist, And Senate Candidate Before Women Could Vote Nationally. Saved From Demolition In 1970 By A Campaign That Founded Historic Denver In Order To Save It. · Denver, Colorado

Nobody called her Molly. Margaret Brown got that name from a Broadway musical in 1960, nearly thirty years after she died, and it stuck so hard that it is on the front of her own house. What she actually was is more interesting than the nickname: a woman from a poor Missouri family who married into Leadville silver money, ran for the United States Senate before American women could vote in federal elections, worked for miners' families and children's courts, and on the night the Titanic sank argued with the crew of lifeboat six until they went back to look for survivors. The house on Pennsylvania Street is an 1889 Queen Anne in stone that she bought in 1894, and it survived because a group of Denver residents formed a preservation society in 1970 specifically to stop it being pulled down. That group became Historic Denver, which has since saved a great deal more of the city, and the rooms inside were restored from the family's own photographs rather than furnished generically to period.

1340 Pennsylvania Street, Denver, Colorado, 80203, United States

Open most days year-round during daytime hours, usually closed one weekday and on major holidays. ACCESS IS BY GUIDED TOUR, which runs on a rolling schedule with limited group sizes - booking online is strongly advised at weekends and in summer, when tours sell out. Special seasonal programming includes Victorian holiday tours in December, which book earliest of all. There is no dedicated car park; parking is on the surrounding residential streets.

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