The Molly Brown House Museum is the former home of Margaret "Molly" Brown, a Denver resident who survived the sinking of the Titanic. The house is preserved as it appeared in the early 1900s, when the Brown family lived there during Denver's Gilded Age, and it stands at 1340 Pennsylvania Street in the Capitol Hill area of the city. The museum is also known as the Margaret Brown House or the Unsinkable Molly Brown House.
What a visit offers
Visits take the form of guided tours, which move through the rooms of a Victorian home and place its furnishings and layout in the context of the household that once lived there. Because the house is kept close to its early-twentieth-century appearance, the tour is as much about everyday domestic life as it is about one famous resident. It suits visitors interested in historic houses, in the personal stories behind major events, or in how a growing western city lived at the turn of the last century.
Good to know before you go
- Format: guided tours through the historic house
- Address: 1340 Pennsylvania St, Denver, CO 80203
- Phone: +1-303-832-4092, worth calling ahead to confirm current tour times and arrangements
The house is an easy stop for anyone exploring Denver's historic neighbourhoods, and it pairs naturally with a walk around nearby Capitol Hill and the city's older residential streets, which reflect the same era the museum presents.
