Editorial review from KidScore:
Best for school-aged kids, the Molly Brown House offers a tour of the three-story home of the Unsinkable Molly Brown. Kids who know the...
Built in 1889 of Colorado rhyolite (a type of volcanic rock) with sandstone trim, this was the residence of J. J. and Margaret Brown from 1894 to 1932. The “unsinkable” Molly Brown became a national heroine in 1912 when the Titanic sank. She took charge of a group of immigrant women in a lifeboat and later raised money for their benefit. (Interestingly, it was Broadway that nicknamed her...
The unsinkable Molly Brown may have been “new money” back when the Titanic sank, but it was money all the same, and it afforded her a beautiful Victorian home in Denver, open to the public as the Molly Brown House Museum. Restored to its late-19th-century/early-20th-century character, the home is filled with artifacts belonging to Molly as well as antiques and objects that Molly would have...
A little piece of Denver's history, unearthed in the Titanic.:
In Short
This three-story Victorian home in the Capitol Hill neighborhood used to be one of Denver's quaint little cultural secrets--the home where Molly Brown lived at the turn of the...