Molly Brown Summer House

Built in 1887, Molly Brown House is a home of character with a great history and earned popularity. The wealth that Maggie dreamed of arrived in 1893 when the Ibex Co., in which J.J. owned substantial shares, struck gold in Leadville`s Little Jonny Mine. Besides the history that the tour guide shares, there is a plethora of information about Margaret Brown's life sold in the Visitor Center.

In fact, she never went by Molly” during her lifetime. People think these mining towns are isolated, but they actually had a relatively sophisticated cultural life,” Iversen explains. Which raised money to save Molly Brown's House. The Molly Brown Birthplace and Museum is located in Hannibal, Missouri at the intersection of Mark Twain Avenue and Denkler's Alley.

After Brown's death in 1932, her former Denver home became a boarding house for young men and women looking to start new lives in the American West—but by 1970, the home was scheduled for demolition. Owner description: This antique-filled Victorian house was the home of Molly Brown, not only a famous survivor of the Titanic, but so much more.

Our guide told us about the house, the Victorian era, the family, the Titanic,and the legend, Margaret (Molly) Brown. The attention "Titanic" is generating has translated into big business for the Molly Brown House. After Brown's death in 1932, the home went through incarnations as rental property, a gentleman's boarding house and a home for wayward girls.

When her admirers say that Margaret Molly” Brown was almost larger than life, they draw their conclusions and inspiration from her dancing, singing, yodeling, playing the zither and the guitar, and the fact that she was an activist who believed in equal rights.

So many wonderful tid-bits about Margaret Brown were offered during the tour. Only recently have they agreed to cooperate with the efforts of a historian, Kristen Iversen, and allowed access to letters, scrapbooks, photographs, and many personal effects of Margaret Tobin Brown that had previously been unavailable.

Molly (Margaret) Brown was a famous survivor of Titanic; she was a socialite and philanthropist and was a first class passenger on the Titanic. In 1891, Brown purchased stock in a Denver Colorado mining company that soon struck gold and he suddenly became very rich. In the nineteen sixty-four movie "The Unsinkable Molly Brown" she was played by Debbie Reynolds.