Molly Brown House Museum

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• Locations & Hours
• Harvard students start their own tent city

In recent years, the porch in front of the house needed to be entirely refurbished as Denver’s weather and over a hundred years’ worth of visitors took their toll. According to Malcomb, the museum has spent over a million dollars over the past few years to clean, restore and maintain the house’s stately appearance. That includes everything from roof repair to polishing the custom stained glass windows. In the 1960s and 1970s, as part of so-called urban renewal efforts, hundreds of historic properties in Denver were demolished. Historic Denver was born out of an extraordinary effort by preservation-minded Denverites to save the 1889 home of Titanic survivor Margaret “Molly” Brown from the same fate.

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Founded in 1970, Historic Denver believes Denver’s historic assets are part of its cultural fabric and essential to a diverse, dynamic, and distinctive city — and that everyone should see themselves in the story of their city through its places. The Molly Brown House Museum’s art collection consists of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century art including paintings, lithographs, sculptures, and more. The art collection helps to illustrate the Browns’ extensive travels to Europe and Asia, and it highlights not only the Browns’ personal taste, but the different artistic styles in Denver and abroad at the time. The real Margaret Brown was a powerful, no-nonsense woman who fought for the rights of her gender and those who couldn’t fight for themselves. She donated money, time, and effort into helping those in need and by the end of her life, had forever sealed her place in history as being the Titanic heroine and an all-around incredible woman. After striking the iceberg that would lead the ship’s demise, Margaret stayed aboard the doomed vessel and helped others into the lifeboats rather than trying to secure herself a spot on one of the boats first.

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Learn about her family and the integral roles they played in her life, most especially that of husband J.J. Mother, wife, philanthropist, suffragist, actress–Margaret Brown’s story is so much bigger than anything you’ve seen in the movies. ∎ In the Boston area, encampments have been erected at multiple schools including Tufts University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Emerson College. Simpson gave up his Brentwood estate and moved to Florida, where, under state law, his home could not be seized by creditors. He received pensions, including from the NFL and the Screen Actors Guild, which were protected from seizure under federal law.

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“People always say, ‘You could do it on your own, you have such great taste,’ and I do! Mama never met a couch she didn't like.” But that doesn't mean Sims, who just gave birth to her third child with producer husband Scott Stuber in January, was ready to fly solo when decorating the family’s newly constructed house in Pacific Palisades. She enlisted the help of interior designer Dan Scotti, the founder of Dan Scotti Design, whom she had worked with on a loft in New York City and her house in the Hamptons. “I spend a lot of my time in that chair with my dogs—some people call it the peacock chair, some people call it the clam chair,” says Miley of her beloved perch (actually an Anemone chair by Giancarlo Zema for Giovanetti). Before you get judgy and start thinking that this is just some soulless corporate promotion, you know that the decor is more than just Rams chic. Denver’s beloved Molly Brown House Museum — Historic Denver’s flagship property for over 50 years — showcases the legacy of Margaret “Molly” Brown, who held a lifelong belief in equal rights for all.

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Historic Denver’s Molly Brown House Museum is committed to enhancing the city’s unique identity by telling the story of Margaret “Molly” Brown’s activism, philanthropy and passion through educational programs, exhibits and stewardship. By exploring the dynamic between past and present, we shape a stronger community for the future and inspire engaged citizens. The Molly Brown House Museum is the premier place to explore Denver's history. Explore on your own, or interact with knowledgeable docents who share the Progressive Era changes Margaret and mining engineer husband J.J. From the front porch of the home, see the State Capitol's gold dome and the spires of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception to connect the economic activities of mining to Denver's built environment and civic gathering places. Once inside, make connections between how families lived 100 years ago compared to today.

The museum’s collections include furniture, clothing, accessories, artwork, and more from the life and times of Mrs. Brown. For more information on the museum’s collections, please visit our Collections Page. As more and more historic properties were demolished in the 1960s, a group of preservation-minded Denver citizens joined efforts in 1970 to rescue the home of Titanic survivor Margaret Tobin Brown. The group incorporated as Historic Denver, Inc. and began major restoration efforts in order to return the home’s interior and exterior to its early 20th century grandeur. Guided tours of the Museum reach an average of 45,000 visitors a year, sharing the story of Margaret “Molly” Brown and Denver history.

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The museum’s Furniture Collection consists of antique sofas, dressers, bed frames, kitchen appliances, and more that date from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Each piece of furniture aids visitors in learning about the life and times of the unsinkable Margaret “Molly” Brown who lived in this home at 1340 Pennsylvania Street. Following her death, a novelist by the name of Caroline Bancroft wrote “The Unsinkable Mrs. Brown” which was a partially fictional, romanticized version of Brown’s life that overtime was treated as a biography. This was also where the term “Unsinkable Molly Brown” originated (Margaret was never actually referred to as “Molly” in life and the title did not arise until after her passing). Tensions between striking miners and CF&I came to a head on April 20th when a battle broke out between the miners and private guards hired by the company. Twenty people were killed in the struggle, including several women and children.

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And fifty years after her mother got involved to save the house, tour guide Mahonchak is still sharing the legacies of Margaret Brown and her mother’s work with visitors. Mahonchak started giving tours of the house when she was a teenager in those early days. The house was open to the public for a few weekends in April 1971, but the demand was great enough to stretch their visiting hours through the summer. The Brown House, a two-and-one-half-story stone structure, was originally started in 1887 by George W. Clayton or Isaac N. Large. Its importance is tied to the "rags to riches" elements in early Colorado history and one of Colorado’s most colorful women. Though widely publicized as the "Unsinkable" Mrs. Brown for her heroic demeanor as a survivor of the Titanic sinking in 1912, the popular 1960s Broadway musical first gave Margaret her now famous nickname, the "Unsinkable Molly Brown."

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The bill also supplies $9 billion for humanitarian aid, some of it for Palestinians in Gaza, but that's a little over half the amount assigned for military aid to Israel. Such funding has been a driving force for the encampments and other protests at universities and elsewhere in the U.S. She most recently covered Orange County for The Times and has written extensively about criminal trials, housing, politics and government. In 2020, Fry was part of the team that was a Pulitzer finalist for its coverage of a boat fire that killed 34 people off the coast of Santa Barbara.

Although the ship’s Captain and crew received numerous warnings of ice in the area during their passage, the Titanic charged ahead. Now more independent than ever, Margaret departed on a trip to Egypt, Rome and Paris with her daughter Helen, and friends J.J. However, news of her ill grandson hastened Margaret’s return, and she booked passage on the first available ship, the Titanic. While the trip appeared to bridge the distance between the pair for some years, in 1909, after 23 years of marriage, the Browns quietly signed a separation agreement. According to the agreement, Margaret received a cash settlement and maintained possession of the house on Pennsylvania Street. She also received $700 a month allowing her to continue her travels and philanthropic activities.