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Richards DAR House Museum, Mobile

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Historic Site · Hidden Gem · Specialty Museum
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Admission: Adults $10.00 Children $5.00

Group rates also available. Please call for a quote.

Rental Fees

Three hour event(reception)- $1,000

Four hour event or wedding(wedding and reception) - $1200

The house also has reception tables and chairs for rent.

One of Mobile's finest examples of the Italianate style. Famous for its cast-iron facade depicting the four seasons. National Register (1860). Lavish iron lace decorates the Richards – Daughters of the American Revolution House Museum. This beautiful Town House of the Italianate style tells the story of Mobile during its antebellum period. Steamboat Captain Charles G. Richards and his wife, Caroline Elizabeth Steele, built their dream house in 1860.

The Ideal Cement Company purchased the house from Richards’ descendants in 1946. After being turned over to the city of Mobile in 1973, the five Mobile Chapters of the Daughters of the American Revolution leased the home. The organization is responsible for furnishing and administering it as a Period House Museum.

The house museum is magnificently decorated with carved Carrara marble mantels, double parlors and reception hall with massive brass and bronze chandeliers designed of fanciful mythological figures, holding aloft etched and crenelated glass globes. Panes of ruby Bohemian glass frame the doorway, silver bell pulls for calling servants are in each room and the front gallery floor is made of gray and white marble squares. In the Richards – DAR House Museum hangs one of the largest crystal chandeliers in the city, reflecting in a French mirror over the mantel. The furnishings of this house museum date back prior to 1870.

This beautiful gallery has been listed in the National Register of Historic Places. We invite you to tour the house and have a cup of tea and cookies, which are served to all guests. To visit Richards DAR House Museum and other attractions in Mobile, use our Mobile route builder website.
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  • I really enjoyed my visit to the Richards DAR Mansion in Mobile. I was made very welcome and the tour was interesting and very informative. It was a treat to be invited to have tea and biscuits with.....  more
    I really enjoyed my visit to the Richards DAR Mansion in Mobile. I was made very welcome and the tour was interesting and very informative. It was a treat to be invited to have tea and biscuits with.....  more »
  • The house is a labor of love for Mobilians, and their generosity allows us visitors to enjoy it. The house was gifted to the city for preservation, run, and maintained by the Daughters of the... 
    The house is a labor of love for Mobilians, and their generosity allows us visitors to enjoy it. The house was gifted to the city for preservation, run, and maintained by the Daughters of the...  more »
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  • 10$ per adult. Cool guides. Fascinating history of local captain Ruchards and his family. The place has a nice garden for weddings. Nice place to take teens, too.
  • A lovely place to learn about life in the 1800's

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