On The Ground Floor
 |
Kitchen with a cast iron stove
and many kitchen instruments used before electricity, such as
a churn, sadirons, and carpet beaters. |
| |
|
 |
Laundry room with Hubingers Elastic
Starch and the worlds largest overalls. |
| |
|
 |
Display of turn of the century medical instruments. |
| |
|
 |
Dentists suite complete with a foot
powered drill. |
| |
|
 |
Family dining room, now used as a well-stocked
salesroom. |
On The Main Floor
 |
Carved rotunda entrance. |
| |
|
 |
Grand hallway graced by portraits of Chief
Keokuk and Justice Samuel Freeman Miller, plus a lithograph of
the City of Keokuk in 1857. |
| |
|
 |
Front Parlor honoring the founders of the
Medical College and the Civil War Generals from Keokuk. |
| |
|
 |
Back parlor where the family and friends
could entertain themselves with the square grand piano, pump organ,
stereopticon and photograph albums. Both parlors have recently
been renovated and decorated. |
| |
|
| And Upstairs
|
| |
|
 |
Bedroom containing Renaissance Victorian
furniture with knitted bedspread and coverlets, plus a "Gone
with the Wind" lamp. |
| |
|
 |
Art Nouveau bedroom, the age of starched
collars, curled hair, and hats and flowers. |
| |
|
 |
Lawyers study honoring Miller, his
partners, and local judges who served in Keokuks Federal
Courtroom. The room is furnished with a revolving bookcase and
a root chair. |
| |
|
 |
Nursery with dolls and carriages, a rocking
horse, a fully furnished doll house, and Schoenhut piano. |
| |
|
 |
A hall gallery of scenes of the taming of
the Mississippi with a canal, and later with a mile long dam and
hydroelectric plant. |
| |
|
 |
A case of Indian artifacts also contains
Chief Keokuks musket. |
The home is now on the National Register
of Historic Places. It is open Friday through Sunday, 1:00-4:00
P.M., Memorial Day Weekend to Labor Day Weekend. For a special appointment
or tour call Keokuk Convention and Tourism Bureau at (319) 524-5599.
Admission is one dollar for adults, and fifty cents for children. |