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Reitz Home Museum

About Reitz Home Museum

The Reitz Home Museum is a Victorian house museum located in the Riverside Historic District in downtown Evansville, Indiana. The museum offers year-round guided tours.

An authentic restoration offers visitors a step back in time with silk damask-covered walls, hand painted ceilings, delicately molded plaster friezes, and intricately patterned hand-laid wood parquet floors. Other features of the home include tiled and marbled fireplaces, stained glass windows, and French gilt chandeliers. Much of the home is decorated with original period furniture.

Considered by many to be one of the finest examples of the French Second Empire style architecture, the home has been featured in several issues of Victorian Homes magazine as well as Victorian Decorating and Lifestyle magazine.

In 2003 the home received a commendation from the Victorian Society in America for the preservation and restoration of the Victorian mansion.

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Photos of Reitz Home Museum

  1. Reitz Home Museum, Indiana01IndianaNyttend · Public domain
  2. John Augustus Reitz House, southern side02John Augustus Reitz House, southern sideNyttend · Public domain
  3. John Augustus Reitz House, front in summer03John Augustus Reitz House, front in summerNyttend · Public domain
  4. Reitz-saw04Reitz-sawWillard Collection · Public domain

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Make a day of it. 4 more museums are within a mile of Reitz Home Museum; the closest, Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science, is practically next door.