Visiting The Unsinkable Molly Brown House

If you've ever wanted to move to Colorado, the time is perfect to start experiencing Denver. The Molly Brown Summer House features three event spaces made up of indoor and uncovered outdoor settings. And it wasn't until after her untimely death that she received the name Molly Brown. The connections between history and memory and the interdisciplinary approach to my research provided some useful insights into the life of Margaret Brown.

Brown worked to improve Leadville's schools and helped the mining families in the community in any way she could. If you have never heard of Molly Brown, you may know her better as The Unsinkable Molly Brown or even her birth name, Margaret Tobin Brown. A trained tour guide leads each group throughout the house, stopping at each room to point out important or interesting facts and share more information about Margaret's life.

Molly Brown's house can be found in the fashionable Capitol Hill area, on the corner of Pennsylvania Street and 13th Street. The house continued to deteriorate and by 1970 was set for demolition, but a group of concerned citizens formed Historic Denver, Inc., raising the funds for the house to be restored to its former glory.

Broadway, then later Hollywood, paid tribute to the Denver socialist with musical "The Unsinkable Molly Brown," which MGM made into a movie in 1964. She married mining engineer J.J. Brown, who developed a method of shoring up mine walls so that mines could be dug deeper, which led to the 1893 discovery of gold in the Little Johnny Mine.

Margaret was born in a small town in Missouri called Hannibal and spent her childhood in a house near the Mississippi River. The Brown family at first attempted to mitigate or correct the legend of "Molly," but eventually withdrew from the public and refused to speak with writers, reporters, or historians.

The Molly Brown Summer House features three event spaces made up of indoor and uncovered outdoor settings. And it wasn't until after her untimely death that she received the name Molly Brown. The connections between history and memory and the interdisciplinary approach to my research provided some useful insights into the life of Margaret Brown.

Her friends called her Maggie” during her Road Tour lifetime. That was how Maggie Brown and the Astors came to book their passage on the RMS Titanic. The Unsinkable Molly Brown Director: Charles Walters. In so doing, the memory, though filled with factual errors, helps to preserve historic buildings and the historic significance of Margaret Brown.