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.
Richards DAR House Museum reviews
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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 »
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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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A group of us visited the Richards House for the Christmas Open House, and were delighted. Interesting local history; beautifully decorated; tours given by very poised young women [high school...
A group of us visited the Richards House for the Christmas Open House, and were delighted. Interesting local history; beautifully decorated; tours given by very poised young women [high school... 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.
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A lovely place to learn about life in the 1800's
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Best tour in Mobile! The tour guide was wonderful! She took her time and even allowed questions. She was very informative!
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My wife and I were married in this house 35 years ago. The DAR house looked better than it did 35 years ogo. There has been more restoration work and it was beautiful. The ladies of DAR do a great job of saving this historic site. Thank you ladies.
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2021 Christmas celebration "Reflections of the Nutcracker Ballet" decorations are beautiful.
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