Sunday, June 07, 2009

The Unsinkable Molly Brown - March 2009


Molly Brown House
also known as House of Lions
1340 Pennsylvania St.Denver, Colorado
Margaret Brown became known as the Unsinkable Molly Brown because she survived the sinking of the RMS Titanic. She was not called Molly during her life - her friends called her Maggie. She was born in Hannibal, Missouri, and at age 18, moved to Leadville, Colorado where she worked in a department store.
She met her husband in Leadville, and although she had intentions of marrying a rich man, she married JJ, a poor man, for love. Later, JJ was paid 12,500 shares of stock and a seat on the board for his engineering design at a mining company. This made them a rich couple. They separated after 23 years of marriage, but remained connected the rest of their lives.
Molly was a women's rights activist and a philanthropist and one of the first students to enroll at the Carnegie Institute in New York.

The Brown's 1889 home was built by the architect, Willam Lang. We were there on Sunday, and the house wasn't open, but we looked at the outside and then walked around the neighborhood of the historic Hilltop neighborhood.



















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