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Reitz Home Museum

Reitz Home Museum, a museum in Indiana
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Reitz Home Museum, a museum in Indiana
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Reitz Home Museum, a museum in Indiana
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Reitz Home Museum, a museum in Indiana
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Reitz Home Museum, a museum in Indiana
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Reitz Home Museum, a museum in Indiana
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Reitz Home Museum is a museum in Indiana, at a modelled elevation of 116 m. Dyson Knob stands 197 m to the northeast, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Four Freedom's Monument, a attraction 0.1 miles away. Ohio River Scenic Byway runs past it. 16 named summits stand within 25 miles.

About

The story

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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Wikidata Q7310509, matched on coordinates and name (42 m apart).

Visiting

What to expect

Fee
Yes
Getting there

How to reach it

Driving directionsPlan a drive around it
Coordinates37.96784, -87.57204
Around it

Named places within 25 miles

Parks
  • 4th and Main Park: 0.3 mi
  • Sunset Park East: 0.4 mi
  • Sunset Park: 0.5 mi
  • Sunset Park: 0.5 mi
  • Sunrise Park: 0.5 mi
Artworks: 24
Peaks: 16
  • Mound F: 6.4 mi
  • Mound H: 6.4 mi
  • Mound E: 6.4 mi
  • Mound C: 6.5 mi
  • Mound A: 6.6 mi
Historic sites: 13
Museums: 11
Nature reserves: 7
Gardens: 5
Attractions: 4
  • Four Freedom's Monument: 0.1 mi
  • USS LST-325: 0.6 mi
  • Gilmore Haynie's Monkey Ship: 2.5 mi
  • Labrynth: 22.5 mi
Ghost towns: 1
Cliffs: 1
On the horizon

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Reitz Home Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Dyson KnobNE 42°197 m23.1 mi
Big Ditney HillNE 44°193 m16.0 mi
Wilson HillNNE 29°190 m24.2 mi
Kennedy HillNNE 25°189 m24.9 mi
Ringham HillNE 39°186 m22.1 mi
Moore HillNNE 27°178 m24.5 mi
Little Ditney HillNE 38°149 m12.2 mi
Lost HillNNE 30°132 m17.2 mi
Conditions

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox06:5518:2819:02
June solstice05:2919:3820:17
September equinox06:3918:1418:49
December solstice07:0315:5416:35

Local time (America/Chicago).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F353948606877807973624940
Precip in3.53.44.75.24.84.44.53.13.43.34.03.6

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Evansville Museum, under a mile away.

Sources

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap element way/1193702090

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