Famous for its cast-iron façade depicting the four seasons, the Richards-Dar House Museum is one of Mobile’s finest examples of Italianate style architecture and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Built in 1860 by famous steamboat Captain Charles G. Richards, the beautifully preserved house echoes a time gone by, telling the story of Mobile during the height of the antebellum age. The house, which now serves as a public museum, features a grandiose reception hall with spectacular brass and bronze chandeliers, immense parlors with marble mantels and silver staff bells, and one of the largest crystal chandeliers in the city.

The house not only attracts visitors to admire its striking architecture and beautiful interiors, but also to test the rumors of the site’s haunting by a a ghostly figure that appears in an upstairs bedroom window accompanied by the singing of childlike voices.

256 N. Joachim St., Mobile, Alabama 36603, Phone: 251-208-7320

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