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This museum, set in a late 19th century historic mansion offers extraordinary collections of opulent Victorian fixtures and furnishings, beautiful historic textiles and clothing, memorabilia from early Laramie and ranch history, and a one room school house.
The Ivinson Mansion, now the Laramie Plains Museum, was built in 1892 in Laramie, Wyoming by Jane and Edward Ivinson. Designed by architect Walter E. Ware of Salt Lake City and built by local contractor Frank Cook, the house was regarded as the most significant residence in Laramie at its completion. [2] Edward Ivinson gave the mansion to the ...
History of the Museum. The Laramie Plains Museum legacy began in 1898 when the Laramie Women’s Club began saving treasures they believed would be important mementos of the area’s history. Wyoming had just been a state for eight years when, led by Mary Godat Bellamy— the first woman representative to a government legislature in Wyoming ...
Mission of the Laramie Plains Museum. The Laramie Plains Museum is an historic house museum complex, of the City of Laramie, Wyoming and the surrounding area, whose mission is to preserve, restore, augment and exhibit its historic.
Laramie Plains Museum, Laramie, Wyoming. 1,871 likes · 9 talking about this · 57 were here. This museum set in a historic mansion offers extraordinary collections of opulent Victorian fixtures &...
Aug 16, 2015 · Laramie Plains Museum. 24 reviews. #12 of 41 things to do in Laramie. History Museums. Write a review. About. Housed in the Ivinson Mansion, this museum contains exhibits of pioneer life in Wyoming. Suggest edits to improve what we show. Improve this listing.
Laramie at the time was just a collection of tents and temporary buildings. As the railroad approached in May, Laramie became a true end-of-the-tracks town, replete with rowdies, thugs, shady women and a few reputable merchant and ranch families.
The museum offers guided tours of the thirty-room mansion. The rooms are filled with artifacts of life on a Western Plains town as it built up around the railroad. The mansion was built by Edward Ivinson in 1892. Ivinson arrived in Laramie in 1868 on the first train to Laramie.
Set on the property of the magnificent Ivinson Mansion, the Laramie Plains Museum is one of the region’s finest historic house museums.
The "Ivinson" name is part of the very history of the City of Laramie. The Museum offers guided tours of the Ivinson Mansion; this is the beautifully restored home and grounds built for Edward and Jane Ivinson. Truly a treasure!
