Carroll Mansion

This elegant Victorian mansion is a museum now, but over the years, it was a place that several Kansas families called home. The 16-room Carroll Mansion, with its intricate handcrafted woodwork, stained glass windows and gas lighting, started out as a much smaller wood-framed house when it was built in 1867. It was Lucien Scott, the property’s third owner, who enlarged and renovated the structure. Scott, president of the First National Bank of Leavenworth and vice president of the Kansas Central Railroad, and his wife, Julia, did a great deal of lavish entertaining and turned their mansion into one of the city’s most prominent social gathering spots during the 1880s. The Carroll family was the last to own the mansion, living there for nearly eight decades before donating the home to the Leavenworth County Historical Society in 1964. Be sure to swing by the gift shop, specializing in Victorian cards and specialty items.