James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home

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O V E R V I E W

Facility:

Description:

James Whitcomb Riley was one of America's most popular poets when Indiana was the population center of America in the last half of the 1800s. Little Orphan Annie may be his best known poem. Riley's Indianapolis home in Lockerbie Square, where he lived at the height of his fame. Beautiful Italianate home contains many of his possessions from the time of his death. At Riley's death his bequest was used to start the Riley Hospital for Children, one of the top children's hospitals in the country.

A D D R E S S

Address 1:

528 Lockerbie Street

Address 2:

City:

Indianapolis

State/Province:

Zip Code:

46204

V I S I T I N G I N F O

Hours:

T-Sat 10-3:30; Sun 12-3:30; closed federal holidays and the first two weeks of January

Admission:

$3 adults, $2 seniors; 50 cents students 7-17; kids 6 and under free

Telephone:

(317) 631-5885

Website:

http://www.rileykids.org/about/riley_museum/

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