We are closed for the winter season. We reopen March 1st. The Visitor Center will continue to be available for your private events and for researchers by appointment.

The Visitor Center

is located directly behind the mansion. From First Street drive west on Augusta Avenue and then bear right onto Linden Place. Just ahead you will see the entrance drive to Ellwood House Museum.

Ellwood House Museum

509 North First Street, DeKalb, Illinois 60115  

Phone: (815)756-4609  



Ellwood House is located in a lovely park in the heart of DeKalb, Illinois. Inside, crystal chandeliers sparkle, gilt mirrors shine, and antique woodwork gleams. Built by barbed wire millionaire Isaac L. Ellwood in 1879, the mansion remains with its original furnishings just as when the Ellwood family lived there decades ago.

Experience a by-gone era as you tour the great English living room with its vast stone fireplace, the mahogany-paneled dining room, and the magnificent rotunda with a three-story spiral staircase. The many restored bedrooms, servants' rooms, and service areas provide a glimpse of a complete household at the turn of the twentieth century.