Museum
Villa Louis Historic Site
21 locals recommend
Location
521 N Villa Louis Rd
Prairie du Chien, WI
Tips from locals
Historic home that depicts life in early America. Costumed interpreters lead tours of the grand mansion, one of the most authentically furnished Victorian houses in America.
Take a step back in time to the Victorian age with a visit to the Villa Louis Mansion in Prairie du Chien, WI. Hercules Louis Dousman (1800 – 1868) acquired a large fortune through his various enterprises as a fur trader, lumberman, land speculator and frontier entrepreneur. In the mid-1840s the Dousman family began developing an estate on the banks of the Mississippi River at Prairie du Chien that would evolve into Villa Louis.
Take a step back in time to the Victorian age with a visit to the Villa Louis Mansion in Prairie du Chien, WI. Hercules Louis Dousman (1800 – 1868) acquired a large fortune through his various enterprises as a fur trader, lumberman, land speculator and frontier entrepreneur. In the mid-1840s the Dou…