Wrecker's Museum-Oldest House in Key West, Florida is a beautiful place to visit when you are in the Keys. It was a privately owned home up until 1969 after which time it became a house museum. The house was original located at Carolina and Whitehead Streets until it was moved in 1832 to where it is now. Mules and rollers moved the house and it was eventually donated to the state of Florida in 1974.
You will find the house has some of the original furnishings along with a dollhouse and some other toys on the upper level. It has an old beehive freestanding cookhouse, which is also the oldest in the area. Te house is a true vision that a Captain who was a harbor pilot lived here as it had a hatch in the bedroom ceiling to let some air into the room.
The house has many maritime features in the design of the home that was build by Richard Cussans in 1829. If you are looking for fascinating architecture as well as history, this is a house you will want to visit. The house is open daily for tours of the house and grounds. You can buy a ticket to see the Wrecker's Museum-Oldest House and the Heritage House, which is one block over.
To look at the outside of the house, you would think it is a normal looking house, but once you enter the home, you will see the fascinating designs and the furnishing that were customary of the year when the house was lived in by the Watlingtom family.
