Beall Mansion Historic Tours
407 E. 12th St., Alton, IL 62002
History Museums
Take an exquisitely elegant tour of an early 20th-century mansion full of ornate rooms featuring antique furnishings
Tour the mansion built as a wedding present by railroad baron and riverboat magnate Z.B. Job for his son and bride Mary Drummond, heiress to the Drummond tobacco fortune. Today this three-story mansion serves as a bed and breakfast.
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