Tour an Historical Gem!
Listed on the National and State Register of Historic Places and Topeka Landmarks Register, the Charles Curtis House Museum is located at 1101 SW Topeka Blvd, Topeka, Kansas. Visitors have easy access to the Museum using Interstate 70 and taking Exit 361A for Topeka Blvd and going south, or by taking Exit 362A for 10th Street and going west to Topeka Blvd. The brick mansion sits on the corner of 10th & Topeka Blvd., SW of the Kansas capitol.
Learn about a Fascinating Statesman!
Topeka native, Charles Curtis, was a great-grandson of a Kanza Indian Chief. Curtis was born January 25, 1860 to Captain and Mrs. Oren Curtis. His mother was of Native American ancestry and when she died, when Charles was three years of age, Charles was raised by his mother's people on the Kaw Indian Reservation. Curtis served in the U. S. House of Representatives for sixteen years from 1893 to 1907. He was elected Senator in 1906 and served from 1907-1913, and again from 1915 to 1929. When Charles Curtis was selected by President Herbert Hoover to serve as his Vice President, Curtis became the first Native American to hold the office, the first Vice President to come from west of the Mississippi, and the first Vice President from the state of Kansas. The statesman was honored in 2001 when the state of Kansas built the Charles Curtis State Office Building. It is located at the corner of 10th Street and Jackson, southeast of the Kansas Capitol. Other sites of interest to visitors are the Charles Curtis Greenway on North Topeka Blvd. and the Curtis Burial Plot in Topeka Cemetery, also on 10th Street. To Read More: