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| The house was named for William Curry, a penniless Bahamian immigrant who made his fortune reputedly as a salvager -those scurrilous fellows who preyed on shipwrecked travelers in Florida's pirate-infested waters.- Curry attained status as Key West's first millionaire and began building the Mansion in 1869. |  Click the image above or here to begin the Curry Mansion Tour. | The architectural details are common to wreckers, incorporating elements of many ports-of-call: the widow's walk of New England, the ornate trellises and balustrades of New Orleans and the columns and colonnades of the Deep South. Curry's son Milton completed the Mansion in 1899, furnishing it with the 18th-century antiques and Victorian pieces gracing the parlor today. |
Key Lime Pie was first created in the Curry Mansion kitchen by Aunt Sally.
Today the home of innkeeper, Edith Amsterdam, the Mansion is also an intriguing museum listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Curry Mansion Inn...where the elegance of Key West's past is equaled only by the elegance of it's present.
Phone: 1-800-253-3466 / 305-294-5349 Fax: 305-294-4093
Curry Mansion Inn
511 Caroline Street Key West, FL 33040