The mansion is like a time capsule. Most of the home’s furnishings were purchased at the 1904 St Louis World’s Fair. The furnishings cost more than the $55,000 that was spent building the 11,000 square feet home.
Dr. Seelye’s daughters, Helen and Marion, were little girls when the home was built. They never married and lived in the home into their 90s – leaving almost everything right where their mother had placed it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered ice to the Seelye Mansion when he was a young boy. The Seelye sisters recounted stories of Ike as a man from the “other side of the tracks”.
The home was featured on the History Channel’s “Mysteries at the Mansion”.