The Ingersoll birthplace was built in three sections, two of which were moved to its current site. Her unmarked grave site was located in December 2015 and a period-appropriate gravestone was dedicated on Memorial Day 2016. Robert Ingersoll’s mother, Mary Livingston Ingersoll, died on December 2, 1835, in Cazenovia, New York, when Robert was three years old. It is a co-anchor of the Freethought Trail.Īn interactive online Chronology indexing more than 2500 events in Ingersoll's life, including most of his public lectures, is available here. The Museum is open weekends each summer and fall. In 2016, Jeff Ingersoll added a new, historically accurate front porch on the main (two-story) wing of the birthplace.įurther Information. Scruggs Museum Interior was designed by The Exhibition Alliance of Hamilton, New York, working with museum director Tom Flynn and volunteer construction manager Jeff Ingersoll. In 2014 the Museum interior was completely redesigned and updated.
After raising and spending more than $250,000, the Council rehabilitated the birthplace and in 1993 opened it as a museum.Ĭurrent Redesigns. The structure was near collapse when it was purchased in 1986 by the Council for Secular Humanism. It was restored in 1954 by atheist activist Joseph Lewis and operated as a museum until the mid-1960s. It operated as a community center but closed for lack of funds in 1927. It was first restored in 1921 by a blue-ribbon committee whose members included Thomas Edison, Edgar Lee Masters, and Syracuse suffragist Harriet May Mills. The house has been restored on three occasions. It would be his only visit to the county of his birth. The next day he delivered a free lecture at the Yates County Fair in nearby Penn Yan. Ingersoll visited this site on September 24, 1889, accompanied by his wife Eva and his daughters Maud and Eva.
Exhibits include an orientation video, a rich collection of Ingersoll memorabilia and literature, a period restoration of the room in which Ingersoll was born, and a local history room. Though his family left Dresden when Robert was only four months old, this house remains the only one of Ingersoll’s many residences still standing and open to the public. Agnostic orator Robert Green Ingersoll was born in this house on August 11, 1833.
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