Alwin Carus
Last family resident of the Hegeler-Carus Mansion
Portrait forthcoming
Lived alone in the fifty-seven-room mansion until he was ninety-nine. Donated the building to the new Hegeler Carus Foundation in 1995 with two conditions: nothing could be sold to fund the upkeep, and he got to keep living there. He'd mosey downstairs to chat with tour visitors. Died at one hundred and two.
Hegeler Carus Mansion. Her husband Paul Carus ran Open Court Publishing from the first floor for thirty-two years and brought D.T.
Civic · Religion · LaSalle · 1850–1900
Hegeler Carus Mansion
Where Zen Buddhism arrived in America
1307 Seventh Street, LaSalle, IL