Museum
Neill-Cochran House Museum
Greek Revival limestone mansion once a Civil War quarantine hospital, with intact slave quarters.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to the Neill-Cochran House Museum in Austin follows the house's turn, in the last weeks of the Civil War, from a private mansion into a federal quarantine hospital under Colonel George Custer. You'll hear how soldiers fighting yellow fever and cholera left marks their nurses never meant to leave behind, and how a schoolhouse for blind children once stood on the very same ground. It traces the decades-long gap between what nineteenth-century medicine could do and what it actually understood.
This audio guide was created using AI.