Custer Home, Military residence museum at Fort Riley, Kansas, United States.
Custer Home is a limestone building at Fort Riley that displays eight rooms with furnished spaces from the 1870s and 1880s. The rooms include a parlor area, bedrooms, a kitchen, and spaces for household staff.
The building was constructed in 1855 and is one of the few remaining officers' quarters from the fort's founding period. It dates from the western expansion era, when the military post played a key role in frontier control.
The residence shows how military families lived during the Indian Wars period through period furnishings and household items on display. The rooms are arranged as they were then, giving visitors a sense of daily life for officers' families at the fort.
Visitors need to bring a valid photo identification to gain access to the site, as it is located within a military installation. It is best to check opening hours in advance, as access varies seasonally and on specific days.
Research in archives revealed that the General and his wife lived in separate quarters in 1866, not in this building as was long assumed. This discovery led to a reassessment of the building's historical significance.
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