Entry No. 38 — the Coeur d'Alene file — filed under: offbeat-museum

Shoshone County Mining & Smelting Museum (Staff House Museum)

Housed in the 1906 mansion built for Stanley Easton, general manager of the Bunker Hill & Sullivan mine, this three-floor museum packs more than a dozen exhibits mixing hard-rock mining and smelting artifacts with the domestic life of an early-20th-century company-town manager. It's a quirky historic-house museum where ore-processing gear sits a room away from period parlors.

The move: Tour the old manager's mansion floor by floor, then walk Kellogg's quirky 'Smelterville'-era downtown and find the gondola base for a view over the Silver Valley.

📍 Before you go About 36 miles east in Kellogg; seasonal hours, so confirm it's open (call 208-786-4141) before the drive.

• 📍 Kellogg
• 💸 $
• ⚡ Up for anything
• 🌗 Indoors

Where: 820 McKinley Ave, Kellogg, ID 83837

Hours: Added 2026-06-24 — confirm current hours before you go.

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last checked: 2026-06-24