Museum Display Guide
Floor Plan with 
8 examples

Visitor Information
Hours, Admission Fees and Location with map

Door Prairie Barn
located adjacent to the Museum

Tours & Groups
w/1999 Continental Tour photos & 
LaPorte Links

Revised and Updated

Gift Shop

located in LaPorte, Indiana
just south of beautiful Lake Michigan
about 60 miles southeast of Chicago

Open April 1st thru December 23rd the Door Prairie Auto Museum depicts many domestic and international influences that have affected the American love for the open road.

The collection covers 100 years - beginning with an example of the world's first car, an 1886 Benz Motor Wagon. There are also Auburn, Bricklin, Citroen, Daimler, Duesenberg, Duryea, Ford, Mercedes, Mitchell, Rolls Royce, Studebaker, Tucker, Winton and many others. Your visit will provide an opportunity to re-live the exciting development of the automobile from the very first car up to the present.

Also featured is a recreation of a block on old Main Street in LaPorte showing business store fronts of three different eras.

Some  additions for 1999 include:

There is also a collection of Scholl Dairy memorabilia including ice cream molds, dippers and a stanchion used by the late Dr. Scholl (of foot fame), when as a boy he milked cows on a farm near LaPorte.

The Kesling Room now has on display the aircraft Dr. Peter Kesling crashed while on a flight to St. Louis in the 1960's.

Some er additions include:
1896 Chanute Glider
1902 Toledo Steam Carriage
1923 Dodge Roadster
1930 L-29 Cord Phaeton
1940 Ford Woody Station Wagon
1950 Austin Convertible