posted 09-04-2011 07:57 PM               

Gus Grissom grew up on Baker Street – which would later be renamed Grissom Street in his honor — in downtown Mitchell, Indiana. In recent years, local community members have undertaken a restoration of Grissom's boyhood home.

posted 09-11-2014 12:20 AM               

Volunteers with Virgil I. Grissom Memorial Inc. have been opening up his family's small bungalow house in the Lawrence County town of Mitchell to visitors at least two Saturdays a month.

Group president Steve Grissom told The Times-Mail that members hope to make the house look as much as possible like it did when his cousin was growing up there.

Items already on display in the house include the bed from Gus's bedroom, a gun he bought while he was in high school and his father's chair. A shop manual with Grissom's name in the front was recently donated to the house.

"We have the basics, but it would be nice to have other pieces that were at one time in the home," Steve Grissom said.

posted 09-21-2014 11:28 AM               

We have been open most weekends and will be open at various times throughout the winter... Jan. 27, March 23, and will open full time again in May. We will also be decorating the home for our local parade of homes tour during Christmas. Our plan is to have it decorated as it would have been when Gus was a child.