Located on a 80-acre campus, it offers classes in art education, drawing and painting, ceramics and stained glass, knitting and quilting, and hosts concerts and community events.

A significant personal art collection was the reason John and Eleanor Mitchell planned a museum in rural southern Illinois.

John had named the property after the Mitchell ancestral home in Corinth, Illinois, which his great-grandfather had previously used as a safe haven for slaves traveling north on the Underground Railroad.

The article showed two of their paintings, Mrs. T in Wine Silk by George Bellows and Captain Jack Kelly by Waldo Pierce.

Today, the Mitchell House is maintained by the museum's operations staff and is used for meetings, special events, and facility rentals.