Author : James Bretz
Publisher : Pruett Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780871089373
In James Bretz's Mansions of Denver, the charm and history of Denver's architectural past is carefully and beautifully drawn. His book provides readers with insight into the city's youth. But it is also a lament - an homage to a time when architectural originality prevailed.
Author : Ann Alexander Leggett
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 32,10 MB
Release : 2011-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1625841108
Step into this nineteenth-century Colorado landmark and discover its paranormal history . . . Photos included! An ominous air hangs about Capitol Hill’s historic Croke-Patterson Mansion. Rumors of spirits and strange events have cast a shadow across its elegant Gilded Age facade. The lonely halls are haunted with stories of a doctor’s wife who committed suicide and the ghostly figure of a young woman who appears to visitors. Tenants of the building have also claimed to hear the cries of children, and dark specters in the basement prevent even the hardiest souls from staying for too long. In this fascinating book, authors Ann Alexander Leggett and Jordan Alexander Leggett explore the mysteries that have plagued this Denver mansion for over a century.
Author : Linda Wommack
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 12,10 MB
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 162585286X
The discovery of gold and silver in Colorado's Rocky Mountains minted millionaires by the ton. The rough settlements of miners and ranchers quickly transformed into habitations more suitable for the newly wealthy class. William Newton Byers founded the Centennial State's first newspaper and built an Italianate-style palace with the proceeds, while Walter Scott Cheesman's Capitol Hill home later became the governor's residence. Stroll into the parlors and drawing rooms of oligarchs like August A. Meyer, Lyman Robison and James Joseph Brown. Visit Romanesque castles cut from native lava and country retreats designed by the country's foremost architects. Linda Wommack offers a tour of the finest mansions in Colorado, all proudly bearing the mark of the State and National Registers of Historic Preservation.
Author : Sandra Dallas
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 15,82 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429977515
From the New York Times bestselling author of Whiter Than Snow and Prayers for Sale comes a novel about the secrets and passions of three generations of women who have all lived in the same Victorian home called the Bride's House. It's 1880, and for unassuming seventeen-year-old Nealie Bent, the Bride's House is a fairy tale come to life. It seems as if it is being built precisely for her and Will Spaulding, the man she is convinced she will marry. But life doesn't go according to plan, and Nealie finds herself in the Bride's House pregnant---and married to another. For Pearl, growing up in the Bride's House is akin to being raised in a mausoleum. Her father has fashioned the house into a shrine to the woman he loved, resisting all forms of change. When the enterprising young Frank Curry comes along and asks for Pearl's hand in marriage, her father sabotages the union. But he underestimates the lengths to which the women in the Bride's House will go for love. Susan is the latest in the line of strong and willful women in the Bride's House. She's proud of the women who came before her, but the Bride's House hides secrets that will force her to question what she wants and who she loves. Sandra Dallas has once again written a novel rich in storytelling and history, peopled by living, breathing characters that will grab hold of you and not let you go.
Author : Amy B. Zimmer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,92 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1467130583
Images of America: Denver's Historic Homes provides a mere introduction into the myriad of architectural styles and the unique blending of cultures that have made the Rocky Mountain region so remarkable, from the city's inception as a mining claim to what it has become today. From itinerantly used sod and log homes to mansions that rivaled the grandest of their period, Denver's eclectic gathering of early residents produced a landscape of architectural monuments that attest to the people's needs, desires, values, and occasional eccentricities.
Author : Michael Norman
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 16,80 MB
Release : 2007-09-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780765319678
Contains over seventy tales of ghostly hauntings from each of the fifty United States and Canada.
Author : Thomas Jacob Noel
Publisher : Historic Denver, Incorporated
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 10,32 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9780914248330
The Historic Denver Guides series immerses readers in the rich history of Denver's buildings and neighborhoods, exploring the city through entertaining tours. The Park Hill Neighborhood guide walks you through one of Denvere's most elegant neighborhoods.
Author : Edith Eudora Kohl
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 1957
Category : Architecture, Domestic
ISBN :
Author : Shelby Carr
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 1467146498
For more than four decades at the turn of the century, Louise Sneed Hill ruled over Denver's high society with her southern charm, societal tact and passion for success. Hill created a society group dubbed the "Sacred Thirty-Six" and held parties that encouraged animal dances, roller skating and alcohol consumption. She fashioned herself to the public as a hardworking, self-made woman. She used the press to sell her image, emphasize amusement and aid in her mission to transform society from Victorian morality to unabashed fun. She pushed boundaries at a time when American society was unsure of its social direction. Historian Shelby Carr delves into the complex story of the highly mythicized, misrepresented and misunderstood Mrs. Crawford Hill.
Author : Amy B. Zimmer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 33,5 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738571560
When Henry Cordes Brown donated a parcel of his land in 1868 as a location for a future state capitol, no one could imagine what a thriving neighborhood the area around "Brown's Bluff" would become. Twenty years later, Capitol Hill would grow into the city's most fashionable residential district. Through the years, Capitol Hill evolved, seeing everything from millionaire's row to skid row, and remains today one of Denver's most diverse and intriguing neighborhoods. Not only is the area home to Colorado's government, but it also contains some of the city's most remarkable architecture. More than that, however, the history of Capitol Hill is filled with memorable people, places, and stories.
