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Bells of Granite Glen Museum

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1920, Arthur H. Jones. 30213 Upper Bear Creek Rd.

The Jones family lived in tents on the site while this large, three-story house of log and local granite was being constructed. Winston Jones, whose father designed this mountain mansion, began collecting bells in 1925 and now has some 5,000, including school bells, locomotive bells, hotel desk bells, mine warning bells, and Molly Brown's Chinese dinner gong. Bells filled the house and overflowed into the grounds, inspiring the Joneses to open their house as a museum in 1957.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Keys on the Green Restaurant and Evergreen Golf Club
Evergreen Lake Skating and Boat House
Hiwan Homestead Museum
Jefferson County Public Library
Evergreen Episcopal Conference District (Stewart Hotel)

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Bells of Granite Glen Museum", [Evergreen, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-JF53.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 166-166.

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