Franklin Avery, who laid out Fort Collins, may have designed his own house from a pattern book, although architect Montezuma Fuller worked on matching additions. One-foot-thick walls of rough-faced tan sandstone quarried near Bellvue are trimmed in red sandstone. This Chateauesque cottage has tall chimneys and a high gable roof with bargeboard eaves, a
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Avery House
1879, Franklin C. Avery. 328 W. Mountain Ave. (near northwest corner of Meldrum St.) (NR)
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