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Stanley House

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1905, T. Robert Wieger and Freelan O. Stanley. 411–415 Wonder View Ave.
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)
  • (Photograph by Matthew Aungst)

Instead of dying of tuberculosis as his doctor predicted, Freelan Stanley lived to be ninetyone and become a community patriarch responsible for developing the Estes Park power company, waterworks, and sewer system. An inventive and promotion-minded genius, Stanley helped put Estes Park on the map as a tourist town. His home, in a high-style Georgian Revival mode, was the prototype for the Stanley Hotel.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Elkhorn Lodge District
Park Theatre
Stanley Hotel
Estes Valley Public Library
MacGregor Ranch

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Stanley House", [Estes Park, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-LR32.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 235-235.

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