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Briggle House

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1896. 104 N. Harris St.

William Harrison Briggle, a cashier at the Engle Brothers Exchange Bank, and his bride Kathleen built this Victorian frame cottage around a one-room, hewn log cabin that is now the south parlor. Some semicircular windows still contain the original wavy glass. The house was the Mars Hotel, a crash pad for hippies, during the 1970s, before its restoration as a house museum by the Summit Historical Society. The Briggle House stands next to the Alice G. Milne Memorial Park (1991, Baker + Hogan Associates), featuring an 1880 clapboarded log house with newspaper insulation and the original icebox; the tiny board-and-batten Eberlein House (1877); and a Carpenter's Gothic outhouse.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church
Colorado Mountain College (Breckenridge School)
Father Dyer Methodist Church
Summit County Courthouse
Offices (Bank of Breckenridge)

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Briggle House", [Breckenridge, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-ST18.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 462-463.

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