Look for a bay window

This house was owned by a cashier in the J.B. Wheeler Bank. He had worked for 16 years with the bank of New York and 5 years with the First National Bank of Denver and is a good example of a home owned by a typical successful man.

Look for wooden clapboard, entablature, fish scale shingles, portico, columns, cornice & reveal windows

This was originally J.D. Hooper’s house. He came to Aspen in 1887 and owned the Hooper Hook and Ladder company for fire protection. He was sheriff in 1885. He built the County Courthouse. The house, which consists of a log cabin and 2 to 3 houses stuck together, was remodeled in 1984.

Second Empire Style: Look for mansard roof, dormers & transom

Henry Webber, a cobbler and shoe merchant, built this house of local brick in 1885. It is Second Empire style, as you can see by the mansard roof. The Prechtls, who owned a blacksmith shop, owned it later. Walter Paepcke bought it in 1940, and he and his wife Elizabeth remodeled and redecorated it.

Neo-Victorian

Note the carriage stone in front

This house was built in 1888 and was first owned by S.I. Hallett, the superintendent of the Smuggler Mine and cashier of the Compromise Mining Co., the Durant Mine, and the Conamora Mine.

Look for oriel window, entablature, columns & steep gable

This house was built by Mr. Copeland, the cashier and assistant manager of Taylor and Brunton Sampling Works. It sits on a stone foundation that is made from peachblow sandstone from the Frying Pan River. Its paint colors are historically correct, and it features the only oriel window left in Aspen.

Look for bay window, cornice, transom & dentils

Eugene Wilder, who owned one of the five lumber yards in town, built this house. The house has a very plain design with a bit of decoration that may have been ordered from a catalogue; which was typical practice at the time when machine made details were made available to builders.

Neo-Victorian

Look for reveal window, fish scale shingles & columns

Francis Orange built this house in 1888. It became the home of Judge Davis H. Waite who served as governor of Colorado. Herbert Bayer also lived in the house and designed the fence in the 1950s. Subsequently, R.O. Anderson, chairman of Atlantic Ritchfield Oil Co. and chairman of the board of the Aspen Institute, purchased the house.

Ryland R. Bowles built this house. He was active in mining, lumber, furniture, and hardware. At one time Red and Peggy Rowland owned this Queen Anne style home. Red was Ski Co. Vice President and Aspen Mountain manager for many year

120 E. Francis
Captain T.C. Monaghan, owner of the Buckhorn Saloon, owned this building. The Aspen Daily Times reported that it would have the best billiard room in the city. The building was rehabilitated in 1993.

The J.E. McClure house was built in 1893, and Mr. McClure lived there with his sister and her husband, the Cannings. Mr. Canning was superintendent of the Deep Shaft Mining and Drainage Co. Their daughter, Annette, was a high school teacher in Aspen. In 1964 they sold it to Mr. Gordon Hardy, Dean of the Aspen Music School, who lived in it until recently.

123 E. Hallam (Kirk House) This building was Benny’s Shop, a garage, until Dr. Kirk later remodeled it. It is often thought to be one of the best examples of Victorian house restoration in the West End.

Richardsonian Romanesque: look for rounded towers, massive, heavy style, use of rough-cut masonry, deeply recessed windows, open loggia on the facade

This building is listed as one of America's National Historic Buildings. In 1887 the trustees of the First Presbyterian Church bought the property at Aspen and Bleeker Streets and the cornerstone was laid in 1890. Some 500 people attended the dedication service on March 3, 1891. At the time, the Aspen Daily Times described the new church as "nearly square with a steep roof and a large round tower; being somewhat in the style of a feudal castle" and the beautiful stained glass windows were among the first features that attracted attention upon entering."

This house was originally built in 1892 by A.G. Sheppard on a lot he bought for $300 from Isac Cooper (of Cooper Street fame). It was subsequently sold to DRC Brown for $2000 and later transferred to the Cowenhovens, two prominent Aspen families.

J.W. (Three-Fingered Jack) Atkinson built this home during the 1890s. Aspen’s only Depression era doctor, Dr. Twining and his wife lived in the house in 1935. Tom Sardy purchased the house in 1945 and moved in his mortuary business. Tom was well-known for his community involvement and for facilitating the building of Aspen’s airport, Sardy Field. In 1986, the house was renovated and opened as a bed and breakfast hotel.

This house was built for mining and land attorney Porter Plumb in 1888. By 1889, City Judge Strickland owned it, and around 1950 it belonged to the Chisholm family.