   Franz Berko, Aspen’s foremost photographer during the 1950s and ’60s, opened his studio and toy shop in this building, which dates from 1889. He came to Aspen at Walter Paepcke’s invitation and soon decided to settle here. His career encompassed photography and film making in London, Paris, and India. He taught at Chicago’s institute of Design and became the Aspen Institute’s official photographer of leading visitors, including Albert Schweitzer, Thornton Wilder, Arturo Rubinstein, and Adlai Stevenson. The left section of this Victorian building, which was originally located in the middle of this block, was moved to its present location in the early 1990s and a small section on the right was added. Franz Berko died on March 18, 2000.
< left: Mesa Bank 2000. © Ann Hodges photo; Right: Franz Berko
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< The building, which would become Berko's Studio in the 1950s, would have been found just off the left edge of this photo when it was taken on Hopkins Avenue, c. 1900. The large brick building you see here at left is the location of the small Victorian today.
