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 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. The design of this building includes many classic Victorian elements—turrets, finials, iron trim and railings, changing roof lines, bay windows, porches, gables, and towers of varying sizes and shapes, wood tracing and fish scale gingerbread.
< The Sardy House, 2000. © Ann Hodges photo
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< Children in a cutter sleigh in front of the Sardy House in the 1950s while it was being used as Tom Sardy's home and mortuary. Notice the size of the evergreen trees. The small tree to the right would eventually become Aspen's traditional "Chirstmas Tree."
