The Humphrey Museum and Ranch in Evergreen is the 1870s cattle ranch of J.J. Clarke. The Humphrey family bought Clarke's 350 acres and small log cabin in the 1920s and added on to the house. They continued ranching there throughout the 20th century. This historic home offers a look in to the ranching history of Colorado. The Hough-Baca House was built at the end of the Santa Fe Trail in Trinidad, Colorado. The grocery merchant John Hough built the two-story adobe in 1870. He later traded it to rancher Felipe Baca for a quantity of wool. The home is of English design with hacienda-style construction and Victorian furnishings.
The Grant-Humphreys Mansion in Denver is a beaux arts beauty from 1902 built for former Colorado Governor James Benton Grant. It is on the National Registry of Historic Places. The mansion has a brick facade and projecting balconies with terra cotta balustrades. It has 30 rooms. Rosemount, in Pueblo, is the 1893 37-room mansion built and lived in by the John Thatcher family for 75 years. Its architect was Henry Hudson Holly. Most of the furnishings, art and design elements are original to the home.
Molly Brown did not sink with the Titanic. The home of the shipwreck survivor known as "the Unsinkable Molly Brown" is in Denver. Historic Denver, Inc. was founded to save Molly's house from destruction and did so in 1970. It is an 1889 stone Queen Anne restored to look as it did in 1910. The Barney Ford house in Breckenridge is another that was preserved because of its owner's fame. The 1882 Victorian home was owned by escaped slave Barney Ford who became a prominent civic leader, mine owner and businessman in Colorado. He was also a civil rights advocate.
Mesa Verde, near Telluride is where you will find the oldest historic homes in Colorado. It holds the dwellings and cliff houses of the ancient Anasazi Indians, who lived there for 12,000 years. Hovenweep National Monument on the Utah/Colorado border is the site of more ancient historic homes. Six Pueblo Indian-era villages can be explored there with their multistory towers.
