Fitzroy Place (Colorado)
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The Fitzroy Place | |
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General information | |
Status | Completed |
Architectural style | Richardsonian Romanesque |
Location | 2160 S Cook St Denver, Colorado |
Current tenants | Accelerated Schools |
Construction started | 1891 |
Completed | 1893 |
Cost | US$65.000 (US$2.2 million in 2023 dollars[1]) |
Client | Elizabeth Iliff Warren |
Owner | Accelerated Schools |
Technical details | |
Material | Red Stone |
Size | 19,000+ square ft |
Floor count | 3 |
Lifts/elevators | 1 (no longer in the building) |
Design and construction | |
Architect(s) | Fuller and Wheeler |
Other information | |
Number of rooms | 120 |
Parking | Parking Lot, Street |
Warren/Iliff Mansion | |
NRHP reference No. | 75000508 |
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Significant dates | |
Added to NRHP | February 20, 1975 |
Designated NHL | September 12, 1974 |
The Fitzroy Place was completed in 1893 and was designed by Fuller and Wheeler, New York architects, and was built in the Richardsonian Romanesque style that was extremely popular on the west coast. The architects were noted for the numerous educational buildings they designed in the United States and overseas.
Elizabeth Iliff Warren, Widow of John Wesley Iliff, a successful cattle baron and Denver philanthropist, commissioned the mansion. He died in 1878 of gall bladder obstruction, leaving Elizabeth Warren, at 34, with four children, cattle, and a land empire.
The Fitzroy Mansion was named on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and designated a Denver Historic Landmark in 2008.[2]
Name Origin
The Warren-Iliff Mansion, more commonly known as The Fitzroy Place, was named after the birthplace of Mrs. Warren.
History
When Iliff Hall was started, construction had begun on stone residents for the Warrens on South Cook Street. They had engaged in the services of Fuller Wheeler, architects of Albany, New York. Though the plans for IliffHall have been lost, one would expect to have both buildings made with Lyons red sandstone and simultaneously designed by the same architects. They were, for William S. Iliffpaid Fuller and Wheeler $1,750 for the architectural designs on June 10, 1892. Though for many years, it was to be believed that the architect had been Frank E. Edbrooke of Denver because it was known that he had designed many Denver homes of the period.[3]
Fuller and Wheeler had offered to build the structure for "not less than $50,000," and by January 25, 1893, the total cost was $62,250.[3]
Building Statistics
Behind the over one hundred different doors of the property, separating between three different buildings, is sixteen basement doors, twenty-eight first-floor doors, eighteen-second floor doors, twenty-one third-floor doors, and one fourth-floor door.[4]
References
- ^ 1634–1699: McCusker, J. J. (1997). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States: Addenda et Corrigenda (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1700–1799: McCusker, J. J. (1992). How Much Is That in Real Money? A Historical Price Index for Use as a Deflator of Money Values in the Economy of the United States (PDF). American Antiquarian Society. 1800–present: Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. "Consumer Price Index (estimate) 1800–". Retrieved February 29, 2024.
- ^ https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/75000508
- ^ a b Iliff-Shattuck, Alberta (February 17, 1976). Singer Comes To Colorado. Denver: Denver Fortnightly Club. p. 16.
- ^ Iliff-Shattuck, Alberta (1976). Singer Comes To Colorado: The story behind the story. Denver: Denver Fortnightly Club. p. 2-31.