CO -- Denver -- Lookout Mountain Nature Center & Preserve (and Boettcher Mansion):
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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- LOOK_060530_020.JPG: Fireside Room
- LOOK_060530_095.JPG: Carriage house
- LOOK_060530_119.JPG: The nature center
- LOOK_060530_153.JPG: Complete with fake poop
- LOOK_060530_166.JPG: Several paintings by Julie T. Chapman were on display.
- Description of Subject Matter: Connect with nature at this 110 acre park. Inside experience exhibits that depict migrating birds and reveal secrets of the ponderosa pine forest. Visit the Discovery Corner and Observation Room. Outside stroll trails winding through forest and meadow, picnic beneath towering pine trees or join a naturalist-guided program.
History: Charles Boettcher, a prominent Denver entrepreneur, built his family's summer home in 1917. In 1968, his granddaughter, Charliene Breeden, donated the home and 110-acre property to Jefferson County. Today, the Boettcher Mansion is a rustic, yet elegant setting for social and business events.
Lookout Mountain Nature Center (LMNC) was housed humbly first in one room of the Boettcher Mansion, then in the garage. In 1990, it moved to the servant's house. In 1997, the new LMNC opened its doors. The facility demonstrates sustainable design by using earth-friendly building products including floors from recycled train boxcars, decking of recycled soda bottles and sawdust, floor tiles from recycled windshields, locally quarried rock, native plant landscaping and more!
The above was from http://www.co.jefferson.co.us/openspace/openspace_T56_R14.htm
Charles Boettcher (1852-1948) came to the United States at the age of 17 in 1869. He arrived a poor man, but would build one of Colorado’s richest, longest lived and most diversified industrial empires. This German immigrant first made money selling hardware to Colorado miners. Avoiding dicey mining ventures, the shrewd German plunged heavily in what proved more worthwhile—mining machinery, tools, household goods and merchandise of every kind. His slogan: "Hard Goods. Hardware. Hard Cash."
When the economy shifted from mining to agriculture, Boettcher and some associates formed the Great Western Sugar Company. This proved to be Colorado’s most lucrative agricultural operation by the 1920s. Boettcher built sugar processing factories of high-grade cement which led him into another profitable enterprise, the Ideal Cement Company. Wisely putting his eggs in many baskets, he invested in diverse enterprises ranging from cattle ranching to the Capitol Life Insurance Company, from the Brown Palace Hotel to the Denver Tramway Company. Even after his death at age 96, he kept helping Colorado through the Boettcher Foundation. After making millions in the Highest State, he insisted that the Foundation fund only Colorado projects. He is commemorated by Boettcher Halls at the Colorado History Museum, Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver Performing Arts Center and many other institutions, and the Boettcher Conservatory at the Denver Botanic Gardens.
The above was from http://www.denvergov.org/aboutdenver/history_char_boettcher.asp
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