A Visit from 1932 Neighbors! Ted and Elaine and Kathy.  Just names maybe, but to all of us here at the Lumber Baron, they are fountains of historical knowledge.  Turns out Ted and Elaine lived next door to the Inn from 1932-1934.

    Elaine was just 6 years old at the time and lived in the terrace apartments just north of the Lumber Baron with her parents and brother Ted, 2 years younger.  Their time at 3734 Bryant was a happy one, filled with many memories of interactions with the big house on the corner owned by the Fowler family.  Ted remembers coming to the back door (north) to often greet the man of the house, Hiram Fowler, who would give young Ted candy.  Hiram had a mining business in the house and was always seen in a full suit and tie. 

    His niece, Gloria Nelson, stayed up in the present-day Anniversary Suite with her mother, Annalee Fowler where they had two twin beds along the East wall.  And outside the East window was a screened-in balcony.

    Elaine remembers playing up in the third floor ballroom with Gloria.  Elaine remembers an enormous doll house set up near the middle of the ballroom where she and Gloria waxed away the days.  The doll house left such an imprint that decades later, Elaine would build her own- connecting to those childhood days in the ballroom of the Lumber Baron.

     Ted had some interesting memories of the ballroom as well.  Ted would sometimes play wiht a gas-powered airplane there, mostly running it along imaginary taxiways.  Ted’s son, Ted Jr., would come back to live in the apartments in the early 1960’s- both in the first floor (today’s kitchen) apartment and in the first floor (today’s dining room) apartment.

    Both the kids remember silver dollars being associated with the house; Gloria collected money- especially silver dollars, Pappy Tatum who lived in the basement had a collection of silver dollars, and one fateful day Elaine pinched a silver dollar from the stash of a Denver Post paper boy who lived in today’s Mary Ann Keller Suite!