William Allen White Cabins
William Allen White Cabins is located in Colorado
William Allen White Cabins
William Allen White Cabins is located in the United States
William Allen White Cabins
Nearest cityEstes Park, Colorado
Coordinates40°21′22″N 105°34′55″W / 40.35611°N 105.58194°W / 40.35611; -105.58194
Built1912
MPSRocky Mountain National Park MRA (AD)
NRHP reference No.73001944
Added to NRHPOctober 25, 1973[1]

The William Allen White Cabins are chiefly associated with newspaper editor William Allen White, who adopted what would become Rocky Mountain National Park as his summer residence from 1912 to his death in 1944. White had visited Estes Park, Colorado while in college, and had previously summered in Colorado Springs. In 1912, White and his wife Sallie purchased an 1887 cabin near Estes Park. The Whites expanded it the next year and built a privy, studio, and two guest cabins.

Main cabin interior

Visitors to the White place included Clarence Darrow, William Jennings Bryan, Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams and U.S. presidential candidate and Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. After William White's death in 1944 the compound remained in the family until 1972, when the property was purchased by the National Park Service. The property was the first nomination to the National Register of Historic Places from Rocky Mountain National Park. The house was rehabilitated in 1976 for use by artists-in-residence.[2]

See also

National Register of Historic Places listings in Larimer County, Colorado

References

  1. ↑ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ↑ "William Allen White Cabins". List of Classified Structures. National Park Service. January 11, 2009.
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