"Glen Eyrie" (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

 residence, country house, Tudor (architecture), NRHP - National Register of Historic Places

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Glen Eyrie Castle, the 67-room Tudor-style castle home of Colorado Springs city founder General William Jackson Palmer. Palmer served as a Colonel on the Union side in the Civil War, and was breveted a Brigadier General before mustering out at the end of the war. He first visited what would become the Colorado Springs area in 1869, while leading a survey team for the Kansas Pacific Railroad. He later founded and served as president of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad and the Colorado Springs Company, the real estate development company that developed Colorado Springs and Manitou Springs. Colorado Springs architect Thomas MacLaren and Denver architect Frederick J. Sterner both had hands in the design of the estate.

Listed in the National Register of Historic Places.

www.gleneyrie.org
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