Herman Coors House
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| Herman Coors House | |
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| U.S. National Register of Historic Places | |
| Location: | 1821 Arapahoe Street, Golden, Colorado |
| Built/Founded: | circa 1910 |
| Architect: | Jacques Benedict (1917 renovation) |
| Architectural style(s): | Tudor Revival |
| Added to NRHP: | October 17, 1997 |
The home of Herman Frederick Coors was originally built as a modest bungalow sometime around the 1910s by Elmer Bengson, a son of a prominent area Swedish immigrant family. In 1917 it was purchased by Coors, a younger son of Adolph Coors, who hired noted area architect Jacques Benedict to transform it into a beautiful and artistic Tudor Revival style home, with a wooden arch front door canopy and stone terracing around. Coors was an officer of the Coors Porcelain Company, and in 1921 moved away to Inglewood, California where he established the H.F. Coors Company to manufacture porcelain there. The house was then purchased by banker Edward A. Phinney, who owned the Rubey National Bank in downtown Golden. He built companion cottage and barn buildings behind the house in 1928. His fortunes took a tragic turn, however, during the Bank Holiday of the Great Depression, when he lost much of his fortune trying to save the bank. Since that time the home has remained very well and artistically preserved.
