Английская Википедия:El Pomar Estate

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Шаблон:Use mdy dates Шаблон:Infobox NRHP The El Pomar Estate was the Penrose House and estate of Spencer and Julie Penrose in the Broadmoor, Colorado, Colorado Springs, Colorado It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties.Шаблон:R

William F. Dixon

Pioneer William F. Dixon, the first to settle in Cheyenne Canon, claimed the land in 1862 for what would be the Dixon Ranch and orchard. He built irrigation ditches for his farm and orchard and raised cattle. A portion of his property that had been apple orchards became the El Pomar estate.Шаблон:Efn

The Potter estate

In 1909 or 1910, Grace (Шаблон:Nee Goodyear) Depew built a Spanish style single-story house named El Pomar, Spanish for "the apple orchard".Шаблон:RШаблон:RpШаблон:R In April 1910, Grace married Captain Ashton Howard Potter.Шаблон:RШаблон:RpШаблон:Efn After the couple's relationship became strained, Potter lived in another house on the estate until his death on August 5, 1914. Grace died shortly thereafter on September 12, 1914.Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp Author Julian Street called it the "house of houses" in Colorado Springs, not knowing one in the country that "fits its setting better than this one, or which is more perfect thing from every point of view."Шаблон:R

The Penrose estate

Spencer and Julie Penrose purchased El Pomar, the Potter's wine cellar collection, and house furnishings in 1916 for $75,000 (Шаблон:Inflation)Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp near The Broadmoor, a resort that they had built following a European vacation.Шаблон:RШаблон:Efn They added second and third floors to the house.Шаблон:R The estate buildings included the main house, gate lodge, carriage house, gardener's cottage, chauffeur's cottage, and a teahouse.Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp Furnishings purchased or built for the Penroses that remain in El Pomar include Vermont Corona and Belgian black marble, a rare Aeolian organ with ceiling decorations over vents that allowed organ music to drift throughout the house, secret doors that held a wine cellar in the library during Prohibition, and some furnishings.Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp

James Bell, who had been president of the National Association of Gardeners, was superintendent of El Pomar until his death in 1920.Шаблон:R

Sisters of Charity retreat

In 1944, following her husband's death in 1939, Julie Penrose moved out of El Pomar and into a penthouse suite at The Broadmoor. She donated the estate to The Sisters of Charity of Cincinnati,Шаблон:RШаблон:R who used it as a spiritual retreat center for almost 50 years.Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp Named the Julie Penrose Center, it was the first Catholic retreat center for women west of the Mississippi.Шаблон:R It was administered by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Denver.Шаблон:R

El Pomar Foundation

In 1992, El Pomar became the headquarters for the El Pomar Foundation, founded by Spencer and Julie Penrose in 1937.Шаблон:RШаблон:RШаблон:Rp The foundation initiated a restoration of the estate in 1992 to be used as a conference center, while preserving the integrity of the original architecture.Шаблон:R The estate is now the Penrose House Nonprofit Conference and Education Center for non-profit organizations.Шаблон:RШаблон:RpШаблон:R It has been visited by Margaret Thatcher, Mikhail Gorbachev, and George H. W. Bush, former heads of state.Шаблон:RШаблон:Rp

See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in El Paso County, Colorado
• History of Colorado Springs, Colorado