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Coors Mansion
Circa 1900

This photograph shows the home of Adolph Coors and his family, before a group of companion buildings including the greenhouses were built.  The mansion was originally built by Coors and Schueler as the dance pavilion for Golden Park in 1878.  In 1882 the building was fully enclosed and divided, with the Coors family living in half and the other half used for grain storage.  In 1903 Coors hired Denver master architect Harold W. Baeressen to convert the basic building into this beatiful mansion designed in Palladian motif.  It has since remained in the Coors family and has been pushed eastward 3 times by brewery expansion.