D.E. Frantz House

D.E. Frantz House
D.E. Frantz House
An ornate pale yellow wooden house with a pointed roofline between two tall evergreen trees. There is a white picket fence in front and a distant ridgeline in the rear.
North elevation, 2011
A map of Colorado showing major rivers and county boundaries. There is a red dot in the center of Pitkin County, in the west central region of the state.
A map of Colorado showing major rivers and county boundaries. There is a red dot in the center of Pitkin County, in the west central region of the state.
Location: Aspen, CO
Coordinates: 39°11′33″N 106°49′33″W / 39.1925°N 106.82583°W / 39.1925; -106.82583Coordinates: 39°11′33″N 106°49′33″W / 39.1925°N 106.82583°W / 39.1925; -106.82583
Built: 1909
Governing body: Private residence
MPS: Historic Resources of Aspen
NRHP Reference#: 87000152
Added to NRHP: March 6, 1987

The D.E. Frantz House is located on West Bleeker Street in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a wooden frame house constructed for a local lumber magnate in the early 20th century in the Queen Anne architectural style. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with other historic properties in the city.

It is the only Victorian house in Aspen that retains its oriel window..[1] It has remained a private residence ever since and is largely intact.

Building

The house is on the southwest corner of the intersection of West Bleeker and North Third Street, a block north of West Main Street (Colorado State Highway 82). To the west, on the opposite side of the street, is Pioneer Park, also listed on the Register. Another listed property, the Smith–Elisha House, is a block away on West Main. The neighborhood is at the point where the hotels on the edge of downtown Aspen, to the east, gives way to the residential enclaves of the city's West End. Tall shade trees are interspersed among the houses, which are mostly of more modern construction. The terrain is level, on the plain between Aspen Mountain to the south and the Roaring Fork River to the north.

A white picket fence separates the front yard from the sidewalk. The building itself is a one-and-three-quarter-story wood frame structure on a foundation of peachblow sandstone. It is topped by a steeply pitched cross-gabled roof The main entrance is to the west of the front section, on the north face of the crossing section, on a porch with turned posts and brackets. [2]

Siding is clapboard, with wide plain friezes marking the top and bottom of the large one-over-one double-hung sash window in the middle of the first story. Wood shingles are used on the section of the north (front) facade that overhangs the walkway on the east side to the front entrance. The oriel window on the second story has two smaller versions of the first-floor window.[2] Midway along its height, at another frieze, the siding changes to narrow, decorative vertical boards, with shingles again above the oriel. Vergeboard decorated with geometric patterns runs along the roofline.

See also

  • National Register of Historic Places in Pitkin County, Colorado

References


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