- Dixon–Markle House
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Dixon–Markle House
North (front) elevation, 2010
Location within ColoradoLocation: Aspen, CO Coordinates: 39°11′18″N 106°49′21″W / 39.18833°N 106.8225°WCoordinates: 39°11′18″N 106°49′21″W / 39.18833°N 106.8225°W Built: 1888 Architectural style: Queen Anne Governing body: Private residence MPS: Historic Resources of Aspen NRHP Reference#: 87000165 Added to NRHP: March 6, 1987 The Dixon–Markle House is located at the corner of East Cooper Avenue and South Aspen Street in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a wood frame house erected in the 1880s. In 1987 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places along with other properties in the city.
It is believed to have been the house of a successful miner during the silver-mining boom years that established Aspen. A complex application of the Queen Anne architectural style, it features an unusual projecting bay on its northeast corner. It has remained relatively intact from the time of its construction.
Building
The house is located on the southwest corner of the intersection, one block west of Rubey Park, which buffers the commercial eastern portion of Aspen from its residential West End. Surrounding buildings are all multiple-unit dwellings. A detached garage faces an unnamed alley connecting South Aspen and South Garmisch streets south of the property. The terrain is level, with the slopes of Aspen Mountain rising within two blocks to the southwest and south. On the lot's north bound is a small iron fence, with a stone walk leading to the sidewalk.
The building itself is a two-and-a-half-story rectangular structure sided with clapboard and topped with a wood-shingled hipped roof gabled on the north (front) elevation. That two-bay facade has a full-length shed-roofed porch on the ground floor with turned posts, balustrade and a spindled frieze. At the northeast corner is a square-shaped two-story projecting bay topped with a gabled dormer window.[1]
East elevation
On the east facade the porch roof is continued with a belt course of dark wood shingles, flared slightly and set off with molded surrounds. Near the south end of the facade on the first story is another slight projecting bay with a hipped roof. Its two windows are one-over-one double-hung sash, like all those on the house. There is a single window above. On the rear the shingled course ends in a steeply pitched pent-roofed porch with similar treatment to the front.
See also
- National Register of Historic Places in Pitkin County, Colorado
References
- ^ "Pitkin County". History Colorado. http://www.historycolorado.org/oahp/pitkin-county. Retrieved May 12, 2011.
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