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| Wheeler / Stallard Museum |
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Location:
620 West Bleeker Street
Tel: 970.925.3721
Fax: 970.925.5347
Time:
Tues. – Sat. | 1 – 5pm
Fee:
$6 adults | $5 seniors (admission fee also includes the Holden/Marolt Museum) Children under 12 FREE. |
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| Jerome B. Wheeler built this Queen Anne style home in 1888. Despite his plans, his wife Harriet Macy Valentine Wheeler refused to leave their mansion in Manitou Springs, Colorado and the family never lived here. Edgar and Mary Ella Stallard moved into the house in 1905, eventually purchasing it in 1917. The family lived here for forty years. The house last served as the residence of the Aspen Institute's president before the Aspen Historical Society purchased it in 1969. |
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| The Wheeler / Stallard Museum |
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Co-sponsored by the City of Aspen and RFTA, “Go West, Young Man! but Park at the Intercept Lot” is a new exhibit at the Wheeler/Stallard Museum about transportation into and around the Aspen area from the days of the Ute Indians to the present day jet age. Designed, created and produced by the Society’s collections department, the exhibit is subtitled, “Aspen’s Transportation Dilemmas” and features displays on the foot and horse travel of the Utes and early pioneers, the story of autos, trains and planes and their impact on Aspen’s fortunes, and even a wall documenting the story of the entrance to Aspen complete with an area for visitor comments. Guests will find artifacts such as actual journals from the late 1800s written by early Aspen pioneer Charles Armstrong, a collection of Colorado license plates dating back to 1917, skis and clothing used by the Tenth Mountain Division during their WWII training near Ashcroft and, in a nod to Aspen’s Canary Initiative, carbon “footprints” on the floor of the exhibit noting the carbon impact of the various forms of transportation exhibited. The exhibit is installed in the Second Floor Gallery of the Museum and will be showing all summer and through next winter ski season. |
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| Victorian House Tours |
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By Special Arrangement A guide will lead you through the Wheeler/Stallard House and present aspects of Victorian Life in Aspen from the 1880s to the early 1900s.
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| Archives, Collections and Research |
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By Appointment
Explore the extensive Archives and Collections of artifacts, photographs, oral histories, newspapers from 1881, manuscripts, films and videos. Location: Wheeler/Stallard Carriage House.
Call 925.3721 ext. 103 or archives@aspenhistory.org
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