Cathleen M Norman
3) Survey Report: 2004-2005 Historic Resources Survey of the Ouray National Register Historic District
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December 21, 2005
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©2000
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"With his fortune made during the Cripple Creek gold rush and subsequent commercial and industrial ventures, Spencer Penrose, the maverick son of a wealthy Philadelphia clan, was the most prominent playboy in the Pikes Peak region. A partnership with his old Philadelphia chum, Charles L. Tutt, and marriage to a Detroit grande dame, Julie Villiers, ultimately converted this playboy into Colorado's premier philanthropist." "In A Pikes Peak Partnership,...