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Spencer and Julie Penrose purchased El Pomar, the Potter's wine cellar collection, and house furnishings in 1916 for $75,000 (equivalent to $2,100,000 in 2023) [1]: 8:14 near The Broadmoor, a resort that they had built following a European vacation. [6] [c] They added second and third floors to the house. [1]
In 1918 Penrose opened an opulent resort hotel known as The Broadmoor, built outside the city which was a "dry" community. In 1937 he and his wife Julie established the El Pomar Foundation, to support activities to improve Colorado. In 2001, Penrose was inducted into the Hall of Great Westerners of the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. [1]
As a memorial to her husband Mrs. Penrose had the Carriage House Museum (now the Penrose Heritage Museum) built for his collection of carriages and automobiles. She moved into the hotel's sixth floor in 1944. [14] In 1959 a ski area was built for the resort. [14] The 144-room Broadmoor South and the International Center were built in 1961.
Penrose unilluminable room: Image title: Roger Penrose's solution of the illumination problem using elliptical arcs (blue) and straight line segments (green), with 3 positions of the single light source (red spot), drawn by CMG Lee. The purple crosses are the foci of the larger arcs. Lit and unlit regions are shown in yellow and grey, respectively.
Businessman Spencer Penrose was given a gift of a bear in 1916 which inspired him to collect animals. Animals were housed at Penrose's Broadmoor Hotel until a monkey bit a hotel guest. [7] Cheyenne Mountain Zoo was founded in 1926 to house the collection of exotic animals. In 1938, Spencer Penrose incorporated the Zoo as a non-profit public ...
Two days later, Tutt offered Penrose half interest in his real estate business for $500, as well as 1/16 interest in the "C.O.D." mine in return for raising $10,000 to pay miners and buy equipment. A gold vein was discovered in the mine. In 1894, Charles sold the C.O.D. mine for $250,000. He and Penrose decided to go into another business together.
The Lied Center for Performing Arts (/ l iː d / LEED; [2] frequently shortened to Lied Center or the Lied) is a multi-venue performing arts facility in Lincoln, Nebraska, United States. It opened in 1990 on the southwest edge of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln's City Campus. The main stage at the Lied Center has a seating capacity of ...
1895 house expanded into a hotel in 1914—when Long Pine boomed as a major railroad terminus—exhibiting an old-fashioned "longitudinal block" layout more typical of Nebraska's earliest hotels. [26]