About

This home is an ornate Queen Anne, with its asymmetrical façade, full-width porch, multiple gables, corner conical roof, turned spindles, and generous use of dentils.

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Timeline

• 1900

  Charles Barnes Ferrin was born in Watertown, Conn, and arrived in the region in the early 1880s, and started working as a press boy for the Out West Publishing Co, the parent company of the Gazette Telegraph newspaper.

  He was elected fire chief of Colorado Springs in 1888, serving until 1890.

  In 1895, he married Nellie B. Stockbridge, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stockbridge; Stockbridge had served as mayor of Colorado City and had founded one of the largest wholesale liquor businesses in Southern Colorado.

  By 1900, Ferrin had worked as a traveling agent of Out West for three years, selling office supplies, books for recording, paper, stationery, and election supplies.

  The wedding was one of the social highlights of the year. Ferrin eventually rose to president and general manager of the Out West.

Additional Resources

• Drive Folder – a collection of documents compiled during the Historic Uptown Neighborhood’s historic preservation efforts.