About

This is a two-story and one-half-story frame covered with lap siding, with a belt course of square shingles. The façade gable displays an array of shingle patterns, the top rear has an octagon alternating with half-cove shingles. Boxed-shaped gables are divided in the middle into sections by half-timbering. The top section features octagon shingles, the paired middle sections are half-cove set at a diagonal, and the bottom has only half-cove shingles. A second-story sleeping porch with very narrow lap siding occupies the northwest corner, atop a full-width-first porch.

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Timeline

• 1896

  W. H. Gandy was the initial occupant of this house. He arrived in Colorado Springs and began selling boots and shoes. By 1892 Gandy rose to secretary of the Mutual Mining and Milling Company. Later he became a commission merchant, lending funds to enable manufacturing or farming. He formed his mining brokerage firm in 1896.

Additional Resources

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