About

This is a one-and-one-half-story Late Victorian frame house, with a full-width wraparound porch supported by turned posts. It has lap siding and fish-scale shingles that decorate the top gables. A row of long, rectangular spindles sits below the porch roofline. There are multi-light windows in the façade gables, and a recessed door on the east.

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Timeline

• 1892

  William R. Shoup, his wife Ora, and son, Oliver Henry Shoup, aged 13, arrived in the city in 1882. William worked as a stockman.

  Attending local schools, Oliver worked as a bookkeeper with General Palmer’s Colorado Springs Company while studying at the Colorado College.

  After 8 years, he served as personal secretary and then general manager to Verner Z. Reed’s real estate company. While serving on the board of directors of several gold mining companies, he invested in sugar factories on the West Slope, planting thousands of fruit trees. In 1910, he partnered in early oil drilling in the Salt Creek field of Wyoming,

  Later, he became the first president of the Midwest Oil Company With the support of local newspapers, Shoup was elected governor of Colorado in 1918, and re-elected two years later.

Additional Resources

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