A 136-year-old stone-and-shingle house in Denver’s Sloan’s Lake neighborhood is on the market in two pieces, with the three-bedroom side at 1444 Stuart Street listed for $825,000 and the four-bedroom side at 1442 Stuart Street listed for a little over $1 million. Known as the Spangler House, the building was split into two separate residences following a renovation that preserved much of its original character.
According to Westword, the 1444 Stuart side has three bedrooms and three bathrooms, while the 1442 side has four bedrooms and four bathrooms. The outlet reports that the restoration kept original details intact, including stained glass windows and emblems etched into archways, before the structure was divided into its current two-home configuration.
The house carries the name of its original owner, Jane Spangler, who lived there as a widow, Westword reports. She moved to Stuart Street to be near her sister, who was married to Ralph Voorhees — a figure in his own right in Denver history, credited with introducing the bill that established Flag Day in Colorado, helping found Colorado Woman’s College, and financing the trestle that brought cable cars to Denver’s west side, per the same account.
The Architect Behind the Design
The Spangler House was designed by William Lang, the architect also behind the Molly Brown House — now a museum in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood — and St. Mark’s Parish, a building later used as the Church nightclub, according to the article. Lang, born in 1846 in Ohio and a Civil War veteran, moved to Denver around 1885 to become an architect and designed more than 250 buildings in the city between 1885 and 1893, the report states. His work is known for rusticated stone and large arches, a style visible in both halves of the Stuart Street property…