A long-vacant old farmhouse at 3624 E. Mulberry St. may be entering a new chapter after its recent purchase by Fort Collins’ Natural Areas department.
The department bought the parcel for $1,025,000 in December 2025 — marking its latest acquisition along one of the Fort Collins area’s few natural wetlands and the prospective site of a new city natural area. Now, it’s trying to figure out what to do with a property that has as much history as it does challenges.
Since its construction around 1900, the brick farmhouse has been associated with prominent rancher Edwin J. Temple; well-known local farmer William Baker; and Harold Greager, an accountant and lawyer who lived there with his wife, Hazel, from at least the 1960s until their deaths just six months apart in 1986, according to past Coloradoan reporting and a city staff report presented to the Historic Preservation Commission on Feb. 18…