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The Hotel Jerome is located on East Main Street (State Highway 82) in Aspen, Colorado, United States. It is a brick structure built in the 1880s that is often described as one of the city's major landmarks, its "crown jewel".
May 12, 1975 [6] (12 miles (19 km) south of Aspen in the White River National Forest [6: Aspen: At one time in the early 1880s, a thousand people lived in this mining camp. It has been a ghost town since the last resident died in 1939.
Lenado, Colorado, elevation 8,540 feet (2,603 m), [1] is a ghost town in Pitkin County, Colorado near Woody Creek along Woody Creek Road. Its main period of activity was in the late 19th century, due to the local lead and zinc deposits, during which time it was home to ca. 300 people.
Pitkin County is a county in the U.S. state of Colorado.As of the 2020 census, the population was 17,358. [1] The county seat and largest city is Aspen. [2] The county is named for Colorado Governor Frederick Walker Pitkin.
Eventually the Paepckes acquired many of Aspen's landmarks, such as the Hotel Jerome and Wheeler Opera House, as well as many of the houses in the West End, and hired Bauhaus architect Herbert Bayer to refurbish them. Paepcke invested heavily in the new Aspen Skiing Company, and was eventually able to start the first Aspen Music Festival in 1949
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