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In 1998, Amresco acquired Fowler, Goedecke, Ellis & O'Connor Inc. and merged the two companies to form Holliday Fenoglio Fowler L.P. [4] In 1999, the company was sold to Lendlease for $228 million. [5] [6] In 2007, it became a public company via an initial public offering that raised $257 million.
Powdr, stylized as POWDR, is an American privately held company that owns and operates ski resorts in the United States and Canada. It is headquartered in Park City, Utah, and was founded in 1994 by John Cumming, an early investor in the clothing company Mountain Hardwear with his father Ian.
John Wood Octagonal House: 1864 Quincy: Adams: IL Built by the town's founder, John Wood, later the governor of Illinois, at a cost said of $200,000. Demolished in the 1950s or 1960s Octagonal House 1875 Ames: Story: IA Constructed in the 1870s, demolished in 1982. Namesake and original location of The Octagon Center for the Arts. [26]
In 1916 Colorado enacted prohibition, leading Holzwarth to try homesteading at Grand River. The opening of the Fall River Road over the mountains to Estes Park in 1920 created an opportunity for Holzwarth to take in guests. The operation was taken over by John Holzwarth Jr., who ran it until 1973 when The Nature Conservancy bought the property. [2]
The development was incorporated in 1972, and according to real estate websites for the area, it has two championship 18-hole golf courses (McCormick Ranch Golf Club's Palm Course and Pine Course), more than 25 miles of bicycle paths, parks, public tennis courts, and 130 acres of man-made lakes (7 lakes total). [4] The largest of the man-made lakes
The lakes are named after Isaac S. Stapp, who discovered the region in 1893. After the railroad reached Ward, Colorado in 1898, guests had easier access to the resort. Stapp went on to file a homestead claim on 160 acres (65 ha) and establish the Stapp Lakes Ranch. He was granted a homestead patent to his entry at Stapp's lake in March 1899. [2]
The Twin Lakes Historic District, in Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado, is a 20 acres (8.1 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1974. It included 12 contributing buildings. [1] Another view in the district. Its 1974 National Register nomination asserted:
All the major mountain ranges in the state of Colorado, United States, are considered subranges of the Southern Rocky Mountains. As given in the table, topographic elevation is the vertical distance above the reference geoid , a mathematical model of the Earth's sea level as an equipotential gravitational surface.