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1115 Grant
Street This amazing home was built on ten lots in 1892 for Dennis Sheedy, an important Denver businessman. Sheedy spared no expense in its construction. There are fifteen fireplaces, one for each room in the house. A master craftsman hand-carved expensive woodwork for the home. Each room was finished with a different color and decorated with matching furniture. Since the Sheedys liked to entertain, pocket doors were installed so that rooms on the first floor could be combined into one large open space. Windows, balconies and cupolas opened up rooms even more. Electric lights and indoor plumbing made 1115 Grant Street unusually modern.
As reported in the Western Architect and Building News, May 1891, the Sheedy home will be 54x79 feet in size, two stories in height, with basement and exceptionally high attic. The building will be of pressed brick, with red sandstone trimmings. The basement will contain the laundry-rooms, storage-rooms and bathrooms for the servants. The first floor is very well arranged. There is a parlor, dining-room, library, sitting-room, breakfast-room and smoking-room, all accessible from one long corridor. In the rear is the kitchen and pantries. The second floor contains eight rooms, exclusive of bathrooms and halls. There are seven bedrooms, all of which are connected with an adjoining room. The sewing-room is also on this floor. The attic floor will contain a number of bedrooms and the servants' quarters. The current
owners, Havekost and Associates, have completed outstanding preservation
work. They have saved the original architectural building plans,
which document Peachblow
sandstone in the stairs of the porte
cochere, Pikes Peak
Granite in the north entrance-door threshold, and Manitou
sandstone as the main dimension stone in the foundation walls
and ground-level support of the large porch.
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