%1 http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/ en The Broadmoor http://coloradoencyclopedia.org/article/broadmoor <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--title--encyclopedia-article.html.twig x field--node--title.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--title.html.twig * field--string.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <span class="field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden">The Broadmoor</span> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: x field--node--field-article-image--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-article-image.html.twig * field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-article-image.html.twig * 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'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--node--title.html.twig' --> </a></h5> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--image.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--image.html.twig * field--body.html.twig x field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> <div class="clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item"><p>Built on the site of a failed casino complex and upscale suburban development, the Broadmoor opened in 1918 and is perennially ranked one of the top resorts in the United States.</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/field/field--text-with-summary.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 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--> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--body--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-body"><p>Perennially ranked one of the top resorts in the United States, the Broadmoor opened just southwest of <a href="/article/colorado-springs"><strong>Colorado Springs</strong></a> in 1918. Built on the site of a failed casino complex and upscale suburban development at the foot of <a href="/article/cheyenne-mountain"><strong>Cheyenne Mountain</strong></a>, the Broadmoor has grown over the decades into a sprawling resort of roughly 3,000 acres and nearly 800 rooms. Now owned by billionaire <strong>Philip Anschutz</strong>, the Broadmoor’s accommodations, restaurants, and other resort activities annually receive the highest ratings from AAA, Forbes Travel Guide, and other travel publications.</p><h2>Corn Brooms and Dairy Cows</h2><p>In the 1860s, when Colorado City served as a supply town for mining ventures in the mountains and Colorado Springs had not yet been founded, the area that is now the Broadmoor was part of a 720-acre corn and wheat farm owned by Burton C. Myers. Myers used his corn to make brooms that he sold in Colorado City.</p><p>In 1881 recent transplant William Wilcox acquired the Myers farm and 880 additional acres. Wilcox had moved from Philadelphia to Colorado Springs to recover from <a href="/article/tuberculosis-colorado"><strong>tuberculosis</strong></a>. He was the son of a paper and cement maker, but he bought the land to establish a dairy farm. Wilcox bought twenty cows and built an icehouse and cottages for the milkers and a large sixteen-room house for his family. He called his venture the Broadmoor Dairy Farm; the source of the name is unknown.</p><p>By 1885, Wilcox’s farm was struggling, and he was in search of a buyer or business partner. Luck brought him Count James Pourtales, a wealthy Prussian who was in Colorado Springs to woo his future wife. Pourtales apparently expected to invest $25,000 and quickly turn the farm’s fortunes around. Instead, he ended up spending several years and tens of thousands of dollars on the project. He increased the farm’s size to 2,400 acres, acquired Cheyenne Creek water rights, built new barns, and bought 200 new cows.</p><h2>Broadmoor City</h2><p>After 1887, when Colorado Springs land values started rising with the completion of the <strong>Colorado Midland Railway</strong>, Pourtales decided to use some of his land for development and speculation. In 1888 he established the Cheyenne Lake, Land and Improvement Company. With 320 acres and $12,000 in capital he built Cheyenne Lake, marked a series of streets radiating out from the lake, and planted 2,000 trees.</p><p>After sorting out some problems with the lake, the trees, and transportation from downtown Colorado Springs, in 1889 Pourtales combined all his local holdings, including the Broadmoor Dairy Farm, into a new venture called the Broadmoor Land and Investment Company. He platted the 2,400-acre development—an upscale suburb called Broadmoor City—and to entice buyers he promised to build an elegant casino beside the lake.</p><p><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="/image/first-broadmoor-casino"><img class="image-large" style="float:left;height:128px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/2023-12/Broadmoor%20Media%202_0.jpg" alt="First Broadmoor Casino" width="480"></a>In July 1891, the Broadmoor Casino opened on the east side of Cheyenne Lake. A white two-story Georgian-style building, it included dining rooms, ballrooms, game and billiard rooms, a bar, and a reading room. It was successful, but few people bought lots in the Broadmoor City development; by 1915, only about a dozen houses had been built. The Panic of 1893 doomed Pourtales’s plans for the area. In the wake of the panic, he had to turn over all his Broadmoor property to the London and New York Investment Company, which had given him a loan several years earlier.</p><p><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="/image/second-broadmoor-casino"><img class="image-large" style="float:right;height:142px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/2023-12/Broadmoor%20Media%203_0.jpg" alt="Second Broadmoor Casino" width="480"></a></p><p>Over the next fifteen years, the London and New York Investment Company leased the Broadmoor Casino as well as a small hotel on the west side of the lake. In 1897 the original casino burned down and was replaced by a smaller structure designed by local architect <strong>Thomas MacLaren</strong>.</p><p>In 1909 the estate of <a href="/article/cripple-creek"><strong>Cripple Creek</strong></a> millionaire <strong>Winfield Scott Stratton</strong> bought all the Broadmoor land with the intention of using part of it for the <strong>Myron Stratton Home</strong> for orphans and the elderly poor. The old hotel was leased to a girls’ school in 1913–14 and operated as a hotel in 1915.</p><div>&nbsp;</div><h2>Building the Broadmoor</h2><p>In 1916 the history of the Broadmoor area took a decisive turn. Early that year, <a href="/article/spencer-penrose"><strong>Spencer Penrose</strong></a>, who had made a fortune in Cripple Creek gold and Utah copper, moved with his wife, Julia, into the El Pomar villa west of Cheyenne Lake. Penrose was interested in acquiring or developing a high-class hotel in Colorado Springs, but his overtures to the <strong>Antlers Hotel</strong> downtown had been rebuffed. He turned to the old Broadmoor site as an alternative. In April, Penrose, C. M. MacNeill, and A. E. Carlton bought the 18-acre hotel and casino site, as well as 400 additional acres, for $90,000. They began planning a million-dollar hotel beside Cheyenne Lake.</p><p>To design the hotel, Penrose and his partners hired <strong>Frederick J. Sterner</strong>, known for his work on the Antlers Hotel, <a href="/article/william-jackson-palmer"><strong>William Jackson Palmer</strong></a>’s <a href="/article/glen-eyrie"><strong>Glen Eyrie</strong></a> castle, and the <a href="/article/daniels-and-fisher-tower"><strong>Daniels &amp; Fisher Tower</strong></a> in Denver. Soon, however, Sterner’s plans were deemed too elaborate, and he was dismissed. In his place the developers brought in Warren and Wetmore, a New York firm whose work included Grand Central Station and the Biltmore and Ritz-Carlton Hotels in New York. The new architects kept Sterner’s basic idea of a grand Italianate building covered in pink stucco (the pink shade was supposedly Penrose’s choice) on the east side of Cheyenne Lake.</p><p><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="/image/broadmoor-hotel-0"><img class="image-large" style="float:left;height:349px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/2023-12/Broadmoor-Media-4_0.jpg" alt="Broadmoor Hotel" width="480"></a> The former casino that had occupied the hotel site was moved south to become the golf course clubhouse, and construction on the hotel began in 1917. Meanwhile, Penrose acquired 800 more acres of land near the hotel, including the Horns on Cheyenne Mountain, and hired the Olmsted Brothers firm to design the resort’s grounds. After being designed and built at a cost of more than $2 million, the Broadmoor opened to the public in June 1918.</p><h2>The Penrose Years</h2><p>Penrose’s Broadmoor opened just as automobile tourism was becoming popular in the United States. It succeeded where previous ventures in the area had failed, in part because Penrose was committed to enhancing the resort and developing new attractions nearby. In the mid-1920s, he built Cheyenne Mountain Road, Cheyenne Mountain Lodge, and the <strong>Cheyenne Mountain Zoo</strong>. He also acquired the <a href="/article/manitou-and-pikes-peak-cog-railway"><strong>Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway</strong></a> to the summit of <a href="/article/pikes-peak"><strong>Pikes Peak</strong></a>, which complemented the auto road he had already built to the summit.</p><p>In 1932 Penrose maneuvered to get sole ownership of the Broadmoor, which he had originally developed with two partners. The hotel suffered during the Great Depression, and even had to close during the winter of 1935–36, but it survived. By the late 1930s, Penrose was expanding again, adding the Broadmoor Ice Palace, Will Rogers Stadium, and the <strong>Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun</strong> as nearby attractions.</p><p>After Penrose died in 1939, ownership of the hotel transferred to the Penroses’ recently established nonprofit, the <strong>El Pomar Foundation</strong>. <strong>Charles Tutt Jr.</strong>, the son of Penrose’s boyhood friend and business partner, became the president of the hotel. Tutt and his sons continued to run the hotel through the El Pomar Foundation until 1988.</p><h2>Postwar Expansion</h2><p>As the post–World War II American economy boomed and leisure travel increased, the Broadmoor prospered and expanded. In 1959 the resort opened a small ski area—Ski Broadmoor, on the lower slopes of Cheyenne Mountain—that operated until the 1980s. In 1961 the hotel added both the International Center, a conference and entertainment building that included an English-style pub called the Golden Bee, and Broadmoor South, a nine-story 144-room structure, with the world-class Penrose Room restaurant on the top floor. Broadmoor West opened across Cheyenne Lake from the main building in 1976, bringing the growing hotel’s room total to 560. In addition to increasing its accommodations, the resort also developed an impressive figure skating program and added two golf courses in the 1960s and 1970s.</p><h2>Today</h2><p>In 1988 the El Pomar Foundation sold the Broadmoor and related properties (including the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway) to Edward Gaylord and the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Over the next two decades, the new owners invested about $450 million in expansions and renovations at the hotel. In 1995 the Broadmoor West Tower opened, increasing the number of rooms to 700, and in 2001–2 the main building was closed for an extensive renovation. In the early 2000s, the Broadmoor complex added new condominiums and townhouses, an events center, and retail space.</p><p><a href="/image/broadmoor-hotel-1"><img style="float:right;height:372px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/2023-12/NEW-Spencer-Penrose-Media-2.jpg" alt="Broadmoor Hotel Today" width="480"></a>In 2011 the Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz acquired the Broadmoor, making him the hotel’s third owner since Spencer Penrose. Since then, he has invested more than $130 million in several large projects at the property. A 2014 expansion and renovation of Broadmoor West added three floors and thirty-one rooms and made the 1970s-era exterior blend in better with the rest of the resort. In addition, through its acquisition of <strong>Seven Falls</strong> and development of properties on Cheyenne Mountain and in <strong>Pike National Forest</strong>, the Broadmoor has introduced the Wilderness Experience, offering luxury accommodations and adventures in rustic settings.</p><p>The main Broadmoor complex now has nearly 800 rooms, a handful of well-regarded restaurants, three golf courses, and a variety of tennis courts and swimming pools. In 2016 the resort received five diamonds from AAA for the fortieth year in a row, making it the only hotel in North America to receive AAA’s top rating each year since the awards started.</p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-author--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-author.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-author.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-author field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-author"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-author">Author</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-author"><a href="/author/encyclopedia-staff" hreflang="und">Encyclopedia Staff</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-keyword--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-keyword.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-keyword.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-keyword field--type-entity-reference field--label-above" id="id-field-keyword"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-keyword">Keywords</div> <div class='field__items'> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/broadmoor-hotel" hreflang="en">broadmoor hotel</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/historic-hotels" hreflang="en">historic hotels</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/cheyenne-mountain" hreflang="en">cheyenne mountain</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/philip-anschutz" hreflang="en">Philip Anschutz</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/spencer-penrose" hreflang="en">spencer penrose</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/james-pourtales" hreflang="en">James Pourtales</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/broadmoor-casino" hreflang="en">Broadmoor Casino</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/frederick-sterner" hreflang="en">Frederick Sterner</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/manitou-cog-railway" hreflang="en">manitou cog railway</a></div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-keyword"><a href="/keyword/will-rogers-shrine-sun" hreflang="en">Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun</a></div> </div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links--inline.html.twig * links--node.html.twig * links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap_barrio/templates/navigation/links--inline.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-references-html--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-references-html.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-references-html.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-references-html field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-references-html"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-references-html">References</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-references-html"><p>Elena Bertozzi-Villa, <em>Broadmoor Memories: The History of the Broadmoor</em> (Missoula, MT: Pictorial Histories, 1993).</p><p>Helen M. Geiger, <em>The Broadmoor Story</em> (Colorado Springs, CO: Smith-Brooks, 1968).</p><p>Steve Raabe, <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2014/04/04/broadmoor-wins-kudos-on-basis-of-anschutzs-112-million-investments/">“Broadmoor Wins Kudos on Basis of Anschutz’s $112 Million Investments,”</a> <em>The Denver Post</em>, April 4, 2014.</p><p><a href="https://gazette.com/timeline-history-of-the-broadmoor/article/124987/">“Timeline: History of The Broadmoor,”</a> <em>Colorado Springs Gazette</em>, September 15, 2011.</p></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-additional-information-htm--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-additional-information-htm.html.twig * field--text-long.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-additional-information-htm field--type-text-long field--label-above" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"> <div class="field__label" id="id-field-additional-information-htm">Additional Information</div> <div class="field__item" id="id-field-additional-information-htm"><p><a href="https://www.broadmoor.com/">The Broadmoor</a></p><p>​Rocky Mountain PBS,&nbsp;<a href="https://video.rmpbs.org/video/2364990522/">"Spencer &amp; Julie&nbsp;Penrose,"</a>&nbsp;<em>Colorado Experience</em>, April 4, 2013.</p><p>Marshall Sprague, <em>Newport in the Rockies: The Life and Good Times of Colorado Springs</em>, 4th ed. (Athens, OH: Swallow Press, 1987).</p></div> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-4th-grade--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-4th-grade.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-4th-grade.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-4th-grade field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-field-4th-grade"><p>The Broadmoor opened near Colorado Springs in 1918. It was built at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain, and covers almost 3,000 acres. The Broadmoor has nearly 800 rooms, restaurants and other activities. The Broadmoor is rated as a top-level resort.</p><h2>Corn Brooms and Dairy Cows</h2><p>In the 1860s, when Colorado City was a supply town for miners, Colorado Springs had not yet been founded. The area that is now the Broadmoor was part of a 720-acre corn and wheat farm. The owner, Burton C. Myers, used his corn to make brooms that he sold in Colorado City.</p><p>In 1881 William Wilcox moved from Philadelphia to Colorado Springs to recover from tuberculosis. He bought the land to start a dairy farm called the Broadmoor Dairy Farm.</p><p>In 1885 Wilcox sold the farm to Count James Pourtales. He increased the farm size and added 200 new cows.</p><h2>Broadmoor City</h2><p><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="/image/first-broadmoor-casino"><img class="image-large" style="float:left;height:128px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Broadmoor%20Media%202_0.jpg?itok=tuANjAQL" alt="First Broadmoor Casino" width="480"></a>After 1887 the value of land in Colorado Springs land increased because the Colorado Midland Railway was completed. More people could travel to the Broadmoor in Colorado Springs. The property again changed hands when the estate of Winfield Scott Stratton bought all the Broadmoor land in 1909. Part of the land was used for the Myron Stratton Home for orphans and the elderly poor. The old hotel was leased to a girls’ school in 1913–14. It operated as a hotel in 1915.</p><h2>Building the Broadmoor</h2><p>In 1916 Spencer Penrose bought the old Broadmoor site. He planned a million-dollar hotel beside Cheyenne Lake. The Broadmoor opened to the public in June 1918.</p><h2>The Penrose Years</h2><p>Penrose’s Broadmoor opened just as people started taking vacations in their cars. Penrose kept improving the resort and creating new attractions nearby. In the mid-1920s, he built Cheyenne Mountain Road, Cheyenne Mountain Lodge, and the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. He also got the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway that went to the top of Pikes Peak.</p><p>By the late 1930s, Penrose had added the Broadmoor Ice Palace, Will Rogers Stadium, and the Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun.</p><p>After Penrose died in 1939, ownership of the hotel went to the El Pomar Foundation. The hotel continued to run through the El Pomar Foundation until 1988.</p><h2>Postwar Expansion</h2><p>After World War II, American economy boomed and vacation travel increased. The Broadmoor did well and it grew. Across Cheyenne Lake from the main building, the Broadmoor West was opened in 1976. The resort also developed a figure skating program. It added two golf courses in the 1960s and 1970s.</p><h2>Today</h2><p>In 1988 the El Pomar Foundation sold the Broadmoor. Over the next twenty years, the new owners expanded and renovated the hotel. In 1995 the Broadmoor West Tower opened.</p><p><a href="/image/broadmoor-hotel-1"><img style="float:right;height:372px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/NEW-Spencer-Penrose-Media-2.jpg" alt="Broadmoor Hotel Today" width="480"></a>In 2011 Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz bought the Broadmoor. The Broadmoor now has the Wilderness Experience, offering fancy rooms and adventures in natural settings.</p><p>The hotel continues to receive high ratings from guests, as it has every year for the past forty years.</p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-8th-grade--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-8th-grade.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-8th-grade.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-8th-grade field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-field-8th-grade"><p>The Broadmoor opened in 1918 just southwest of <strong>Colorado Springs</strong>. It was built at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain. Over time it has grown into a sprawling resort of roughly 3,000 acres. The Broadmoor has nearly 800 rooms, as well as restaurants and other resort activities. It is now owned by billionaire <strong>Philip Anschutz</strong>. The Broadmoor receives high ratings from various travel publications every year.</p><h2>Corn Brooms and Dairy Cows</h2><p>In the 1860s, Colorado City served as a supply town for mining ventures in the mountains. Colorado Springs had not yet been founded. The area that is now the Broadmoor was part of a 720-acre corn and wheat farm owned by Burton C. Myers. He used his corn to make brooms that he sold in Colorado City.</p><p>In 1881 William Wilcox moved from Philadelphia to Colorado Springs to recover from tuberculosis. He bought the Myers land to establish a dairy farm. He called his venture the Broadmoor Dairy Farm.</p><p>By 1885 Wilcox was in search of a buyer. He sold it to Count James Pourtales. He increased the farm’s size to 2,400 acres, acquired Cheyenne Creek water rights, built new barns, and bought 200 new cows.</p><h2>Broadmoor City</h2><p>Land values in Colorado Springs started rising after 1887 because of the completion of the <strong>Colorado Midland Railway</strong>. In 1888 Pourtales established the Cheyenne Lake, Land and Improvement Company.</p><p>In 1889 Pourtales combined all his sections of land, including the Broadmoor Dairy Farm, into the Broadmoor Land and Investment Company. He mapped out the 2,400-acre development.</p><p><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="/image/first-broadmoor-casino"><img class="image-large" style="float:left;height:128px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Broadmoor%20Media%202_0.jpg?itok=tuANjAQL" alt="First Broadmoor Casino" width="480"></a>In July 1891, the Broadmoor Casino opened on the east side of Cheyenne Lake. When the Colorado economy crashed during the Panic of 1893, Pourtales had to turn over all his Broadmoor property to the company that had given him a loan.</p><p>In 1909 the estate of <strong>Cripple Creek</strong> millionaire <strong>Winfield Scott Stratton</strong> bought all the Broadmoor land. Part of it was used for the <strong>Myron Stratton Home</strong> for orphans and the elderly poor. The old hotel was leased to a girls’ school in 1913–14. It operated as a hotel in 1915.</p><h2>Building the Broadmoor</h2><p>In April 1916, <a href="/article/spencer-penrose">Spencer Penrose</a> and others bought the site. Penrose had made a fortune in Cripple Creek gold and Utah copper, and he began planning a million-dollar hotel beside Cheyenne Lake. Construction on the hotel began in 1917, and The Broadmoor opened to the public in June 1918.</p><h2>The Penrose Years</h2><p>Penrose’s Broadmoor opened just as automobile tourism was becoming popular in the United States. It succeeded in part because Penrose was committed to improving the resort and creating new attractions nearby. In the mid-1920s, he built Cheyenne Mountain Road, Cheyenne Mountain Lodge, and the <strong>Cheyenne Mountain Zoo</strong>. He also acquired the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, which ferried visitors to the summit of <strong>Pikes Peak</strong>.</p><p>In 1932 Penrose became the only owner of the Broadmoor. By the late 1930s, Penrose added the Broadmoor Ice Palace, Will Rogers Stadium, and the <strong>Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun</strong> as nearby attractions.</p><p>After Penrose died in 1939, ownership of the hotel transferred to the Penroses’ recently established nonprofit, the <strong>El Pomar Foundation</strong>. The hotel continued to run through the El Pomar Foundation until 1988.</p><h2>Postwar Expansion</h2><p>After World War II, the American economy boomed and leisure travel increased. The Broadmoor prospered and expanded. Broadmoor West opened across Cheyenne Lake from the main building in 1976. The resort also developed a figure skating program and added two golf courses in the 1960s and 1970s.</p><h2>Today</h2><p>In 1988 the El Pomar Foundation sold the Broadmoor. Over the next two decades the new owners expanded and renovated the hotel. In 1995 the Broadmoor West Tower opened.</p><p><a href="/image/broadmoor-hotel-1"><img style="float:right;height:372px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/NEW-Spencer-Penrose-Media-2.jpg" alt="Broadmoor Hotel Today" width="480"></a>In 2011 the Denver-based billionaire Philip Anschutz bought the Broadmoor. Since then, he has invested more than $130 million in several large projects at the property. Because of the purchase of <strong>Seven Falls</strong> and development of properties on Cheyenne Mountain and in <strong>Pike National Forest</strong>, the Broadmoor has introduced the Wilderness Experience, offering luxury accommodations and adventures in natural settings.</p><p>The main Broadmoor complex now has nearly 800 rooms, a handful of restaurants, three golf courses, and a variety of tennis courts and swimming pools. The hotel continues to receive high ratings from travel magazines, as it has every year for the past forty years.</p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node--field-10th-grade--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--node--field-10th-grade.html.twig x field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig * field--field-10th-grade.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-field-10th-grade field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item" id="id-field-10th-grade"><p>The Broadmoor opened just southwest of <strong>Colorado Springs</strong> in 1918. It was built at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain, and has grown over the decades into roughly 3,000 acres. The Broadmoor has nearly 800 rooms, as well as restaurants and other accommodations. Now owned by billionaire <strong>Philip Anschutz</strong>, the Broadmoor receives high ratings from various travel publications.</p><h2>Corn Brooms and Dairy Cows</h2><p>In the 1860s, Colorado City served as a supply town for mining ventures in the mountains. Colorado Springs had not yet been founded. The area that is now the Broadmoor was part of a 720-acre corn and wheat farm owned by Burton C. Myers. Myers used his corn to make brooms that he sold in Colorado City.</p><p>In 1881 William Wilcox bought the Myers farm and 880 additional acres. Wilcox had moved from Philadelphia to Colorado Springs to recover from tuberculosis. He bought the land to establish a dairy farm, and called his venture the Broadmoor Dairy Farm.</p><p>By 1885 Wilcox was in search of a buyer or business partner. Luck brought him Count James Pourtales, a wealthy Prussian. He increased the farm’s size to 2,400 acres, acquired Cheyenne Creek water rights, built new barns, and bought 200 new cows.</p><h2>Broadmoor City</h2><p>Land values in Colorado Springs started rising after 1887, with the completion of the <strong>Colorado Midland Railway</strong>. Pourtales used 320 of his acres for development and in 1888 established the Cheyenne Lake, Land and Improvement Company.</p><p>&nbsp;In 1889 Pourtales combined all his local holdings, including the Broadmoor Dairy Farm, into a new venture called the Broadmoor Land and Investment Company.</p><p><a class="colorbox colorbox-insert-image" href="/image/first-broadmoor-casino"><img class="image-large" style="float:left;height:128px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Broadmoor%20Media%202_0.jpg?itok=tuANjAQL" alt="First Broadmoor Casino" width="480"></a>In July 1891, the Broadmoor Casino opened on the east side of Cheyenne Lake but the Panic of 1893 doomed Pourtales’s plans for the area. In the wake of the panic, he had to turn over all his Broadmoor property to the company that had given him a loan several years earlier.</p><p>In 1909 the estate of <strong>Cripple Creek</strong> millionaire <strong>Winfield Scott Stratton</strong> bought all the Broadmoor land. Part of it was used for the <strong>Myron Stratton Home</strong> for orphans and the elderly poor. The old hotel was leased to a girls’ school in 1913–14 and operated as a hotel in 1915.</p><h2>The Penrose Years</h2><p>In April 1916, mining mogul Spencer Penrose and others bought the site and began planning a million-dollar hotel beside Cheyenne Lake.</p><p>Construction on the hotel began in 1917. Meanwhile, Penrose acquired 800 more acres of land near the hotel, including the Horns on Cheyenne Mountain. After being designed and built at a cost of more than $2 million, the Broadmoor opened to the public in June 1918.</p><p>Penrose’s Broadmoor opened just as automobile tourism was becoming popular in the United States. It succeeded in part because Penrose was committed to enhancing the resort and developing new attractions nearby. In the mid-1920s, he built Cheyenne Mountain Road, Cheyenne Mountain Lodge, and the <strong>Cheyenne Mountain Zoo</strong>. He also acquired the Manitou and Pikes Peak Cog Railway, which took visitors to the summit of <strong>Pikes Peak</strong> and complemented the auto road he had already built to the summit.</p><p>In 1932 Penrose acquired sole ownership of the Broadmoor. By the late 1930s, Penrose added the Broadmoor Ice Palace, Will Rogers Stadium, and the <strong>Will Rogers Shrine of the Sun</strong> as nearby attractions.</p><p>After Penrose died in 1939, ownership of the hotel transferred to the Penroses’ recently established nonprofit, the <strong>El Pomar Foundation</strong>. The hotel continued to run through the El Pomar Foundation until 1988.</p><h2>Postwar Expansion</h2><p>As the post–World War II American economy boomed and leisure travel increased, the Broadmoor prospered and expanded. Broadmoor West opened across Cheyenne Lake from the main building in 1976, bringing the growing hotel’s room total to 560. In addition to increasing its accommodations, the resort also developed a figure skating program and added two golf courses in the 1960s and 1970s.</p><h2>Today</h2><p>In 1988 the El Pomar Foundation sold the Broadmoor, and over the next two decades the new owners invested in expansions and renovations at the hotel. In 1995 the Broadmoor West Tower opened.</p><p><a href="/image/broadmoor-hotel-1"><img style="float:right;height:372px;margin:15px;" src="/sites/default/files/NEW-Spencer-Penrose-Media-2.jpg" alt="Broadmoor Hotel Today" width="480"></a>In 2011 Denver billionaire Philip Anschutz bought the Broadmoor. The resort has since acquired <strong>Seven Falls</strong> and developed properties on Cheyenne Mountain and in <strong>Pike National Forest</strong>, allowing it to offer the Wilderness Experience, which features luxury accommodations and adventures in rustic settings.</p><p>The main Broadmoor complex now has nearly 800 rooms, a handful of restaurants, three golf courses, and a variety of tennis courts and swimming pools. In 2016 the resort received five diamonds from AAA for the fortieth year in a row, making it the only hotel in North America to receive AAA’s top rating each year since the awards started.</p></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/encyclopedia/templates/field/field--node--encyclopedia-article.html.twig' --> Fri, 26 Aug 2016 21:42:38 +0000 yongli 1782 at http://coloradoencyclopedia.org