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Astor House: Learn About Golden's Temperance Boardinghouse

The legend of Golden's first hotel and historic boarding house, built in 1867, will be presented at Golden Community Center.

GOLDEN, CO -- The Golden History Museum & Park may be closed for a remodeling makeover, but the thirst for history lives on in the first territorial capital. You can quench that thirst by learning about the Astor House, Golden's historic stone hotel from the earliest years of the pioneer era.

Nathan Richie, the museum's director will present "Astor House: Life after the Territorial Capital" at the Golden Community Center on March 1.

The pioneer inn was built of distinctive sandstone in 1867 by a Baptist innkeeper who kept the place under strict temperance standards. The inn housed Colorado's early lawmakers in the pre-Centennial era. When the City of Denver stole the capital designation from Golden, Astor House evolved into a boarding house and community meeting place that kept running until the early 1970s.

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Now listed on the Registry of Historic Places, Astor House was an early example of historic preservation in Golden.

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"Astor House: Life after the Territorial Capital" presentation by Nathan Richie

DATE & TIME: Thursday, March 1, 2018 6-7:30 p.m.

LOCATION: Golden Community Center in the Beaver Brook Room

1470 10th St, Golden, CO 80401

(720) 545-8818

COST: $Members free; $10 non-members.

Registration is required - program will be canceled if minimum attendance number is not reached 24 hours prior to start time

Image via Golden History Museum & Park

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