Meeker Home Museum

Biography

1324 9th Ave., Greeley, Colorado. __"This vernacular Italianate style house was built in 1870 for Greeley’s town founder Nathan Meeker. Meeker lived in the house from 1870 until 1878, when he left Greeley to serve as an Indian Agent for the White River Utes in northwestern Colorado. He was killed in a massacre in 1879, and his wife and daughter Josephine, who were living there with him, were taken captive, to be released several weeks later. Meeker’s wife daughters lived in the house, with daughter Rozene staying until 1910, when she sold it to Stanley Davis. The earliest example of preservation in Greeley, the City purchased the property and opened the city’s first museum in 1929. The house currently serves as one of four municipal museums." __ __House history in Public Note. Greeley Historic Register. “Greeley Historic Register.” http://greeleygov.com/HistoricPreservation/Documents/GHRhistoricalinfo96to11online.pdf. National Registoer of Historic Places. ''Colorado - Weld County.'' http://www.nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/co/Weld/state.html

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