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Historic Photos from the Denver Library Web Site
(search for "Estamere" and "Estemere")
Reproduced by permission of the Denver Library

Postcard.  Looking north.  Rockland Hotel in foreground, Estemere just left of center.  About 1890.	"Road--Palmer Lake" No date	1893
1930	"El Conejo Blanco students at work with their looms" 1937	"The White Rabbit" 1937
1948	1948	1948
1948		1948

Historical Photos

1929 H.H. Nininger, head of the "Rocky Mountain Summer School" at Estemere.  (Courtesy of Margaret Huss.)	Copy of a page from the 1929 yearbook of the Rocky Mountain Summer School.  (Courtesy of Margaret Huss.)	1935 "Estemere Lodge" pamphlet. (Courtesy of Margaret Huss.)
Painting of Estemere by Margaret Huss.   Used by permission of the artist.	Margaret Huss, daughter of H.H. Nininger, visits Estemere 26 July 2000.	Photo of postcard showing Estemere taken from the hillside NW of the Estate.  No date.
Copy of an old photo showing the original Carriage House before the right half was removed.	Copy of a great early view (probably late 1880s) of Palmer Lake taken from the mountain east of town.  Note Estemere just above right center and the Rockland Hotel just above left center.  The rock wall around Estemere is plainly visible.	Undated postcard of the "Palmer Lake Cafe," now "O'Malley's."
Copy of photo.  Probably late 1940s.  Note absence of upstairs porches.  Why were they removed?  Replaced in 1960s by Leonards.	Undated photo donated by Tillie McCarty.	Marilyn Romack and friend.  (Friends of Tillie's daughter.)  Donated by Tillie McCarty.
Copy of photo showing an old garage that is long gone.  Undated.	On 17 July 2000 Jim Sawatzki, the Dalton family, and I visited the Greenmont Cemetery.  Jim thinks Dr. Thompson's remains are buried here.  Indeed, Dr. Thompson's sister, Mrs. C.A.J. Berry, said he was interred there.	Copy of photo showing unidentified young man with snowman in front of the East Wing.  Undated.
"The Sundance Cafe" Copy of an old postcard.  This is now the Villa Restaurant.		Pillsbury House circa 1886 (four houses down the street from The Estemere).  Dr. Thompson and his wife and daughter are in the buggy.  Thanks to Larry Meyer (who currently owns the Pillsbury House) for the photo.