The Colburn Hotel Apartments, Denver. Judge Ernest A. Colburn was elected County Judge in Colorado Springs in 1875. The Judge left the courts to stake his claim in a mine; in 1891 he made his fortune becoming one of Colorado’s first millionaires. In 1925, Colburn began construction of the Colburn Hotel in the midst of Prohibition and opened 1928. The Colburn was modelled after the Fairmount Hotel in St. Louis, Mo.
Colburn Hotel Apartments
