This House sits on Route 24 just outside of Leadville, Colorado. In the Summer of 2001 2 buddies and I drove from Cincinnati to Vail to take my buddy’s sister her Jeep. So, three fellas all well over 6 feet tall and their stuff in the middle of the summer in a Jeep. Does not sound like much fun but it was an absolute blast. Except for one thing my buddy had a pair of sandal that got wet at the beginning of the trip. They then smelled to high heaven we stopped at this random house on the way and as I distracted my buddy, my other buddy snatched the sandals and launched them into this house.
There was a bit more roof structure at the time than in the pictures.
So my buddy sent me these pics asking if I recalled the house. Of course I did. He said the sandals were not found. They likely disintegrated at some point over the last 19 years.

Never really thought about the back story to this place.

Does anyone know the backstory?? Seems pretty much untouched aside from the roof falling in over the last 19 years and who knows how long it was there before that.
There are no historical markers or anything around it that we ever found. Did some googling tonight but came up with nothing.

In typical fashion there pretty much is nothing that SF doesn’t know so I figure I would ask you all.

I don’t know anything about it except that I used to drive by it regularly when going to Ski Cooper. I’ll ask around, but I suspect that it was a late 19th century miner’s cabin like countless others around Leadville. There was not as much (any?) mining in that area, though, so? It’s in better condition than most, probably because it was on a main road and not subject to so much common vandalism. Perhaps it was occupied later as well.


Google Earth: 39.349691, -106.326682

It's a ways from Leadville, but for a moment I thought you were asking about this house:

https://realcoloradotravel.com...-interstate-70/5713/

Don't know anything about that one but I built a cabin like it in the mountains behind Purgatory near Durango in the summer of '79. That was an experience of a lifetime.

It would be interesting to pull the property records for that piece of land. Without a physical address or property description it would be difficult.

I love the Old West, the sights and history of such things. I intend to spend my retirement time roaming around that area and most of the West.
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I too plan on retiring there and exploring, beautiful country!!

I don't know much about it, but I did find a pair of sandals there once.

Very interesting. This guy on Flickr has more detailed photos of the cabin in question. I can't dig up any more info about.

Black,
I'm pretty sure that I have a picture of me and my son standing next to my 1996 Corvette that was taken in front of that cabin. We were participating in a Vette Net Southwest gathering one summer. That was many years ago. But, I know nothing about the cabin itself.
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I hope to get back there next summer. It will be 20 years since my 1st visit.

Only three more payments and it's mine! (Saw that on a postcard of an abandoned shack once.)

Cabin just north of Leadville:

39.349838,-106.3268792

is what the Lat/Lon appear to be.