William Allen White Cabins, Bear Lake Road, Estes Park, Larimer County, CO

Significance: William Allen White was a newspaper publisher of great renown, a writer, a novelist, an advisor of presidents, reformer, political liberal, and a prime mover in Theodore Roosevelt's Progressive party. He first came to Estes Park area as a young man in 1889 and here, according to him, he "grew up and became a man." Throughout his life he came back to the area year after year, for the summers here refreshed him and renewed the wellsprings of this great man.

He acquired the cabin, apparently in 1912 and in the following year added the porch, the sleeping cabins and the study. Here the great and near great visited him, including presidential candidate Charles Evans Hughes, social worker Jane Addams, William Jennings Bryan, and Clarence Darrow. During the summer he worked in his small work-cabin and wrote parts of his novels and magazine articles.
Survey number: HABS CO-63
Building/structure dates: 1887-1913 Initial Construction
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001944