Healy House

The bronze makes this a monument to the silver era, and for most of its working life it was a boardinghouse full of schoolteachers. August Meyer, whose ore works helped start Leadville's boom, built it in 1878 for his bride, Emma, and sold it in 1881. The Healys took in boarders. Nellie Healy, Daniel's cousin, came in 1892 to teach and later rented rooms to fellow teachers, and a third floor went on in the late 1890s. The plaque calls her only an agent for the heirs; she gave the house in 1936 on condition it serve the city.

What the plaque says

Property of the State of Colorado Healy House A Regional State Museum Erected 1878, by August R. Meyer, builder of Leadville's first reduction works. Given to the Leadville Historical Association, 1936, by Nellie Healy, agent for the heirs of Daniel Healy. Presented to the State of Colorado by said Association, 1947, and established as a monument to the silver mining era of the state, by The State Historical Society of Colorado and the Leadville Historical Association. Tablet from the William A. Braiden Marker Fund.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• South Park City Museum — 16 mi
  A mining town assembled in the 1950s from buildings hauled out of South Park's dying camps, by a Colorado Springs lawyer who wanted no imitation town.
• Independence Pass — 18 mi
  Crossed by prospectors on the Fourth of July 1879, opened as a toll road for the Aspen rush in 1881, and shut by snow half of every year since.

More markers nearby

• Tennessee Pass — 7.7 mi