President James B. Arthur of the Rocky Mountain Stucco and Manufacturing company, is in receipt of an elegantly embossed bronze medal accompanied by an elaborately engraved certificate, being the World’s Fair medal and certificate awarded his company for the excellence of its product and the enterprise shown in developing a new and important industry at Red Buttes, Wyoming. It is one of the tree medals awarded to Wyoming, and , naturally enough, Mr. Arthur feels very proud of it. The fame of the excellence of the products of the Rocky Mountain Stucco and Manufacturing Co. is extending to all parts of the country and the demand for its plaster of Paris and cement is daily on the increase.
Neighborhood Conservation Buffer /
Zoned NCB, Neighborhood Conservation Buffer. Many uses available for this zone.
Read MoreDenver architects commissioned for Fort Collins Arthur Residence /
In 1882, James B. Arthur commissioned Denver architects Nichols and Canman to design and build a mansion residence in the town of Fort Collins. At age 51, having made a fortune selling hay and raising cattle, it was time to move to town to pursue irrigation, gypsum and plaster, banking, sugar beet processing, brickmaking, and more.
Fort Collins Colorado Sugar Company /
The board of directors of the Fort Collins-Colorado Sugar company chosen at the annual meeting held in Denver on Wednesday, is the same as it was last year, namely: B.F. Hottel, J.A. Brown, F.C. Avery, and James B. Arthur of Fort Collins; M.D. Thatcher of Pueblo; C.W. Waterman, W.A. Dixon, C.S. Morey and Chas. Boettcher of Denver.
Henry Meyer, Frescoist, Fort Collins Courier, 1882 /
Mr. Henry Meyer, of Denver, a fresco artist of superior merit, arrived in town last evening. He comes to do the painting and fecoing on the James B. Arthur mansion, Mulberry street, on which he will commence work tomorrow. The job which Mr. Meyer has recently been engaged on, and which he has just completed, was the interior of the Colorado National bank, in Denver, which is pronounced the finest piece of frescoing in Colorado.
Denver architects, local Fort Collins builder /
In 1881, James and Mary Arthur began constructing their beautiful mansion in Old Town Fort Collins. They hired architects, Nichols & Canman out of Denver to design the place and local builder Richard Burke to oversee the construction.
James B. Arthur Runs for County Commissioner, 1886 /
In James B. Arthur, who asks for the suffrages of the pople for the office of county commissioner, the people have a man whose record all through life, public and private, will bear the closest scrutiny. He is peculiarly fitted by nature and education for this very responsible and highly important position, and it is conceded by republicans and democrats that the public will greatly promote their interests by electing him county commissioner.
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Location of the Arthur House
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