Address: 1059 9th Street, Denver, CO 80204
Description: CU Denver English Department
Built in 1880 by William B. Rundle, the manager of the Colorado Electric Company, this mansard structure has perhaps the most impressive architectural credentials of the Ninth Street houses. Famed downtown Denver commercial architect, Frank Edbrooke, the architect of the Tabor Block and the Tabor Grand Opera House, added the second story and mansard roof sometime between 1880-90.
The mansard roof line establishes annual patterns that are now punctuated by the metal panels and dormer windows. The porch posts and brackets are definitive Victorian. The front room has only original ceiling medallion left on Ninth Street. The back porch screen is called "Philadelphia lattice."
The land under this structure was one time owned by J. K. Mullen. His brother, Patrick, owned 1086 from 1902-18.