March 2019 Denver, Colorado

 

 

For a few days in March, 2019, my wife and I traveled to Denver, Colorado for a committee meeting.  We had a couple of days of free time and the opportunity to travel up to Boulder to visit the University of Colorado (where my father-in-law had attended).  For breakfast, I highly recommend the Buffs Restaurant in Boulder.

While in Denver we stayed at the historic Brown Palace Hotel and dined at the historic Buckhorn Exchange.

Buckhorn Exchange was established on November 17, 1893 as a saloon called “The Rio Grande Exchange.”  Theodore Roosevelt dined at the restaurant in 1905 after his Presidential Express train arrived in Denver. The restaurant contains over 500 mounted animals and trophy heads of every description, including an African Cape Buffalo shot by President Teddy Roosevelt.  As of 2018, five U.S. presidents have dined at Buckhorn Exchange, and at least one unknown college professor.

The Brown Palace was built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite and past guests have included:  the “Unsinkable” Molly Brown (she stayed at the hotel only a week after the Titanic disaster), the   infamous Sun Yat Sen (just before becoming the president of China), The Beatles and Presidents Taft, Harding, Truman, Eisenhower, Reagan and Clinton.