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Call Number	X-727
Title	The Towers, palatial home of J. Maurice Finn, Cripple Creek
Summary	Exterior view of Jonah Maurice Finn's residence, Placer Street and Pikes Peak Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; nicknamed "The Towers" or "Finn's Folly"; palatial twenty-six room mansion was completed by 1901 and torn down in 1920; features include multi-gabled roof, three stories with dormers, one turret or tower per corner of house with bay windows, main double-wide entry way through corner turret, covered proches attached to side entrances with balustrades, straight stairs and railings, scalloped shingles and vertical wooden frame siding, transoms, widows' walk or belvedere, and stone foundation or lattice covered foundation area; little girl stands on top step of porch.
Date	[between 1901 and 1920]
Notes	Formerly negative F34714.; Source or donor's stamp on back of photoprint: Dow Helmers 3030 Leslie Drive Colorado Springs, Colo. 80909.; Title from printed label on back of photoprint.; R7100007273
Physical Description	1 copy photonegative ; 10 x 13 cm. (4 x 5 in.); 1 photoprint ; 12 x 17 cm. (4 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.)
Subject	Finn, Jonah Maurice--Homes & haunts. Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1920. Houses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1920.
Source	Source: Dow Helmers, March 31, 1976
Rights	Restrictions applying to use or reproduction of this image available from the Western History/Genealogy Dept., Denver Public Library.
Reproduction Available for Purchase	Yes (digital reproduction)
Type of Material	Film negatives.; Photographic prints.; Imaged.; Image
Format-Medium	Photograph
Identifier	F34714 DPLW
Filename	10000727.TIF

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