Call NumberDPL-2021-282Alternate TitleOfficial National Better Home No.2 Built and Designed By Scott R. SchobeCreatorDudley, RogerDateMar 17, 2021SummaryThis sign hangs in the garage at 617 S. Vine Street in Denver, Colorado in the East Washington Park neighorhood. The home was built by Scott R. Schobe in 1927. Schobe built a number of homes in the East Washington Park neighborhood as well as in the Bonnie Brae neighborhood just across South University Boulevard. Schobe was born in French Creek, West Virginia on June 26, 1890. His parents were Charles W. and Florence McAvoy Schobe, both of them born in West Virginia. Scott first appeared in a Denver City Directory in 1913, residing at 1059 S. High St., where he still resided in 1914. In the 1915 Directory he was living at 1175 S. Gaylord. Scott’s 1917 draft registration card indicates his reason for moving to Colorado. He is listed as a self-employed building contractor, single, with “tubercular” noted as grounds for exemption. An unusual additional statement is made; “He is not at all physically strong.” In 1919 he was residing at 925 S. Gaylord; still listed in the Denver City Directory as a contractor. In the 1920 U.S. Census Scott is boarding at 1293 S. Williams, in the home of Ernest E. Taylor, a Western Union electrician, along with his wife and 29-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, a stenographer at an oil company. On March 29, 1923, Scott married Elizabeth Taylor, in Golden, Jefferson County. Apparently, he had hired her as his secretary at some point, since he told his neighbors that he “married his secretary.” She was born October 26, 1890 at Natick, MA. He was often listed in HouseholderDirectories at an address he was building with a separate indication of where he resided. One of the homes he built, at 623 S. Vine, had been sold; but as the Great Depression deepened, Schobe and his wife repossessed the home in 1929 or 1930 and moved there from 1293 S. Williams where they had lived since their marriage. They remained in that home until he died in 1974 and Elizabeth stayed there until her death in 1985. They had no children. By 1927, her parents, Ernest and Edith Taylor, moved into one of the homes Scott had built at 734 S. Vine. It is likely that he bought plans for the homes he built, rather than designing them himself. At some point he stopped building homes and started investing. Among these investments was a building called the Tuscan Apartments at 955 Washington. It was supposed to be the Tucson Apartments but a typo changed not just the spelling but the continent of origin. Scott was one of three brothers; he was the middle one; another child born into their family died before 1900. His younger brother, Harold –also a home builder - moved just up the street from him at 637 S. Vine with his first wife, Mabel Hendrickson (1919) and his second wife, Susie Fancher (1936). Leslie was the oldest son. He was a racehorse trainer in Jefferson County Kentucky.Physical Description1 digital image (1 jpeg) : color ; 1.8 MBBorn-Digital or AnalogAnalogSubjectSchobe, Scott, 1890-1974--Homes and hauntsGeographic AreaWashington Park (Denver, Colo.)CollectionPhotographs - Western HistoryType of MaterialColor photographsDigital photographsDonorRoger Dudley
Dudley, Roger, 617 S. Vine Street, Denver, CO: Built and Designed By Scott R. Schobe (Mar 17, 2021). Denver Public Library Digital Collections, accessed 18/05/2025, https://digital.denverlibrary.org/nodes/view/1134626
