Glen Eyrie Treasures

Title: Glen Eyrie Treasures

Type: Segment Subject(s): Visual, Cultural Arts, Museum Exhibit, Textiles Project Contact: Name: Jeffrey Dallet Company: Rocky Mountain PBS Email: [email protected] Original Broadcast/Publish Date: 11/15/2019 Runtime: 00:06:04 Main Asset File Size: 2.34 GB Short Description: IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO ONE COMES ACROSS AN ENGLISH TUDOR-STYLE CASTLE CALLED GLEN EYRIE. BUILT IN THE EARLY 1870S, THE ESTATE IS RICH WITH HISTORY, ARCHITECTURAL SPLENDOR, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. Long Description: IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO ONE COMES ACROSS AN ENGLISH TUDOR-STYLE CASTLE CALLED GLEN EYRIE. BUILT IN THE EARLY 1870S, THE ESTATE IS RICH WITH HISTORY, ARCHITECTURAL SPLENDOR, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY.

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TC In Lower Third In Cue 00:00:41 Matt Mayberry ...so powerful is, you know... Director Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum 00:00:47 Anna Cordova The Garden of the Gods Lead Archaeologist landscape... City of Colorado Springs 00:00:57 Michael Prouty ...and granite that were Senior Project Archaeologist actually... Alpine Archaeological Consultants

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00:03:14 Susan Fletcher You can't tell a lot about one Director of History and Archives particular family... The Navigators 00:04:48 Leah Davis Witherow ...that's where it's power lies... Curator of History Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Production Credits: RMPBS/Glen Eyrie Treasures Producer/Director/Writer/Editor Kate Perdoni

Videographers Frank Bokoski Kai Cintorino Eric Hernandez Kate Perdoni

Drone Pilot Eric Hernandez

Archival Materials Pikes Peak Library District, Special Collections Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum Anna Cordova Denver Public Library, Western History Collection Library of Congress National Archives Alpine Archaeological Consultants Springs TV Cold Open AN ARCHITECTURAL AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL TREASURE Lead IN COLORADO SPRINGS, COLORADO ONE COMES ACROSS A REMARKABLE ENGLISH TUDOR-STYLE CASTLE CALLED GLEN EYRIE. BUILT IN THE EARLY 1870S, THE ESTATE IS RICH WITH HISTORY, ARCHITECTURAL SPLENDOR, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOVERY. HERE’S THE STORY. Tag INTERESTED IN VISITING GLEN EYRIE? GO TO GLEN-EYRIE-DOT-ORG TO LEARN MORE. Transcript - [Matt] It's this rugged place at the foot of the Rocky Mountains with an English-style castle right in the heart of it. It's a little shocking the first time you come to the grounds. - [Leah] It's so beautifully constructed. It almost is perfection, and it looks like it’s been here for hundreds of years. I think the way that you come into Glen Eyrie on this winding road, up a canyon, and there at the back, this castle is situated, looking like it's always been here. - The thing that makes Glen Eyrie Canyon so powerful is, you know, it's

2 / 5 part of the same geology as Garden of the Gods. - The Garden of the Gods landscape consists, of course, of the large, famous red rock formations. - There are different colors of sandstones and conglomerates and granite that were actually uplifted during the mountain building process of Pike's Peak. So, as the mountain built, the sandstones got tilted vertically. - [Matt] You don't really see sandstone spires until you get here. The canyon opens up to you as you arrive at the castle and continues on. - [Anna] It's a beautiful place, and it draws many many people and always has. - [Kate] One person enraptured by the views was General William Jackson Palmer, who came to the region on a railroad surveying trip in 1869. After marrying his wife, Queen, they returned to the area and soon began construction on their dream home. - [Leah] John Blair, the landscape architect, saw an eagle's nest or an eyrie on the side of a beautiful rock here and gave the name Glen Eyrie to the space. - The carriage house at Glen Eyrie was built in 1871. It was the first building built on the property, and William and his new wife, Queen, lived in the upper stories while they were waiting for their main house to be built. The original Glen Eyrie was a Gothic-style house, and it was built in the form of a Latin cross. And it had about 27 rooms, and it was built on the banks of Camp Creek that flows from the mountains down the Glen Eyrie Valley. - [Kate] Years of expansions and renovations created the estate we know today. After Palmer's death, Glen Eyrie was eventually purchased by The Navigators, an international ministry, becoming a conference center. The region has long been affected by natural disasters, including fires and floods. While surveying a site flood mitigation work, the city of Colorado Springs' lead archeologist, Anna Cordova, stumbled upon something left behind. The site of Palmer's trash dump. This is where one man's trash became a treasure for local historians. - Context is everything in archeology, and I started thinking of, you know, what am I close to? Who was living in this area at the time? - [Susan] An archeology dig of this nature is actually very rare. - [Anna] To find more about Palmer over a hundred years after he's gone. - It's once in a lifetime. - You can't tell a lot about one particular family in a public dump because

3 / 5 lots of families are putting their trash in those places. The really unique thing about this site is that everything that's out there we know came from this estate, which it was apparently a really rare thing in archeology. - The number of artifacts that we actually recovered were about 65,000. We have looked at every one of those artifacts. We have recovered and identified probably at least 50 different types of ceramics, buttons, forks, knives, cooking utensils, cups, stemware, liquor bottles, pipes, flower pots, lots of different animal bones, wooden furniture pieces, just identified a tree cleat, which was really interesting. A cleat that you attach to the toe so you could climb the trees. There's also industrial items so a fire hose. We also have bottles that went into early fire extinguishers. Photographic equipment so we have dark room elements. There's a lot of medicinal things too, as well as medicine bottles, medicine jars, vials for homeopathic type of medicines. - And a lot of people ask why we care about trash, why it matters, but trash can tell you a whole lot about households and people. It can speak sometimes even to ethnicity, socioeconomic status, to gender. It can answer so many questions that will talk about the daily lives of these people. So, what they ate, what they wore, what they read. - It's unedited, and that's where its power lies because it's literally the raw material of their lives out here at Glen Eyrie. - For example, we now know that Palmer really liked Worcestershire sauce. - Apparently, there are many many Worcestershire bottles. - We're seeing very few items in the scheme of thousands that we've looked at that are domestically produced. Most everything that we're finding is being imported. I think that's another evidence of his wealth. - I've got some mineral water from Budapest even though he had some mineral water right next door in Manatee Springs. As far as historic archeology goes, it's probably one of the most significant finds that we've had definitely in Colorado Springs in the Pike's Peak region. Archeology is important in that it connects us to the past. I think that helps people to form connections with those places, and I think if you're connected to those places, you take care of them more as well. - [Leah] Having an English Tudor castle in the Colorado hillside helps remind

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us how people have continued to reshape Colorado over time in their own vision. This place remains as a symbol of those dreams, visions, and ideas of that founding generation of Colorado settlement.