Fred A. Bemis Farmhouse, 6028 South Gallop Street (Moved from Original Site), Littleton, Arapahoe County, CO

1983 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention

Significance: It is named for its original owner, who brought the property in 1887 and built the house 3 years later. The Bemis family owned or leased the property until 1952, when Edwin Bemis (son of Fred Bemis) sold the property to the Intermountain Rural Electric Cooperative. The house was moved to its present location at the Littleton Historical Museum on February 21, 1975, when the co-op expanded its facilities on the property where the house once stood...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N766

Survey number: HABS CO-88

Building/structure dates: 1890 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1975 Subsequent Work

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1933 - 1970

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