Remembering stone houses in his native Switzerland, he ordered several railroad cars’ worth of South Platte Canyon granite to build this 4,300-square-foot, two-and-a-half-story home for his growing family.  The 1890 residence exemplifies Germanic building techniques and style.  Shortly after completing this country home, Bruderlin died in a train accident.  His family subsequently had to sell the home, which became a boarding house until its abandonment in the 1960s.

SHF awarded $150,000 in grants to the Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO), which raised another $350,000 to restore the most prominent building on the banks of Barr Lake.  SHF grants helped restore and rehabilitate plumbing, heating, plaster, and paint, as well as make the facility accessible to the disabled.  Today, the building houses the RMBO that keeps watch on some 330 different species of birds seen at Barr Lake.