John & Elivera Doud House
Denver County
The 1905 John and Elivera Doud House is associated with the lives of two persons of local and national significance - Dwight David Eisenhower and Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Mamie grew to adulthood in the house as part of the Doud family. The family moved into the house in 1906, when Mamie was nine. The 1905 John and Elivera Doud House is associated with the lives of two persons of local and national significance - Dwight David Eisenhower and Mamie Doud Eisenhower. Mamie grew to adulthood in the house as part of the Doud family. The family moved into the house in 1906, when Mamie was nine.
John & Elivera Doud House
In 1916 she married army lieutenant Dwight Eisenhower in the first-floor music room. Over the following decades through the beginning of World War II, the couple visited the family home in Denver at every opportunity. After the war, the couple returned for extended visits during the Eisenhowers’ final years as a military family and their eight years as president and first lady of the United States. The couple spent long winter and summer vacations at the residence and Dwight often used the house as the starting point for fishing trips into the Colorado Rockies.