National and State Register

Midway House / Meyer Ranch

Jefferson County

Built in 1889, the vernacular Queen Anne style Midway House played an important role in transportation history, serving as a stopping point on the stagecoach route from Denver to Fairplay. 

A corner view of the house with cross hipped gables covered porch and red window shutters.

Midway House / Meyer Ranch (1983 photograph.)

Located midway between Denver and Bailey, the clapboard sided two-story dwelling was constructed with square nails and rough-sawn lumber milled on the property.  A surviving 1870 hay and stock barn has walls of rough-cut board-and-batten, with some of the boards measuring sixteen inches in width. 

National Register

Address

9345 US Hwy. 285, Conifer vicinity

Site Number

5JF.303