National and State Register

Meeker House (Meeker Memorial Museum)

Weld County

Nathan C. Meeker, founder of Union Colony, later known as Greeley, built the two-story adobe structure in 1870. 

A picture of the house with hipped roof and brown sidings.

Meeker House (Meeker Memorial Museum) 

Meeker had been the agricultural editor for Horace Greeley's newspaper, the New York Tribune, and he acted on his supervisor’s famous pronouncement "to go west young man."