NORVELL HOUSE (2006)
Craig Residence Rehabilitation, Preservation, and Addition
Built: 1910
The Norvell House exemplifies the development and heritage of Routt County and is associated with James Lafayette Norvell, an early settler, rancher and cattle dealer, and considered the County’s first entrepreneur and developer who lived in the Craftsman style bungalow during the productive years of his life. He became a well-known figure throughout Colorado known as the ‘Preacher Cowboy’. He was elected Mayor of Steamboat Springs in 1914. The one-and-a-half story, horizontal wood-drop-sided, rectangular house, built in 1910 and owned by Norvell until 1920, has the characteristic gabled roof; wide, overhanging eaves; dormers; decorative shingling, and full porch with square columns of the Arts and Crafts era that was popular in the area from 1910 through the 1920s. It retains its architectural integrity and remains a private residence to this day. The Craig’s restored the original house and added an addition to the house in 2006 maintaining the historical integrity of the original structure.
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