Rosemount Museum

{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Infobox museum | name = Rosemount Museum | native_name = | native_name_lang = | logo = | logo_upright = | logo_alt = | logo_caption = | image = File:Rosemount.JPG | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | map_type = | map_relief = | map_size = | map_caption = | coordinates = {{Coord|38|16|50|N|104|36|43.5|W|display=inline,title}} | former_name = | established = {{Start date|1969}} | dissolved =  | location = 419 West 14th Street<br />[[Pueblo, Colorado]], US | type = [[Historic house museum]] | accreditation = | key_holdings = [[Mummy#Egyptian mummies|Egyptian mummy]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Digging For The Truth: 7 Things You Might Not Know About Mummies |url=http://www.aplacecalledroam.com/home/digging-for-the-truth7-things-you-might-not-know-about-mummies |website=APlaceCalledRoam.com |accessdate=22 March 2019 |date=29 January 2014 |quote=Until 1946, tourists to Egypt could buy a mummy as a souvenir. Andrew McClelland, a wealthy businessman from Pueblo, Colorado purchased the mummies we saw in Denver's Mummy Exhibit (they are currently on loan from Pueblo's Rosemont Museum) in 1904 while touring the world. Wishing to share his experiences with people at home, he shipped the mummies back to Pueblo, where they were put on display with other "curiosities" - objects bought during his travels.}}</ref> | collections = | collection_size = | visitors = | founder = | executive_director = Deb Darrow<ref name="PuebloPulp1">{{cite news |last1=Knuth |first1=Sara |title=A Christmas Ago |url=https://pueblopulp.com/christmas-ago-rosemount-museum-pueblo-victorian/ |accessdate=22 March 2019 |work=PuebloPulp.com |date=11 December 2014}}</ref> | leader_type = | leader = | director = | president = | ceo = | chairperson = | curator = | historian = | owner = | public_transit = | parking = | network = | website = {{URL|rosemount.org}} | embedded = {{Infobox NRHP | embed = yes  | name = Rosemount | coordinates = {{coord|38|16|50|N|104|36|43.5|W}} | locmapin = USA Colorado | area = {{convert|5|acre|ha}} | built = {{Start date|1893}} | builder = McGonigle<ref name="NRoHPI-NF">{{cite web |title=National Register of Historic Places Inventory - Nomination Form |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/d8a91734-3117-40f9-9528-540298842a75 |website=npgallery.nps.gov |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref> | architect = [[Henry Hudson Holly]]<ref name="NPGDAMS">{{cite web |title=NPGallery Digital Asset Management System |url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/AssetDetail/NRIS/74000592 |website=npgallery.nps.gov |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref> | architecture = [[Victorian architecture#North America|Late Victorian]]<ref name="NPGDAMS" /><br />[[Richardsonian Romanesque]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wommack |first1=Linda |title=Historic Colorado Mansions & Castles |date=11 November 2014 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781625852861 |language=English |chapter=Chapter 8: ROSEMOUNT—PUEBLO—1893 - The Rose of Pueblo |quote=As Holly's design of a grand mansion in the popular Richardsonian Romanesque style of the era began, the landscaping was well underway.}}</ref><br />[[Queen Anne style architecture in the United States|Queen Anne]]<ref>{{cite book |last1=Holly |first1=Henry |title=Holly's Picturesque Country Seats: A Complete Reprint of the 1863 Classic |date=1993 |publisher=Courier Corporation |isbn=9780486278568 |quote=Perhaps best described as a 37-room Queen Anne mansion struggling against the rising tide of Richardsonian Romanesque.}}</ref> | added = July 30, 1974 | refnum = 74000592 }} }}

The '''Rosemount Museum''', pronounced "Rosemont"<ref>{{cite book |last1=Garcia Simms |first1=Charlene |last2=Sanchez Tucker |first2=Maria |last3=DeHerrera |first3=Jeffrey |title=Pueblo |date=Jan 16, 2017 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781439659120}}</ref> is a [[historic house museum]] in [[Pueblo, Colorado|Pueblo]], [[Colorado]], it is situated on a square block at the corner of one of the highest points in north Pueblo<ref name="NRoHPI-NF" /> and across the street from [[UCHealth Parkview Medical Center]]. It is a 24,000-square-foot, three story mansion with attic and basement and contains thirty-seven rooms. It was begun in 1891 and completed in 1893 for John A. Thatcher and his family.<ref name="Society of Architectural Historians">{{cite web |title=Rosemount Mansion (Thatcher Mansion) |url=https://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PE16 |website=Sah-archipedia.org |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref> A 6,000-square-foot [[carriage house]] was also built on the property.<ref name="Pueblo 101" />

== History == John Thatcher moved from [[Pennsylvania]] to Colorado, where he prospered in the [[dry goods]] business before branching into banking, mining, and cattle ranching. He married Margaret Ann Henry of Platteville, WI in 1866. Built with pink [[Rhyolite]] volcanic rock for the exterior and a multitude of different woods for the interior; cherry, mahogany, maple and oak, the mansion housed the Thatcher family for decades. John, the patriarch of the family passed in 1913 and his last living child, Raymond C. Thatcher died in 1968.

After Raymond's death the mansion was donated to the city of Pueblo who in turn donated the property to the Metropolitan Museum Association. In 1969 a public trust was established by the Thatcher family for the creation of a [[nonprofit]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Rosemount Museum |url=https://www.coloradononprofits.org/membership/nonprofit-member-directory/nonprofit/3367 |website=ColoradoNonprofits.org |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref> house museum.<ref name="HCM&C">{{cite book |last1=Wommack |first1=Linda |title=Historic Colorado Mansions & Castles |date=2014 |publisher=Arcadia Publishing |isbn=9781625852861 |chapter=Chapter 8: ROSEMOUNT—PUEBLO—1893 - The Rose of Pueblo}}</ref>

Rosemount along with the Goodnight Barn were the first places in [[Pueblo County, Colorado|Pueblo County]] added to the [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Pueblo County, Colorado|National Register of Historic Places]]. Both were added on July 30, 1974.

== Collection == The house and most of its furnishings remain as they were when the family lived there.<ref name="NRoHPI-NF" /><ref name="FCM1">{{cite news |last1=Lampe |first1=Nel |title=Rosemount Museum: One of the nation’s finest Victorian-era mansions |url=http://www.fortcarsonmountaineer.com/2015/04/rosemount-museum-one-of-the-nations-finest-victorian-era-mansions/ |accessdate=22 March 2019 |work=FortCarsonMountaineer.com |date=2 April 2015}}</ref>

The third floor houses the Andrew McClelland collection of artifacts. McClelland was a wealthy [[business magnate|magnate]] and acquaintance of the family. He gathered the artifacts on his travels around the world including an Egyptian mummy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=DuVal |first1=Linda |title=Pueblo mansion features craftsmanship - and mummy/Rosemount was wonder in its day |url=http://more.ppld.org:8080/SpecialCollections/Index/ArticleOrders/200164.pdf |accessdate=22 March 2019 |work=daily.gazette.com |date=26 May 1996}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Egyptian Mummies |url=https://www.dmns.org/visit/exhibitions/egyptian-mummies/ |website=dmns.org |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref><ref name="Pueblo 101">{{cite news |last1=Fontenay |first1=Blake |title=Pueblo 101: Rosy visit to the Rosemount Museum |url=https://www.chieftain.com/881bd972-5c19-5d8d-a984-0fec11bab001.html |accessdate=22 March 2019 |work=[[The Pueblo Chieftain]] |date=10 February 2018}}</ref>

==Media== * The interior of the Rosemount appears in the [[Terrence Malick]] directed film, [[Badlands (film)|Badlands]]. Where it serves as the interior of the rich man's (portrayed by [[John Carter (actor)|John Carter]]) house.<ref name="CLR">{{cite web |last1=Hunt |first1=Holly |title=Badlands Revisited |url=http://calitreview.com/16289/badlands-revisited/ |website=CaLitReview.com |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref> * The Rosemount is featured in [[A&E (TV channel)|A&E]]'s [[America's Castles]] in the episode "Frontier Castles" which originally aired in August 1994.<ref>{{cite web |title=America's Castles (TV Series) Frontier Castles (1994) |url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1124471/plotsummary?ref_=tt_ov_pl |website=[[IMDb]] |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref> * The Rosemount is profiled in [[HGTV]]'s "Christmas Castles" in an episode that aired December 24, 1999.<ref>{{cite web |title=Christmas Castles |url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/christmas-castles/episodes/429756/ |website=[[TV Guide]] |accessdate=22 March 2019}}</ref>

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons category|Rosemount (Pueblo, Colorado)}} * [http://rosemount.org/ Rosemount.org]

[[Category:Museums established in 1969]] [[Category:Museums in Pueblo County, Colorado]] [[Category:Tourist attractions in Pueblo, Colorado]] [[Category:Houses in Colorado]] [[Category:Houses completed in 1893]] [[Category:National Register of Historic Places in Pueblo, Colorado]]