Astor House Museum

Clear Creek History Park is located at 822 12th St, Golden, CO. This location is in the Golden Proper neighborhood. This business specializes in Outdoor Parks and Tourist Attractions.

Several teas and other special events are held here during the year. The building can also be rented for private celebrations.

This park interprets the Golden area circa 1843–1900 via restored structures and reproductions, including a tepee, prospector's camp, one-room schoolhouse, and cabins. It is also populated with live chickens and bees. On select days, guides in period clothing lead 45-minute tours, but you can stroll the park and peek into the buildings anytime.

The building has gone from upscale hotel to boarding house to dorms and finally a museum. Most of the space is dedicated to showing off the boarding house. Also of interest are the quilts from the 1880s, a roll-top desk belonging to former Postmaster Horace Tabor and the 1890s kitchen. The museum also houses a Victorian Gift Shop that sells collectibles, cookbooks, calendars, jams, candles and children's stuffed animals made from antique quilts that can no longer be repaired.

In Short
The building has gone from upscale hotel to boarding house to dorms and finally a museum. Most of the space is dedicated to showing off the boarding house. Also of interest are...

Constructed in 1867 by Seth Lake, the Astor House was the first stone hotel built west of the Mississippi River. It provided lodging for the legislators holding meetings in the Loveland Building. The historic hotel also served settlers in need of temporary shelter while moving west across the continent. The house is now listed in the National Register of Historic Places and recently underwent...