Vogl House
700 Dounce Street, Lafayette, Colo., renovated in 1999This peaked, hipped roof house was built in the 1920s by the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company at the Columbine mine northeast of Lafayette. It was moved in 1946 to 700 Dounce Street in Lafayette by Walter Vogl, a coal miner and RM Fuel Company employee. He purchased the Type H house for $450. The Columbine mine was located at Serene, Colo., which is now the Erie Front Range landfill. In 1997 the former owners began construction of a two-story addition but stopped with two-thirds left to completion. Doug bought the vacant 1,700 sq. ft. house from them and finished the renovation, including a complete interior gut. The renovated historic structure and modest two-story addition show how a complementary, modern new space can be added to a historic structure without overwhelming or obliterating it.
Front elevation from a Rocky Mountain Fuel Company Type H house plan.
Several Type H houses at the Simpson Mine circa 1920. The homes were built in 1910 in response to increasing labor tensions between union miners and absentee mine owners.
The Walter Vogl House in 1948, about 2 years after it was moved from the Columbine Mine.
An major addition was started but not finished until Doug took on the project.
The remodeled interior staircase leading to the new addition at 700 Dounce Street in Lafayette.
The new kitchen at 700 Dounce Street.
700 Dounce Street with the rear addition shown in 2002.
