Washington Park, Denver

Colorado

A Titanic survivor bought a condemned cottage in Denver and had it hauled across town into a park.

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The cottage belonged to Eugene Field, a reporter for the Denver Tribune in the early eighteen eighties. He lived in a small house on West Colfax Avenue, and he is remembered now not for the reporting but for his children's poems. Years after he left Denver, the house was condemned. Molly Brown, who survived the sinking of the Titanic, bought it and gave it to the city. In nineteen thirty it was declared a landmark and moved to the east edge of Washington Park, at Franklin and Exposition, and restored. For years afterward it served as a branch of the Denver Public Library. In the nineteen seventies the library moved to a bigger building and the cottage became an office for a parks group. Nearby stands a bronze by Mabel Landrum Torrey showing three children from Field's best known poem, Wynken, Blynken and Nod.

This is the first of 2 parts. The rest runs about 2 minutes and is read to you as you drive past. Hear the whole piece.

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The Field House, the residence of poet and journalist Eugene Field, was moved to the park's northeast edge by Titanic survivor and philanthropist Molly Brown in 1930.

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