Galligan House

Coordinates: 38°15′19″N 104°37′34″W / 38.25528°N 104.62611°W / 38.25528; -104.62611 (Galligan House)
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Galligan House
Galligan House is located in Colorado
Galligan House
Location501 Colorado Ave., Pueblo, Colorado
Coordinates38°15′19″N 104°37′34″W / 38.25528°N 104.62611°W / 38.25528; -104.62611 (Galligan House)
Arealess than one acre
Built1891
Built byMiles McGrath
ArchitectMiles McGrath
Architectural styleQueen Anne
NRHP reference No.82002311[1]
Added to NRHPJune 3, 1982

The Galligan House, at 501 Colorado Ave. in Pueblo, Colorado, is a Queen Anne-style house which was built in 1891 for a prominent Pueblo lawyer.[2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.[1]

It was built for Judge Mathew J. Galligan and his wife Minnie J. Bailey Galligan by Miles McGrath. McGrath was the architect, contractor and building supervisor.[3] Galligan (1855-1930), was born in Washington County, Wisconsin, worked for Union Pacific in Nebraska and Iowa, and studied law, and practiced briefly in Denver, and moved to Pueblo in 1883.[4]

The house was deemed "significant architecturally as an intact example of a well designed and beautifully finished upper-class dwelling of its era" and "significant historically for its connection with the well respected and civic minded lawyer, Mathew J. Galligan. Members of the Galligan family lived in the home for eighty-six years."[3]

Another source calls the house "a fine example of the Queen Anne style with its wrap around porch and circular tower."[4]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. ^ "Galligan House". History Colorado.
  3. ^ a b Mr. and Mrs. David S. Smith (May 8, 1980). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Galligan House". National Park Service. Retrieved October 5, 2021. With accompanying two photos from 1980
  4. ^ a b Jeffrey DeHerrera; Adam Thomas; Cheri Yost (July 2011). "Industrial Utopia: The History and Architecture of South Pueblo" (PDF).