With every passing year, it becomes more evident that the Fraser Valley has entered a new era, attracting a caliber of development that could scarcely be imagined a decade ago. This summer, visitors to the Grand County Parade of Homes will see the latest sign of that emergence when they tour Rendezvous, the master-planned, year-round resort that’s growing along Winter Park’s northern and eastern edge.

A centerpiece of the exhibition will be BigHorn Cabins at Rendezvous, the latest designs by Colonnade Resort Communities, creator of Rendezvous’ highly successful MooseHorn Cabins and its newer ElkHorn and ProngHorn attached homes. BigHorn takes that success in a bigger, bolder direction – opulent plans designed with progressive mountain architecture that captures both the allure of Grand County’s past and the excitement of its future.
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WHERE: Solar home, 4-bedroom plus study in Native American motif, 265 Skylane, Erie Airpark, refreshments.
PRICE: $749,900
PHONE: 720-270-5068 WEB: http://www.tourfactory.com/368590

In 1993 when gasoline was a buck-a-gallon, architect Doug Beall was inking drawings for a 2,800-foot house plan that had been rattling around in his head since grad school at Berkeley…solar heated, partially earth-bermed, and visually matched to the prairie topography east of Boulder. What he didn’t have was a site, or more importantly in days when energy prices were still pretty low, was any financing.

Today that house, which found both a lot (Erie Air Park) and a construction loan in 1997, is on the market. Beall and wife Julie have raised two teenagers there, are now off to Steamboat Springs (he works for Intrawest, son Kevan is an alpine snowboarding champ) and have the place on the market, 2-acre site included, at $749,900.
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WHERE: Victorian residence of State Sen. James Crosby, built 1897, 330 Madison St., Cherry Creek. From Cherry Creek’s central shopping district, take Third Ave. east, past Steele Street, another three blocks to Madison and turn north.

PRICE: $1.25 million

PHONE: 303-883-4707 or 303-946-2784

by Mark Samuelson

In Cherry Creek’s fast paced, scrape-n-build climate, nothing old weathers very well these days. However, Devonshire Realtor Nancy Morgan will show you a rare piece of 110-year-old architecture that’s a three-block walk from the Third Avenue shopping district…and you can buy it for not much more than a scrape value.

A placard out front reads “Senator Crosby House 1892″…but other records show 330 Madison Street being built five years later…the same year Crosby, a former restaurant cashier from Leadville, ran a winning campaign for State Senate on a populist “single-tax” platform.
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