Estemere

Historic homes and cabinsLiving todayEl Paso County

What we know

Queen Anne mansion of 1887 built by Dr. William Finley Thompson, Palmer Lake's founder and first mayor (PPLD record of survey B48).

Where it was

380 Glenway (PPLD record of survey photo B48), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05).

A street address, located with the county's address points.

See it on the map

Sources

Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.

Know more about Estemere?

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