# Quick stone house (1885)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/quick-stone-house-1885/
- Also known as: Stone House Ranch; Quick Ranch; Ben Quick Ranch and Fort
- Kind: Historic homes and cabins
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: Douglas County, Colorado
- Point: 39.2661, -104.9537 (from a cited description (good to a quarter mile))

- Updated: 2026-10-20

## What we know

Ben Quick's stone ranch house, 7355 S. Perry Park Road. Quick came in 1860, lived at first in an old cabin six miles down the creek and settled here in the spring of 1861; his log house of that year later served as the barn, and the better house he built in 1867 was still in use as a dwelling in 1898. In 1885 he built the stone house of rock from the farm, with a stone fence of the same rock around the yard; by 1898 he owned 2,400 acres, nearly all in one body, irrigated from a reservoir built at a cost of $3,000 (PBR 1898, p. 443, S-0191). The building inventory record (S-0005) and a Larkspur Historical Society ranch history (S-0199) give 1884 for the stone house and call the stone rhyolite; PBR, printed in Quick's lifetime, and the 1983 county master plan appendix and Appleby (S-0123) give 1885. Work on his dike began in 1886 (S-0199). Fort Washington stood around his earlier house and barn. Quick died Feb. 2, 1915. About 1913 Earl and Elsie Tucker worked the place for his grandson, Ben Skelton; Andrew and Joe Nickson owned it for several years before R. P. Lamont of the Perry Park Ranch bought it, 2,024 acres, in August 1928 (Record Journal, Aug. 3, 1928), and Reginald Sinclaire bought it from Lamont in 1935, with 'the number one water right on Plum Creek' (S-0199). National Register Oct. 1, 1974, as the Ben Quick Ranch and Fort, at 6695 W. Plum Creek Road (S-0199). Clara Turner said in 1995 that Wallace Turner's family moved from Woodland Park to 'the Ben Quick place' about 1920, owned and farmed it, sold it, and took it back when the buyers could not pay, for perhaps six or eight years (DCL oral history doh/1067, S-0213). This does not fit the ownership sequence above and may concern part of the Quick land; not checked. Ben Quick started a school upstairs in his ranch house, a district by 1870 (Weber and Schlupp, ch. 11, p. 57; S-0262).

## Where it was

NE1/4 SW1/4 of Sec. 13, T9S R68W, from the Colorado Historical Society building inventory record (Larkspur Historical Society site-survey binder 10, p. 5, S-0005); a 1978 deed for 45.85 acres in the W1/2 of Sec. 13 agrees (same binder, p. 110). The point is the center of that quarter-quarter on the BLM PLSS grid; the National Register's point for the Ben Quick Ranch and Fort is 0.13 mile away (S-0199). Good to about a quarter mile. On the 1937 county aerial photograph (sheet 145) the point falls in the ranch headquarters yard, among trees reached by a lane from the road (DCL aerials, S-0213).

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0005: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0005
- S-0016: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0016
- S-0045: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0045
- S-0046: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0046
- S-0120: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0120
- S-0123: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0123
- S-0191: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0191
- S-0199: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0199
- S-0213: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0213
- S-0262: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0262

## Nearby

- [Fort Washington (1868)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/fort-washington-1868/): 0.1 mi south
- [Glen Grove School](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-school/): 0.4 mi southeast
- [Glen Grove Cemetery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/glen-grove-cemetery/): 0.5 mi west
- [Kinner house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/kinner-house/): 0.5 mi northwest
- [Huntsville (1860 site)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/huntsville-1860-site/): 0.7 mi southeast
- [Sinclaire House](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/sinclaire-house/): 1.1 mi northeast

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.