# Reynolds Ranch House (Twin Oaks ranch)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/reynolds-ranch-house-twin-oaks-ranch/
- Also known as: the Joe Reynolds ranch; the Twin Oak place (John G. Hagen's by 1918); Hagen farmhouse (1977 survey)
- Kind: Historic homes and cabins
- Status: Living today
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.027, -104.829 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Still standing: the 'well-preserved 1894 farmhouse', a Queen Anne in a rural setting, on the State Register as Reynolds Ranch, 5EP.2223, since Sept. 10, 1997 (History Colorado, S-0194), with two bunkhouses and two barns, one of 1893; it is the last building of the Husted neighborhood on its original site (PLHS newsletter, 2016, S-0002; Gazette, 2016 and 2025, S-0108). Joseph E. Reynolds, a Union veteran and carpenter who had worked in the Divide sawmills, came to the neighborhood in 1882 (his 1883 homestead patent is three miles east-southeast, in Secs. 10 and 15; S-0080); by 1899 his 720-acre ranch 'stands on section 6' near Husted, and as a legislator he 'introduced the bill and secured its passage for building the state reservoir at Monument' (PBR 1899, S-0192, pp. 655-656). The Sun Hills essay says the Reynoldses bought this land in 1889 and built the house in 1894 (S-0114), the State Register's date; museum statements in the Gazette have said 'around 1892' (2016) and 'late 1890s' (2025). The ranch ran a dairy and a sawmill (Gazette, 2016). By 1918 John George Hagen 'now resides upon the Joe Reynolds ranch, known as the Twin Oak place, at Husted Station, comprising one thousand acres' (Stone, S-0193, vol. 3 p. 784). The 1977 county survey lists the 'Hagen farmhouse' at the Northgate exit of I-25 (Freed and Barber, S-0101), and Lavelett called it 'still a lovely home' in 1979 (S-0013, p. 68). Nine families owned it before the museum; the Air Force Academy bought the land west of I-25, which is why it survived (S-0002; Gazette, 2016).

## Where it was

The Reynolds Ranch House on the grounds of the Western Museum of Mining & Industry, 225 North Gate Blvd: placed at the farmhouse nearest North Gate Boulevard in aerial imagery, which fits the Sun Hills essay's farmhouse 'which you see when you drive by' with the museum building 'farther back' (S-0114). It stands on Clark Z. Cozens's 1873 homestead, Sec. 6 lot 5 and Sec. 7 lot 1, T12S R66W (BLM GLO, S-0080), the 'section 6' of Reynolds's 1899 sketch, whose printed range 67 is a slip for 66: the section is 1.77 miles northeast of Husted station, as the sketch says. Good to a few hundred feet.

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

## Sources

- S-0002: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0002
- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0013: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0013
- S-0080: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0080
- S-0101: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0101
- S-0108: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0108
- S-0114: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0114
- S-0192: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0192
- S-0193: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0193
- S-0194: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0194

## 1976 survey photographs (Pikes Peak Library District)

- Reynolds House at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044646
- Barn at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044647
- Reynolds House at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044648
- Reynolds House at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044649
- Barn at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044650
- Reynolds House at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044808
- Reynolds House at Hagen Ranch, summer 1976: https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/1044809

## Nearby

- [Henry B. Walker ranch (1869-1907)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/henry-b-walker-ranch-1869-1907/): 0.5 mi southwest
- [East Husted (Santa Fe station)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/east-husted-santa-fe-station/): 0.7 mi south
- [Dead Man's Creek (an 1860s 'bloody tragedy')](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dead-mans-creek-an-1860s-bloody-tragedy/): 1.0 mi southwest
- [Southwater](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/southwater/): 1.1 mi northwest
- [Husted](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/husted/): 1.1 mi southwest
- [James H. Shumate ranch](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/james-h-shumate-ranch/): 1.2 mi south

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