Thediscovery of gold and silver in Colorado's Rocky Mountains minted millionaires by the ton. The rough settlements of miners and ranchers quickly transformedinto habitations more suitable for the newly wealthy class. William NewtonByers founded the Centennial State's first newspaper and built anItalianate-style palace with the proceeds, while Walter Scott Cheesman'sCapitol Hill home later became the governor's residence. Stroll into theparlors and drawing rooms of oligarchs like August A. Meyer, Lyman Robison andJames Joseph Brown. Visit Romanesque castles cut from native lava and countryretreats designed by the country's foremost architects. Linda Wommack offers atour of the finest mansions in Colorado, all proudly bearing the mark of theState and National Registers of Historic Preservation.
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