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This photo shows the greenhouse that was built in 1905 by John Cleveland Osgood as part of the Redstone Castle (Cleveholm Manor). Osgood died in 1926 and in 1939 retired Forest Service employee S. Floyd Chappel purchased the greenhouse. Chappel undertook the massive project of moving the greenhouse piece by piece, each piece being numbered, to property he had purchased from Clarence Diffendarfer in West Glenwood. Chappel ran his business there until his death in 1943. After that the greenhouse was owned and run by a few different people until it was purchased in 1952 by Ed and Naomi Nieman who ran Glenwood Floral and Greenhouse until 1992. Over the 40 years that Niemans ran the Greenhouse the three-sided building extensions were removed due to leakage problems with the panes of glass in the roof. Hugh MacPherson bought the Greenhouse in 1992 and the business was called Glenwood Floral. Due to the impact from land development, and potential destruction of the greenhouse, an effort is being made to preserve this unique piece of local history for reconstruction at the proposed Glenwood Springs Riverside Botanical Gardens.
Courtesy/Glenwood Springs Historical Society

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