Healy House & Dexter Cabin

Join us on Saturday, September 12 for the opening of 12 Tablecloths Leadville! This is the fourth and final chapter in the groundbreaking series of installations by renowned artist Chloé Duplessis. 12 Tablecloths is a reimagined offering that honors the extraordinary contributions of Black women and the significance of domestic service in Leadville and across […]

Join us for the Irish Weekend launch of Molly Sturdevant’s The Sleepers, a novel directly tied to the Irish Miners Memorial. Join author Molly Sturdevant for the local launch of her new novel The Sleepers, which follows small letterpress printer Frances Byrne as she witnesses the fallout of the Silver Panic of 1893 and the […]

Join XX Paranormal Communications for a late-night tour of the Healy House Museum & Dexter Cabin unlike any other! For nearly 150 years, the Little Mansion on the Hill has kept watch over Cloud City. From glittering highs to devastating lows, the 1878 Healy House and 1879 Dexter Cabin have seen it all. Thousands have […]

“We begin, as many books end, with a deathbed.” -Chris Woodyard, The Victorian Book of the Dead Despite the incredible progress of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, death was an ever-present part of life. Dangerous working conditions, illness, inadequate medical care, and frequent accidents meant that families were intimately familiar with loss, and […]