I have been walking in Washington Park quite a lot lately, and each time I have noticed people in the Eugene Field House, the front porch of which can be seen in the photograph above. This was Field's residence here in Denver from 1881 to 1883, when he was the managing editor of the Denver Tribune. The house was moved from its original location on East Colfax Avenue to Washington Park back in 1927, with the financial assistance of the "unsinkable" Molly Brown, where it served as a branch of the Denver Public Library for a number of years. It was occupied by a city employee, possibly a police officer, for a time, but after a mini-scandal broke out about how little rent was being charged, it became vacant again, and stayed that way until now. If someone is living there, they had better be paying market rent, which in that neighborhood is pretty damn high.
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