2024 Summer Tours – #4 Fountain Valley School of Colorado
This tour is limited to 45 participants.
Please register to reserve your spot (MEMBERS) or be added to the wait list (NON-MEMBERS).
Check-in time: 5:30 p.m in the Hacienda Living Room. Tour starts at 6:30 p.m.
Members are free. Non-Members $10
What do Spencer Penrose, Jack Bradley, Elizabeth Sage Hare, Francis Froelicher and John Gaw Meem all have in common? The answer is 1600 acres that started as the Lazy B Ranch and became Fountain Valley School, all as the country settled into the Great Depression. In a slide presentation of the School’s early beginnings and a tour of three of its seminal buildings – the Hacienda, Sage Hall and the Barn, commonly known today as the Art Barn – participants will learn about the School’s distinctive architecture as the Lazy B was transformed into the boarding school we know today as Fountain Valley School of Colorado.
Getting to FVS: From I-25 North or South, take Exit 135; turn east onto S. Academy Blvd.; travel east-northeast on S. Academy Blvd. to Bradley Rd. (1.3 miles); exit to your right; turn left (using the roundabout) from the exit and continue onto Bradley Rd.; travel east on Bradley Rd. and turn right onto Grinnell Blvd. heading south; the School entrance is on the left about ¾ mile down Grinnell Blvd.
HPA Coordinator: John Haney
Tour Guide: Jake Emery, Fountain Valley School’s Archivist
Parking: Designated visitor parking is available behind the Hacienda Building (turn left at the roundabout).
Disabled Access: Yes
Bathrooms: Yes
Please note: 2024 Summer Tour Update:
We are excited to announce the tours for the upcoming 2024 Summer Series! The HPA, in appreciation of our member’s support, is prioritizing reservations when attendance limitations apply. Reservations will be taken on a first come first serve basis by signing up for your preferred tours below. This also means that members will be given a place before “guests” or non-members. If a member wishes to include a guest, that guest will be put on the wait list until and if a cancellation occurs and they are first on the wait list. We will email everyone who has a reservation before each tour to confirm that they still intend to attend. Cancellations will be handled on the website and through the link provided in your confirmation email.
