The Broomfield Company minutes book

Archive

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Broomfield History Collections

Name/Title

The Broomfield Company minutes book

Entry/Object ID

2012.7.4a

Scope and Content

Meeting minutes book for The Broomfield Company, 1955-1957. The book is 9" x 11.75" with a black leather hardcover and permanent metal ring binding. Gold lettering on the front and spine reads, "The Broomfield Company." The physical book was commercially made by McMillan Book Company. Contents of the book include: a State of Colorado Certificate of Authority; articles of incorporation; Company by-laws; typed Board of Directors meeting minutes; typed stockholder meeting minutes; expense reports; a sample stock certificate; memoranda; and various letters of correspondence of Board members. The Turnpike Land Company assumed primary ownership of The Broomfield Company starting in 1955 in order to develop the Broomfield Heights community. Kenton Ensor, Aksel Nielsen, Bal Swan, John J. Sullivan, and Roger D. Knight, Jr. became prominent directors of the Company. Projects under the Company's oversight mentioned in the minutes include: the construction of Broomfield Shopping Center and Garden Center offices; the Broomfield Heights Hospital Foundation to donate land for a hospital; and the attraction of industry to the Broomfield area, among other endeavors. The company ultimately sold all of its land interests to Transamerica Development Company in 1964.

Collection

Permanent Collection

Lexicon

Nomenclature 4.0

Nomenclature Primary Object Term

Minutes

Nomenclature Sub-Class

Administrative Records

Nomenclature Class

Documentary Objects

Nomenclature Category

Category 08: Communication Objects

LOC Thesaurus for Graphic Materials

Companies, Meetings, Real estate development, Water use

Search Terms

The Broomfield Company, Turnpike Land Company

Archive Details

Creator

Turnpike Land Company, The Broomfield Company

Date(s) of Creation

1955 - 1957

Archive Size/Extent

One book of three stored in an archival banker box

Archive Notes

Date(s) Created: 1955-1957 Date(s): 1955-1957 Copy/Orig/Other: Original

Relationships

Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Kenton Ensor

Person or Organization

Knight, Roger

Person or Organization

Neilson, Aksel

Person or Organization

Sullivan, John. J.

Person or Organization

Swan, Bal

Related Entries

Notes

2012.7.1a, 2012.7.1b, 2012.7.2, 2012.7.3, 2012.7.4b, 2012.7.5, 2012.7.6, 2012.7.7, 2012.7.8a-b, 2012.7.9 All related records and artifacts are part of the same collection pertaining to Broomfield Reservoir and Ditch Company, The Broomfield Company, Turnpike Land Company, and Transamerica Development Company. The assets and/or operations of the former two companies came under the ownership of Turnpike Land Company in 1955. Turnpike dissolved in 1964, with its assets going to Transamerica.

Provenance

Notes

Custodial History: This book and its contents are part of a larger group of records originally owned by Bob Ide, who donated them to the Broomfield Depot Museum in 2012 (see accession 2012.7). He obtained the records from his employer, Transamerica Development Company, in the 1970s after he worked selling many of their assets in the Broomfield area. Transamerica had acquired the documents from Turnpike Land Company in 1964. The Broomfield Company had been a part of Turnpike since 1955.