Name/Title
Annie Brown's LodgeEntry/Object ID
2024.10.15Description
Two photos of the Bridge of Sighs at Annie Brown's lodge. The women in the canoe in Photo 2 were participating in the Rocky Mountain Dancing Camp. These photos were on six loose scrapbook pages, and the entire collection of scrapbook pages can be found at 2024.10.13.Context
Portia Mansfield and Charlotte Perry graduated from Smith College in 1910, and in 1915 they rented the Dixie Lodge from Annie Brown to start their Perry Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp that today is recognized as the oldest continuously operating performing arts school and camp in the nation.
After the first year at Lake Eldora the camp was moved to Steamboat Springs where it still exists today. Stories abound on why the camp only lasted one year at Lake Eldora and include peeping Tom’s and the high altitude.
In 2004 Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield were inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame.Collection
Donald C. Kemp CollectionAcquisition
Accession
2024.10Source or Donor
Donald C. Kemp
