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Over its 100-year history, The Broadmoor has had only three owners. Steve Bartolin, who has worked for two of them, finds that remarkable. And while those three owners – Broadmoor founder Spencer Penrose and his charitable El Pomar Foundation, Edward Gaylord and his Oklahoma Publishing Co., and Philip Anschutz – have left their individual marks…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Unfortunately, I never met Spencer Penrose. He died in 1939, and I was not born until 1941. Despite our paths never crossing, I know him well; back in 1892, he was the junior partner of…

Looking back at the leaders of The Broadmoor’s culinary journey is like traveling through a time capsule of food trends. Like fashion, food styles have come and gone, but one of the diamonds in the Grand Dame’s tiara is its award-winning dining history. Chefs at The Broadmoor have always been on the cutting edge. As…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Looking back at the leaders of The Broadmoor’s culinary journey is like traveling through a time capsule of food trends. Like fashion, food styles have come and gone, but one of the diamonds in the Grand Dame’s tiara is its award-winning dining history. Chefs at…

It’s probably safe to say Spencer Penrose was a man accustomed to getting what he wanted, and on that fateful, apocryphal, night in 1890-something Colorado Springs, what “Speck” Penrose wanted was a drink. He’d come to the wrong town. Such spirited thirsts were legally unquenchable in Gen. William Jackson Palmer’s (in)famously dry Eden at the…

Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Some time ago, during the early years of The Broadmoor, Spencer Penrose decided the hotel produced too much waste and his costs were much higher than acceptable. An impatient man, he decided to take the…

Spencer Penrose bought so much booze to make the 1920s roar at The Broadmoor that the cost of storing his stash put a pinch in the gold baron’s well-filled wallet. Penrose, a proud tippler who situated the hotel outside Colorado Springs to avoid the town’s Puritanical booze laws, began accumulating liquor two full years before…

Presidents, movie stars, athletes, comedians. Anybody who’s anybody has rested their head upon a Broadmoor pillow. And the Wall of Fame near the bowling alley Play in The Broadmoor West building boasts many of their mugs. More than 200 celebrities who have stayed at the plush digs have had their photos taken by the hotel’s…

When Goose Gossage was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2008, he was showered with acclaim and honor by his hometown. Gossage is Colorado Springs, through and through. Born here. Raised in a home near Fillmore on what was then the north edge of the city. Educated at Wasson High School. Lives here,…