He would later work as a county and district judge and serve as president of the Board of Education for 18 years.
Bouton, who came to Colorado in 1872 and set up a law practice in the 100 block of North College Avenue, became a pillar of the Fort Collins community. Complete with a reception hall, parlor, massive oak stairway, library, Texas pine trim and seven bedrooms, the massive home was a Victorian marvel and inhabited by Bouton, his wife, Celestia, and their three children. Built for Judge Jay Henry Bouton (also spelled Boughton), the two-and-a-half story turn-of-the-century home on North Sherwood cost $6,000 and warranted its own story in the Fort Collins Courier, according to a 1981 article written by historian Wayne Sundberg. In the fall of 1895, a newly-constructed house tucked away on North Sherwood Street was the talk of the town. Source: Historic Preservation Survey, 1981 and the City of Fort Collins It was sold to its current owners, Dan and Jeannine Eckles, in 1996. died in 1986 and Rachel sold the home in 1988. Its architectural style most closely resembles Spanish colonial revival, with a red-tiled, hipped roof and pillared porch entryway. Grant is 5,353 square feet with rubbed oak floors and moldings. J.D., a self-made man who rose above the Depression to start Forney Industries, became a pioneer in the farm welding equipment industry and a local millionaire in the 1930s. Forney and his wife, Rachel, purchased the home. The title for the Grant Street mansion was taken over by the Northern Colorado Loan Association and it was later occupied by the Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity from 1937 until the early 1940s, when J.D. Grant Street until 1931, when they lost the home as the Depression deepened. Meldrum St.īuilt in 1919 by stockman Thomas Reinholtz, the Reinholtz family – including Thomas’ wife Kea (Kate) and their three children – lived in the stately mansion at 309 S. Source: Colorado Historical Society and Coloradoan Archives and Scott Sheely Farrell As the story goes, Art responded, "would you consider calling him Dwight D?" Farrell said, with a laugh. Art was sent a telegram with the good news, alerting him that his newborn grandson's middle name was Sheely. One of their grandsons, Scott Sheely Farrell, was born on the same day as Eisenhower's second inauguration in 1957. The couple had two daughters and five grandchildren at the time of Margaret’s death. Art died in 1973 and Margaret followed close behind in 1975. Eisenhower's 1952 presidential campaign in Colorado. Eisenhower was a frequent visitor of 1608 Sheely Dr., Art's son-in-law confirmed.
As a prominent Larimer County republican, Art was the co-chair of Dwight D. He later opened Sheely Motors in Longmont with his son-in-law. Art owned an car dealership in Fort Collins that he sold to Markley Motors in the 1960s. The sprawling ranch reflected the new family home concept of the 1950s. represents a move to more modern building materials and the innovative design of the post-WWII housing industry boom. Built in 1955 by prominent businessman Arthur Shelly and his wife Margaret, 1608 Sheely Dr.
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