Healy House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970.

From the record

“Healy House Museum was the Leadville, Colorado home built in 1878 by mining engineer and city father August R. It was purchased in 1888 by Daniel Healy (1857-1912), who operated a boarding house with his cousin Nellie Healy.”
Wikipedia article Healy House Museum, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 10 National Register listings published here for Lake County · listed in 1970 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 912 Harrison Ave., Leadville, 80461
When was it listed? August 1970
Category. building
Census division. Leadville
Architect. August Meyer
National Register reference number. 70000164 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

68 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 68 fires within 5 miles of Healy House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 19 acres in total. 5 started naturally. 2 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	31
Recreation and ceremony	23
Natural	5
Misuse of fire by a minor	3
Smoking	2
Arson/incendiarism	2
Fireworks	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
7 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
5 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Lake County	CABIN
30 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	GOLF COURSE
28 September 1993	Arson/incendiarism	6.0 acres	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	not named
15 September 2016	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Pike and San Isabel National Forest	MAID OF ERIN
14 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leadville / Lake County Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
13 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Leadville / Lake County Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
11 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Front Range District Office	ZION

Every fire recorded in Lake County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 350 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 350 workings within 5 miles of Healy House: 298 past producers, 26 producers, 24 occurrences, 2 plants. 28 still produce. What was taken out: Zinc, Manganese, Lead, Gold. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Antioch Quarry	Stone	Past Producer
Ball Mountain	Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold	Past Producer
Ball Mtn. Property	Zinc, Lead, Copper	Producer
Ballard-President-Big Six	Iron, Silver, Bismuth	Producer	Replacement
Black Cloud Mill	Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold	Plant
Black Cloud Mine	Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver, Copper	Producer	1971
Chalk Mtn	Garnet	Producer
Columbia Tunnel	Lead, Zinc, Silver	Past Producer
Diamond Mine	Gold, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Elk & Grey Swan Group	Lead, Copper, Gold, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Lake County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Leadville, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2023: 4 lightning, 1 hail, 1 heavy rain. The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
July 1998	Lightning	Leadville	2 hurt, $1,000	no account filed
July 1998	Lightning	Leadville	$10,000	no account filed
July 1999	Lightning	Leadville	$3,000	A lightning flash struck in the front yard of a house, traveled a wire fence to the front of the house, and onto the aluminum siding. A window was broken on the house, and two tires on a car were flattened. The solar energy system of the house was also damaged.
August 1999	Lightning	Leadville	$1,000	A lightning flash struck the U.S. Forest Service building, destroying the electrical box on the south side of the building.
August 2023	Heavy Rain	Leadville	-	One point one inches fell in 20 minutes.
August 2007	Hail	Leadville	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lake County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

5 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Dexter Cabin	under 500 feet	1970
Golden Burro Cafe and Lounge	0.2 miles	2023
Tabor Opera House	0.4 miles	1966
Matchless Mine	1.0 miles	2010
Leadville National Fish Hatchery	5.8 miles	1980

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 70000164 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Lake County	All 10 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.