Sumers Lodge

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997.

From the record

“The Sumers Lodge in Glenwood Springs, Colorado is a rustic log house built in 1935 for New York financier George Sumers. It was designed by Chilson Aldrich, and some of its furnishings were designed and made by Thomas C.”
Wikipedia article Sumers Lodge, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 20 National Register listings published here for Garfield County · listed in 1997 · 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. 1200 Mountain Dr., Glenwood Springs, 81601
When was it listed? June 1997
Category. building
Census division. Glenwood Springs
Architectural style. rustic architecture
National Register reference number. 97000593 - 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

119 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 119 fires within 5 miles of Sumers Lodge between 1992 and 2020, burning about 33,007 acres in total. 40 started naturally. None was 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	58
Natural	40
Recreation and ceremony	15
Smoking	3
Equipment and vehicle use	1
Fireworks	1
Debris and open burning	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
29 September 1998	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GLENWOOD
26 September 2005	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	34 acres	Northwest District, Grand Junction	GFX ASSIST 17
20 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	19TH STREET
20 September 2010	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	OASIS CREEK
2 September 2017	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	WALMART COMMAND
13 September 2005	Natural	under an acre	Northwest District, Grand Junction	RED CANYON
11 September 1994	Natural	under an acre	White River National Forest	KENDALL
8 August 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	GLENWOOD SPRINGS

Every fire recorded in Garfield County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Sumers Lodge: 3 occurrences, 3 producers, 2 past producers, 1 unknown. 3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Limestone, Dimension, Limestone, General, Clay. 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
Glenwood Springs	Geothermal	Unknown
Unknown	Limestone, General	Producer	Limestone
Unknown	Clay	Occurrence	Clay
Glenwood Lime Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Producer
Marblehead Quarry	Limestone, Dimension	Past Producer
Jammeron Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Unknown	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Occurrence	Sand and Gravel
Unknown Gravel Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Garfield 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

6 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
Cardiff Coke Ovens	0.6 miles	1996
Starr Manor	2.2 miles	1986
Edward T. Taylor House	2.2 miles	1986
Citizens National Bank Building	2.3 miles	1999
Western Hotel	2.4 miles	2016
Glenwood Springs Hydroelectric Plant	2.6 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 97000593 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Garfield County	All 20 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.