Foster-Buell Estate

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.

From the record

“The Foster-Buell Estate is a home located at 2700 E. Hampden Ave. in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.”
Wikipedia article Foster-Buell Estate, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 26 National Register listings published here for Arapahoe County · listed in 1998 · 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 2 buildingss, 1 structure as contributing to the listing.
Listed as. Foster--Buell Estate - the National Register files a house under its owner's surname.
Address. 2700 E. Hampden Ave., Cherry Hills Village, 80113
When was it listed? April 1998
Category. building
Census division. Southwest Arapahoe
Architectural style. Colonial Revival architecture, Neoclassical architecture
Architect. William Ellsworth Fisher
National Register reference number. 98000294 - 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

848 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 848 fires within 5 miles of Foster-Buell Estate between 2010 and 2020, burning about 145 acres in total. 13 started naturally. 21 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	716
Smoking	32
Equipment and vehicle use	25
Arson/incendiarism	21
Recreation and ceremony	19
Natural	13
Misuse of fire by a minor	8
Debris and open burning	6
Fireworks	5
Railroad operations and maintenance	2
Power generation/transmission/distribution	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
9 September 2017	Smoking	under an acre	South Metro Fire Rescue	UNKNOWN
8 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named
7 September 2020	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
7 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
5 September 2019	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	N/A
5 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	DENVER
4 September 2020	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A
4 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Denver Fire Department	N/A

Every fire recorded in Arapahoe County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 35 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 35 workings within 5 miles of Foster-Buell Estate: 11 producers, 10 occurrences, 8 unknowns, 6 past producers. 11 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, 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
Robinson Brick & Tile Co., Plant 1	Clay	Producer
Big Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Occurrence	1858
Big Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Unknown
Cherry Creek Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Little Dry Creek Placers	Gold	Occurrence	Placer
Mexican Diggings	Gold	Past Producer	1858
Central Construction Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Cherry Creek Sand Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Clarke Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Englewood Plant	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer

Every working recorded in Arapahoe 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
Maitland Estate	0.5 miles	1998
Owen Estate	0.9 miles	1999
Hopkins Farm	1.0 miles	2007
Little Estate	1.0 miles	1998
David W. Brown House	1.1 miles	1980
Arapahoe Acres	1.5 miles	1998

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 98000294 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Arapahoe County	All 26 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.