El Pomar Foundation - Penrose House

Happy New Year from Penrose House!

Charles L. Tutt, Sr., business partner and lifelong friend of Spencer Penrose, moved to Colorado Springs in 1885. By 1892 Tutt had purchased the Cash on Delivery (C.O.D.) gold mine and contacted Spencer Penrose to join him in the new business venture. Over the years, they would both become millionaires mining gold and copper and milling ore. Tutt passed away due to heart failure on Jan 21, 1909; he was just 45 years old. (Content by Tania Jordett)

After their marriage, Grace Goodyear Depew Potter and Ashton Howard Potter plunged into Colorado Springs society, joining the Cheyenne Mountain Country Club, the Cooking Club and Julie and Spencer Penrose’s culinary clan. The Potters became close friends with the Penroses, and the two couples toured East Asia together. Eventually, Spencer and Julie Penrose would come to own the Potters’ El Pomar estate. (Content by Tania Jordet)