Redstone Inn
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Redstone Inn
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North elevation from driveway, 2007
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 Location within Colorado
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| Location | Redstone, CO |
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| Nearest city | Aspen |
| Coordinates | 39°10′48″N 107°14′22″W / 39.18000°N 107.23944°WCoordinates: 39°10′48″N 107°14′22″W / 39.18000°N 107.23944°W |
| Area | 22 acres (8.9 ha) |
| Built | 1902 |
| Architect | Theodore Boal |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| Part of | Redstone Historic District (#89000934) |
| MPS | Mining Industry in Colorado |
| NRHP Reference # | 80000920 |
| Added to NRHP | March 27, 1980 |
The Redstone Inn is located on Redstone Boulevard in Redstone, Colorado, United States. It is a structure in the Tudor Revival architectural styles built at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1980 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It is also a contributing property to the Redstone Historic District listed on the Register nine years later.
When it was built, it served as a dormitory for unmarried male workers, primarily miners, at the Colorado Fuel & Iron (CF&I) company's coal mines and coking ovens nearby. It was part of the company town, with modest cottages for the miners and their families as well as a school, recreation center, firehouse and other public buildings, that CF&I president John Cleveland Osgood, had spent lavishly to create along with his nearby estate. The mines were closed in 1908, and the village nearly abandoned, the dormitory among them. Most of its original buildings were demolished or moved, but the dormitory survived, and was restored and converted to its current use in mid-century.
The 22-acre (8.9 ha) inn complex is located at the junction of Redstone and Firehouse Road just opposite the bridge over the Crystal River from State Highway 133, the main entrance to Redstone for visitors and passing traffic, just opposite the old coke ovens. It is at the southern end of the central portion of Redstone. To the north are the small surviving wood frame cottages along the two streets. Redstone Boulevard continues south, unpaved, along the east bank of the Crystal for over a mile, to Osgood Castle. On the east and west mountain slopes rise ultimately to summits above 12,000 feet (3,700 m); the land is mostly part of White River National Forest and additionally in the Maroon Bells–Snowmass Wilderness on the east.
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