Astor House Museum050

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Astor House Museum has been restored to its original glory as a late Victorian western hotel/boarding house that opened in 1867 and stayed in operation until 1971. Vistors can see what life was like for the miners, families, and cowboys who paid $1.50 a day or $4.50 a week which included two meals a day!

Indoors, visitors can wander through the dining room and kitchen before viewing the five upstairs rooms furnished with chamber pots, beds, derby hats, and an assortment of other goodies from the early 1900s. Guests can even use the Victorian water closet (bathroom), should the need arise: It has a special high-tank toilet that are rarely seen today.

The museum is adjacent to Clear Creek History Park featuring historic buildings from the mining years of the late 1800s, including a prospectors camp and an old school house.