Arapahoe Hunt Club

While being an astute businessman, his true love in life was ranching with a special fondness for horses.  In 1929 Phipps resurrected the Arapahoe Hunt Club, a prestigious group of horseback riding hunters, many wearing the traditional red vestments and aided by a...

Colorado Castles

A Highlands Ranch Zoom Program – Kevin Snow   Join us for a chance to see how the well-to-do live (or did live) in the Castles of Colorado!!   This is a recording.  Colorado has always had lots of rock to work with, so building a castle...

In the Beginning: The First House

IN THE BEGINNING:  THE FIRST HOUSE   When Philip and Kaye Scott closed on the first house in the new community of Highlands Ranch on Sept. 28, 1981, developer Mission Viejo gave them a bonus—a 650-pound steer! “We had to buy a full-size freezer for all the...