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Byers–Evans House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
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Location	1310 Bannock St., Denver, Colorado
Area	less than one acre
Built	1880
Architectural style	Late Victorian, Victorian Eclectic
NRHP reference No.	70000158
Added to NRHP	August 25, 1970

The Byers–Evans House Museum is a historic house museum in Denver, Colorado, United States.

History

Byers–Evans House, Denver, about 1889, when the photograph was taken of Evans family members. It was the home of William Gray Evans beginning 1889. In 1900, Margaret Gray Evans and her daughter Anne Evans moved into the house.

The Byers–Evans house was built in 1883 by William Byers, the founder of the Rocky Mountain News and was sold to William Gray Evans in 1889. It is an Italianate style house which had several additions made to it over the years. William Evans lived in the home with his wife Cornelia Lunt Gray and their four children, John, Josephine, Margaret and Katharine. William's mother, Margaret Patten Gray Evans, former first lady of Colorado, moved into the home in 1900 with her unmarried daughter, Anne Evans. Members of the Evans family continued to live in the home until 1981.

The house was donated to the Colorado Historical Society in 1981, along with the entire contents of the house. The house has been restored to the 1912–1924 period and includes approximately 90% of the original furniture, glassware, china, and other household items belonging to the Evans family.

Byers–Evans House Museum

The Byers–Evans House Museum is located in Denver, Colorado, at 1310 Bannock St, directly behind the Denver Art Museum. Guided house tours are offered; the museum may not be viewed by self-guided tour. The museum is administered by History Colorado.