1218 Clarkson Street was built in 1903 at a cost of $6000 for Milton J. and Ida M. Stair. The firm of Fisher & Huntington is listed as architect on the building permit (#1727, 1903), and the builder is listed as Gobin Stair. Gobin Stair was Milton and Ida’s son.
Milton and Ida Stair were both born in Indiana, marrying there in 1878. Milton graduated with a law degree from DePauw University in 1877, and he and Ida were married in 1878. They moved to Denver a year later, where Milton practiced law. He served as clerk of the Colorado Superior Court from 1882 to 1886, later operating his own law practice. Gobin was born in 1881 and, like his father, became an attorney. Ida Stair was a well-known painter and sculptor, perhaps best known for her work “Left Out of Paradise,” which was displayed at the World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1893.
