Insider Tours: Rockmount Ranch Wear

About the tour: Learn about the history of Rockmount Ranch Wear through a tour and presentation from Steve Weil, President & Chief Creative Officer of Rockmount Ranch Wear.

About the building: The Rockmount Building is a significant and rare example of Denver Prairie School, in the tradition of Frank Lloyd Wright & Louis Sullivan.  Built in 1909, the neighborhood dates to 1859.  The area thrived as the commercial hub of the railroad.  The warehouse district housed the goods and travelers coming to Denver by rail, a remnant of the Old West surviving and re-purposed to be relevant to modern day.

Warehouses were built as citadels to house the goods brought across the continent.  This is the last warehouse in LoDo still used as originally built.  One of Denver’s fine historic buildings it was restored by the Weil Family who has occupied it with their business, Rockmount Ranch Wear Mfg. Co. for three generations. See the original heavy timbering, tin ceiling, fur floors, paneling, fully fired brick and terra cotta ornamentation. Rockmount — an original Western clothing manufacturer, one of Lodo’s oldest companies — has been here since 1946.