RHS is brainstorming resources to purchase this property.  

Having lost our Castle display spaces, “Redstone Historical Society has no space to tell the broader story of Redstone as well as a space for community meetings and events. This is a timely opportunity for RHS and unlikely to happen again.” – Suzannah Reid, Pitkin County Historic Preservation Officer

• The DeMaestri and Durrett families have been careful stewards of the property for 80 years.  It was sold by Joseph James Hall in 1944 to a family relative, John Persano, a mail carrier for the Frying Pan and Crystal Valleys;  John’s niece, Rose DeMaestri, inherited the property from John Persano upon his death on November 20, 1963 but died a year later; then the cottage was handled on to Albert and Katie DeMaestri, and from them to a cousin, Gregory Durrett; Gregory cared for it for several decades.  When he died in 2017, ownership of the house went to his two bothers, Anthony and Ashton Durrett and to a cousin, Lisa Erickson, who is a descendant of the DeMaestri family.