In 1952, Frank Kistler, Tony’s stepfather, sold his Glenwood properties, the Hotel Colorado and Hot Springs Pool, to purchase the Redstone Inn, Redstone Castle and surrounding acreage with 30 silent partners.  Tony, a trained architect moved to Redstone with his family to be the architect of Kistler’s grand Redstone resort.  His signature was on the entire resort with its ski area, nine hole golf course, two subdivisions,  an expanded Redstone Inn and several Swiss style chalet homes for second homeowners.  Always flamboyant, he and his wife Flo were at the hub of Redstone’s social life in the ’50s and ’60s and were instrumental in the revival of Redstone from a boarded up ghost town.

Tony was less know for his art, although painting and sketching were life long pursuits.  Tony worked in pen and ink, oils and watercolors.  He published two books, sketches of Colorado’s high country – artistic and historic documentation of Redstone’s changing landscape.