Enchanted Hart Haus (Classic)
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
SiriusXM Podcasts & Atlas Obscura
4.6 • 1.8K Ratings
🗓️ 20 September 2024
⏱️ 10 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The houses in the East Colfax neighborhood of Denver are mostly pretty traditional. |
| 0:09.0 | Neutral colors, one-car garage, small lawns in front, you know, the classic. |
| 0:15.0 | And then there's Steve Hartbowers house. |
| 0:18.0 | He was not in to the whole cookie cutter home design thing. |
| 0:23.8 | You know, it just lacks a little bit of soul. |
| 0:25.7 | I like to be able to do my own thing and, you know, not tell them, |
| 0:29.6 | to have people tell me, you have bays, |
| 0:31.3 | you have to pay your house page, you know. |
| 0:36.3 | Steve's an artist who moved into the neighborhood about 12 years ago and very soon |
| 0:40.3 | got to work making his home different. |
| 0:44.0 | Steve's house looks like a giant mosaic of all sorts of colors. |
| 0:49.0 | There are two gates that look like they came straight out of Harry Potter. |
| 0:52.0 | There are little figurines of all types of dogs, |
| 0:54.9 | there's a Virgin Mary. It can all make you forget for a second that you are in a very normal suburban neighborhood. |
| 1:03.0 | And it seems like that is the whole point. |
| 1:06.0 | I'm Dylan Thuris, and this is Atlas Obscura, a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, |
| 1:17.4 | and wondrous places. |
| 1:18.9 | And today we're headed to Denver, Colorado to hear the story of the enchanted Hart House, the home, turned in to a |
| 1:26.0 | campus. |
| 1:28.0 | After this. And the My name is Steve Hartbauer and I am an artist. I work mainly in mosaic but I weld metal and I work with found objects. |
| 2:01.0 | When Steve and his wife Amy got married, |
| 2:03.0 | they had been talking about working on some kind of massive project together. |
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