
— pink stucco against a mountain, since 1918.
“A pink hotel at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain, with a small lake in the middle and the Front Range rising behind it. Spencer Penrose opened it in 1918. Warren and Wetmore, the architects of Grand Central Terminal, drew the elevations and gave the West a Mediterranean. The pink stucco has been re-coated in the same pigment for over a hundred years. People come for the steadiness of it more than for any one thing. The mountain is older. The hotel doesn't try to compete.

Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
Each tile ships in a kraft box, tied with cream ribbon, with a handwritten note from the studio if you'd like to add one.
Three or five different vistas, hung together — a chapter of places you've been, or want to go.
The Broadmoor sits at the southwest edge of Colorado Springs, at the foot of Cheyenne Mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains. Elevation 6,230 feet. The resort opened in 1918 on land that Spencer Penrose acquired and developed after earlier uses as a small casino and a dairy farm. Cheyenne Mountain rises to 9,565 feet to the south and west; Cheyenne Lake sits in the middle of the property, mirroring the facade and the ridgeline. The Broadmoor is about twenty minutes from downtown Colorado Springs and an hour and fifteen minutes south of Denver. Pikes Peak, at 14,115 feet, is visible from the upper floors of the West Tower.
The shell is Italian Renaissance, the colour is Mediterranean pink, and the architects were Warren and Wetmore, the New York firm that drew Grand Central Terminal in 1913. They were commissioned by Spencer Penrose, who had made his fortune in Cripple Creek gold and copper at Bingham Canyon, and wanted Colorado Springs to have a resort that could keep guests for a season. The pink stucco and red tile roof took their cues from the south of Europe. The building was finished and opened on June 29, 1918. The colour has been re-stuccoed in the same pigment ever since. Donald Ross laid out the original golf course the same year.
Opened June 29, 1918, The Broadmoor has been continuously operated as a luxury resort for over a hundred years. It holds the longest unbroken run of AAA Five Diamond status of any hotel in the world, first awarded in 1976 and held every year since. The Forbes Travel Guide has named it Five Stars for decades. The East Course, designed by Donald Ross and renovated by Robert Trent Jones in 1951, has hosted multiple US Senior Opens and the 2011 US Women's Open. The property is owned by The Anschutz Corporation, which acquired it in 2011. The flowers in the front urns change with the season; almost nothing else does.