HENRY TREAT ROGERS MANSION SITE
Demolished House Site — 1739 East 13th Avenue, Denver, Colorado
Status: Demolished · Access: Access unknown
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/henry-treat-rogers-mansion-site-denver-colorado/

Former house associated with The Changeling and a disputed ghost narrative.

Henry Treat Rogers Mansion Site is a demolished house site in Denver, Colorado. Former house associated with The Changeling and a disputed ghost narrative. Rogers and his wife filed a building permit in July 1892; architect Henry Ten Eyck Wendell designed the house. Reported lore and claims include: Denver Public Library recounts Russell Hunter’s account of a child spirit and concealed diary; library research could not establish that he rented the house.

Rogers Mansion is the filmed — the 'Changeling' that's the movie's birth, the 'Hunter lived' that's the '68 rent. The 'hidden stair' is the found — the 'closet back' that's the wall's break, the 'child's trunk' that's the attic's keep. The 'diary read' is the told — the '9-year-old' that's the cripple hidden, the 'red ball' that's the toy's roll.
The 'piano played' is the heard — the 'itself' that's the keys' press, the 'stop it' that's the yelled end. The 'demolished' is the gone — the 'months later' that's the raze's speed, the 'exploded' that's the worker's claimed death. Rogers Mansion is the made — the 'George C. Scott' that's the film's star, the 'condos now' that's the site's use.
The file keeps the Rogers Mansion: the filmed haunting, the hidden stair, the diary's boy, and the gone house.
Rogers Mansion is the archive's Colorado file — the haunting that became a movie.

WHY THIS FILE MATTERS
Rogers Mansion is the archive's Colorado file — where a renter's ghost wrote The Changeling.
A house keeps its story — the file's suggestion being that the Rogers' hold is the told: the 'Hunter lived' that's the source's stay, the 'attic found' that's the boy's hide, and the 'film made' that's the legend's fame.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Disputed] apparition: Denver Public Library recounts Russell Hunter’s account of a child spirit and concealed diary; library research could not establish that he rented the house. The reports at Henry Treat Rogers Mansion Site are the site's second history — unofficial, unverified, and stubbornly retold. The claim is disputed by the sources that preserve it. The report is preserved in sources like 'The History of the Denver House That Inspired a Horror Film'. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: The History of the Denver House That Inspired a Horror Film (https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/history-denver-house-inspired-horror-film)

HISTORY — 1 documented facts
· Rogers and his wife filed a building permit in July 1892; architect Henry Ten Eyck Wendell designed the house. Henry Treat Rogers Mansion Site's past is on record — the entry belongs to the verified layer beneath whatever lore attaches. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. Sources including 'The History of the Denver House That Inspired a Horror Film' carry the record. The date is part of the site's documented spine.

SOURCES — 2 cited
· Hot Spots for Colorado Ghost Hunters — Colorado Tourism Office
  https://www.colorado.com/articles/haunted-colorado-hot-spots-ghost-hunters
· The History of the Denver House That Inspired a Horror Film — Denver Public Library
  https://history.denverlibrary.org/news/history-denver-house-inspired-horror-film

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