Many of its original houses and cottages were torn down or moved in later decades, even as Redstone itself revived slightly as an arts colony.

The lodge is on a 6-acre (2.4 ha) complex[1] on the west side of Highway 133, approximately a mile (1.6 km) south of the turnoff to Redstone, at an elevation of 7,280 feet (2,220 m) above sea level.

On both sides of the valley steep wooded mountain slopes rise to alpine summits as high as 12,000 feet (3,700 m) in White River and Gunnison national forests.

[4] The lodge building is a one-and-a-half-story timber frame house sided with wooden shingles stained dark brown.

Its eaves are lower, supported by smaller brackets, with the roof pierced by a large shed dormer on the south side.

His goal was to open mines in the remote Crystal Valley, where he had found high-quality coal suitable for coking during his surveys.

In the wake of the Panic of 1893, which hit Colorado's mining sector very hard, banks were unwilling to lend the money to build the necessary railroad connection until the closing years of the century.

He embraced paternal capitalism as an alternative, and planned a company town to be called Redstone, as the center of CF&I's operations in the Crystal Valley.

After setting up a large coke oven complex, he hired architect Theodore Boal to design both his estate and the town.

[7] Influenced by the writings of Andrew Jackson Downing earlier in the century, which had led to the Carpenter Gothic movement and other early Victorian styles that tried to harmonize country houses with their natural setting, Boal built primarily in the Tudor Revival and Swiss Chalet styles, the latter of which finds one of its fullest expressions in Redstone in the gamekeeper's cottage.

[5] In addition to Osgood's hunting lodge, which eventually became his Cleveholm mansion, Boal designed small cottages for the workers and a dormitory for unmarried miners that is today the Redstone Inn, in the same styles.

In addition to being high-quality workmanship, in contrast to the makeshift shacks and cabins that dominated most mining camps of the era, the cottages and dormitory had amenities such as electricity and running water that were considered luxuries at the time by any standard.

Their guests, who frequently accompanied them on their hunting expeditions, included John D. Rockefeller, Theodore Roosevelt and King Leopold II of Belgium.

Six years later, CF&I's completion of a new coke plant and economic shifts made Redstone's mines unprofitable, and the town was nearly abandoned within days.

The next year the bitter strike that culminated in the Ludlow massacre demonstrated the unsustainability of the paternalist philosophy that had motivated him to build Redstone.