Costing $65,000 and having nearly 16,000 sq/ft, the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion was built for mining tycoon Edward Stoiber and his wife Lena in 1907. Located at 1022 Humboldt Street the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion backs to the west side of Historic Cheesman Park and was entered into the National Register of Historic Places in December of 1978. The Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion was designed in the Italian Renaissance Revival style by Marean & Norton, the same architects that designed the Historic Boettcher Mansion, the Greek Theater in Civic Center Park and the Pavillion in Cheesman Park . The Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion is one of only a handful of Historic Denver Mansions of this size that remain.
Edward Stoiber died in 1906, prior to the completion of the the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion. Lena Stoiber completed the mansion and re-married, wealthy Seattle lumber businessman Hugh Rood in 1909. That marriage was short lived as Rood died when the RMS Titanic sand in 1912. Rood was the 2nd Denver resident aboard the ill fated Titanic along with Molly Brown. 
Shortly after her 2nd husband's death, Lena Stoiber-Reed moved to Europe and sold the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion to Verner Z. Reed who had made his money in mining, oil and banking. The Reed's lived and entertained in the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion until Mr. Reed's death in 1920. At that time A. E Humphreys and his wife, Ruth Boettcher purchased the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion and raised their family in the home. The A.E. Humphreys money came from cattle, oil, mining and real estate. Ruth Humphreys was a member of the Sacred 36 and died in 1959. Thereafter, A E Humphreys remarried and continued to live in the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion until his death in 1968. Since Humphreys' death, the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion has changed hands several times.
Some interesting facts of the 3 story Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion is that it was built with 9 bedrooms and 9 bathrooms on .85 acres. Built on a grand scale, of the three dining rooms in the manison, the main dining room can seat 50 for dinner. There is a drawing room on the main floor that is over 40 feet long and the entry hall is over 50 feet in length. There is a theater stage and a bowling alley and mosaic swimming pool in the basement. The Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion is also served by an elevator that serves the upper bedrooms and a "prohibition room". The garage of the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion located at the back of the property is accessable to the main house by a tunnel. The Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion also was built with a separate heating plant located in the rear garage. In order to protect the home, Lena Stoiber had stolid steel shutters installed. 
The Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion was last purchased in 2005 for over $3,000,000 by a cable TV executive.
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