Josie built and operated the Hupp Hotel She served as Estes Park’s postmaster between 1907 and 1914, and helped to charter the first bank in Estes Park.

 The thoroughly modern (steam heat, hot & cold running water) Hupp Hotel opened in 1906, and for two years was the only hotel on Elkhorn Avenue.  In 1908, the bigger Manford hotel was built where the Indian Village stands today.  Josie solved the competition problem by buying the Manford and renaming it the Hupp Annex.  At various times, she also built or managed the Hupp Annex, the Josephine Hotel, the Sherwood Hotel and the Manford Hotel.

 “The Hupp served as a meeting place for early Estes Park residents. The Estes Park bank was chartered in the dining room. A mass meeting in 1915 following the dedication of Rocky Mountain National Park resulted in the decision to send Enos Mills off to Washington to ask Congress for appropriations for roads and trails in the new park. The Hupp had the reputation of a fine dining room and was open year-round. Early photographs of downtown Estes Park prominently show the Hupp. The hotel was Estes Park’s best known landmark for years.”

Several of Josie Hupp's properties:  at left, the Hupp Annex, at right the Hupp Hotel, and in distance with barn-roof, the Sherwood Hotel

1981 - 1957 Architect and artist from Omaha NebraskaStudied at the Arts Institute of Chicago, and the Ecole de Beaux-Arts, Paris.  Examples of his work are held by the Art Institute of Omaha and the Los Angeles Art Museum.

Mark Levings began etching in 1906 while studying in Paris at the Ecole de Beaux-Arts.  Etching was experiencing a boom in popularity at the time due to the works of Whistler, and Levings and some other students got someone to teach them how to make etchings.

Taught Lyman Byxbe the art of etching in 1926.  "According to Byxbe's daughter Alice, his first etching was so good technically that Levings told him to go home.  He didn't need Levings help."
Robert Crump - The Prints of Lyman Byxbe

1880 - 1935, Enos Mills lesser known, although most accomplished brother Joe left Kansas in 1899 for his first visit to Estes Park.

He attended college at the Colorado Agricultural College, now known as CSU.  Although weighing in at 129 pounds, he was an accomplished athlete, and played football, baseball, basketball, and ran track there.  He pursued athletics, and coached at Baylor, CSU and CU, and worked with his brother Enos, managing the Long's Peak Inn for several summers.

The brother's then had a falling out and went their separate ways, often thereafter often opposing one another on controversial issues.

Joe Mills managed the Forks Hotel in Drake, then opened the Crags Hotel (see Photo by FP Clatworthy), which formally opened July 4th 1914.  He managed it until his death in 1935.

Joe wrote two books, including A Mountain Boyhood, published in Boy's Life, which recounted his first visit to Estes in 1899, and numerous articles for local and national publications.

At the Emporia Gazette