Pennock House
The Pennock House, was built in 1912, at 415 Coffman Street in Longmont, Colorado by Dr. Vivian R. Pennock. Dr. Pennock was the first youth to graduate from Longmont schools. He also graduated from the University of Colorado with a medical degree and practiced in Silver Plume and Cripple Creek.
About 1903, Dr. Pennock and his wife, Lillian Large and their three children moved back to Longmont where Dr. Pennock had a private practice, and helped build Longmont’s first hospital, at Fourth Avenue and Coffman Street.
When Dr. Pennock returned to Longmont, he bought, and moved into, a frame house at 415 Coffman Street. In 1912 the house was torn down, and the present, imposing, two-story brick home was built.
O. B. Robbins built the Robbins Flower Shop at 421 Coffman Street consisting of a bugalow shop and greenhouses with help of his new son-in-law Robert Leonard (married Neva Robbins).
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Robert and Neva Leonard purchased the house from Dr. Pennock in 1941.
Longmont Developing Company purchased the property in 1975.
The St. Vrain Historical Society documents the history of the Pennock family in the book “They Came to Stay”. Dr. Pennock’s father was Porter R. Pennock who married Ellen Coffin and lived on the Left Hand Creek in the 1860s.
The home is located in the original plan of the Chicago-Colorado Colony and is currently owned by Ms. Ladon Smith who owns and operates The Men's Room hair salon.
The home features unique architecture characteristics including decorative braces and brickwork.
Other related houses include:
Morse Coffin House
Williams-Pennock House
Dr. Vivian Pennock is also mentioned in the a recent Longmont Clinic 100th Anniversary Newsletter (click here for more details).
