Helmshire Hall, 2003
From CSU's Sense of Place: A Campus History of Colorado's Land-Grant University, by James E. Hansen, Gordon A. Hazard, and Linda M. Meyer. Fort Collins, CO: Colorado State University, 2018.
During 1998-99, the Colorado State University Research Foundation purchased the Helmshire Inn with the intent to use this bed and breakfast (built in 1985) as a conference center and guest house for University visitors. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education later stopped this project, viewing it as unfair competition to local hotels. During 2003-04, Housing and Food Services made the building a small residence hall for graduate students. In August 2005, a private owner purchased the property from CSU, and today it functions as a hotel and restaurant (Café Vino).
Sources by Gordon A. Hazard
1979 Fort Collins City Directory, Texaco Station.
1981 Fort Collins City Directory, ATC Auto-Truck Clinic at 1204.
1990 Fort Collins City Directory.
Rocky Mountain Collegian, March 5, 2002, page 1, vol. 110, number 107.
Rocky Mountain Collegian, March 4, 2004, pages 1 and 3, vol. 112, number 113.
Rocky Mountain Collegian, August 24, 2005, page 6a, vol. 114, number 12.
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