| Little Red is located in the heart of downtown Aspen on Cooper Avenue, named after Captain Isaac Cooper, one of four companions of B. Clark Wheeler, for whom Aspen’s Wheeler Opera House is named. Wheeler led his group to Ute City and formed the Aspen Town and Land Company. Wheeler’s group established legal rights to the town by virtue of a survey his group created in February 1880 at which time he changed the town’s name to Aspen. Three months later Wheeler’s group leveraged their right by laying the town’s first subdivision, including the famed Cooper Street location of Little Red. By promising to sell each lot occupied by squatters claiming the age-old custom of “squatters rights” for 10 dollars, and further promising to build roads and a smelter, Wheeler’s group overcame opposition. However, land claim disputes still trouble the county’s courts.
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