2249 Franklin Street was built in 1892 for owner Libor C. Reitze under building permit #1152. Z. E. Moncrieff is listed on the permit as the builder. A separate permit was pulled that same day for a brick barn. Although no architect or designer for the home was discovered in the course of research, a row of three “sister houses” were surveyed by Discover Denver in Capitol Hill at 1449, 1453, and 1457 Downing Street, indicating that these may have been built from a pattern design.
Libor was married to Lydia Knierin in 1888, and was associated, along with his brothers, with the L. C. Reitze & Brothers Wall Paper and Decorating Company. The 1900 census shows Libor and Lydia living at 2249 Franklin Street along with their daughters Edna and Cora and two female boarders. The Reitzes sold the home in 1914 to real estate investor George Bucklin.
