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Home My WebLink Aboutcoa.Conner Park.History NAME: Milton Conner Memorial Park ADDRESS: 500 East Hopkins LEGAL DESCRIPTION: Lots N & O and west 22.5 feet of lot P, Block 93 DATE PURCHASED: 1/27/1965 th HOW FUNDED: 6 Penny LEGISLATION: City Council Meeting Minutes, 12/21/1964, pg.2. Resolution 16, 1983 DEED: Reception No. 119827 recorded January 27, 1965 Harald “Shorty” Pabst was Mayor in 1964 and purchased Lots N and O and West 22.5 feet of Lot P, behind City Hall which he purchased for $15,750 and then sold to the city. Resolution #16, 1983, named the property, in perpetuity, “Milton Conner Memorial Park”. Conner acted as guardian of the Fraternal Hall Building (City Hall) from 1928 until September 1944, when he participated in the granting of a perpetual lease of the building to the City. From 1944 until the mid 1970’s, he was instrumental in preserving this historic structure and in transferring permanent title to the property to the people of Aspen in 1956.