This fine log structure was once a Fairplay pioneer home. It was moved to South Park City in 1960. It now houses the Sumner Collection, donated in 1976 by Myrtle and Lawson D. Sumner and Carl Gilley of Lake George, Colorado. The exhibit consists of early Indian artifacts, mining, trapping, and Victorian curiosities of the early west. It is a fantastic display with each article named and described. One can spend hours in this one building and ponder over the mementos of our country's early explorers, miners, and pioneers.
When Myrtle and Lawson opened a store in Lake George in the early 1930s, their things on display were interesting to their customers and good for business. A few years after World War II, they set up the collection in what had been an old dance hall. The exhibit was open to the public during the Sumner family's many years in business. When they retired, the entire collection was donated to the South Park Historical Foundation Inc. Myrtle and Lawson set up the collection in South Park City in much the same way as it was in its original location at Lake George.
