Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion - Name of The Mansion

Name of The Mansion

The name printed on the metal plate to the left of the main entrance is Stoiberhof. But over the years, the mansion has often been referred to as the Stoiber-Reed-Humphreys Mansion. This name may have been based on mistaken information. The first owners of the mansion were Ed and Lena Stoiber, tycoons of the Silver Lake Mine in Silverton CO. They named their mansion Stoiberhof. Ed Stoiber died in 1906 and Lena Stoiber married Hugh R. Rood, a wealthy businessman from Seattle in 1909. Hugh Rood died during a return trip from Europe in 1912 in the sinking of the RMS Titanic, making Lena Allen-Stoiber-Rood a widow for the third, but not last, time in her life. Shortly thereafter, Lena sold the house to A. E. Humphreys. The first three owners of Stoiberhof were the Stoiber, Rood, and Humphreys families. Over the years, the name Reed may have been substituted for the name Rood, the most likely reason being that Egbert W. Reed owned the house next door to Stoiberhof at 1040 Humboldt Street . The Reeds moved to California in 1912 .