Laramie 1937 Hitchcock House, Former UW Presidents' Home, Listed for $1.03M

1306 Ivinson Ave., Laramie’s 1937 Hitchcock House, has hit the market with an asking price of $1.03 million for a nearly 5,000-square-foot residence that once housed University of Wyoming presidents. The property, described in local coverage as “not quite a mansion,” carries a prominent campus address directly across from Coe Library.

The house entered university hands in the postwar era: “Purchased as the home for UW’s presidents in 1949, it was first occupied by George ‘Duke’ Humphrey and all succeeding presidents until Terry Roark,” the Wyoming Almanac notes, adding that trustees sold the house in the 1990s when they opted to pay presidents a housing allowance rather than maintain a residential property near campus. The almanac further records that initial purchasers after the trustees’ sale had close ties to Laramie and UW and that “The Williamsons sold the house in 2016.”

Architecturally, the property sits in Laramie’s known Hitchcock milieu. VisitLaramie photo captions call 1306 Ivinson Ave. “This attractive Tudor” and record a distinctive midcentury feature: “In the 1960s the house had the only outdoor residential swimming pool in Laramie, but it was filled in after about eight years.” ArchivesWest holdings link multiple U.W. projects and a “U.W. Presidents house” to W.A. Hitchcock job lists — for example, “W.A. HITCHCOCK JOB NUMBERS 364-381: … U.W. Presidents house …” (Box 4, Folder 1; Dates: 1916-1923) — and include a biographical entry for Eliot Hitchcock noting an engineering degree from UW and a master’s from Iowa State College in 1937, wartime SeaBees service, and a 1946 reopening of his Laramie practice (Box 3, Folder 4).

The property’s immediate context is distinctly campus-adjacent. VisitLaramie places 1306 Ivinson Ave. “across the street” from Coe Library, described as “the main UW library, built in the International style in 1958,” and quotes that the library “has been expanded and remodeled recently in the latest iterations of modern international architecture, featuring curved lines, open floor plan, and large areas of glass.” Nearby historic properties cited in VisitLaramie include the Wilbur Hitchcock–designed Tudor Revival at 262 9th St. (built 1926), the Folk Victorian at 819 University Ave. (built 1910), and the Meldrum house at 703 Ivinson Ave. (built about 1888).

Market and media notes tied to the listing underscore public interest: the house’s listing attracted social‑media attention on the Zillow Gone Wild Reddit channel, and local coverage quipped that “One thing the tiny mansion at 1306 Ivinson Ave. in Laramie doesn’t lack for are chairs.” The current public listing identifies roughly 5,000 square feet and an asking price of $1.03 million; the supplied materials do not name the current owner or the buyer from the 2016 sale.

Archival records and the 1937 construction date cited in local descriptions present a reconciliation point for researchers and prospective buyers: ArchivesWest job lists that include a “U.W. Presidents house” are dated in the 1916–1923 and 1922–1923 ranges (Box 4, Folder 1; Box 3, Folder 5), while multiple local sources repeatedly describe the property as the “1937 Hitchcock House.” Those archival container citations can be requested for blueprint or job‑number confirmation.

The listing of 1306 Ivinson Ave. for $1.03 million places a campus‑edge Tudor with decades of university history — from George “Duke” Humphrey through Terry Roark and a 1960s outdoor pool — back into the market, highlighting the intersection of Laramie’s architectural heritage, Hitchcock family design ties, and demand for properties immediately adjacent to the University of Wyoming.