The Brunner Farmhouse is Broomfield's restored 1908 farm home

Drive along Midway Boulevard near Main Street and you will pass a tidy yellow house surrounded by flower gardens. That is the Brunner Farmhouse, one of the few old farm buildings Broomfield has kept as the city grew up around it.

The house dates to 1908, built early in the area’s farming years. It was the home for a farm of about 100 acres that grew corn, alfalfa, wheat, barley, and oats, and it later belonged to the Brunner family, whose name it still carries. As Broomfield developed, the farmhouse was moved in 1998 to its present spot on city open space, where it was restored rather than torn down.

Today the city owns the farmhouse and uses it as a community gathering place. A local nonprofit, the Broomfield Council on the Arts and Humanities, helps run it as meeting and office space, and local garden clubs and volunteers tend the flower gardens around it. So it is a working community building, not a roped-off museum, which is part of its charm.

If you want a calm, free way to touch Broomfield’s farm past, the Brunner Farmhouse grounds are a good stop, and the gardens are nicest in the warm months. For its history, who manages it, and how the space can be used, see the City and County of Broomfield’s Brunner Farmhouse pages.