The Eagle River Inn is back. The hotel that was first built in the late 1800s has been a staple of Minturn on the north side of the Eagle River, across from thehistoric Minturn Saloonfor over a century. The new life that has been put back into this lodge is courtesy of some local investors and Tierney and Joe Delude, two Chicago transplants who met years ago in Aspen after graduating college.
“I had just graduated from Cornell and Joe graduated from Villanova and we met in Aspen during the winter of 1987-88 and we fell in love with Colorado. But then we moved to Chicago to get “real jobs” and raised five kids and as the last one was going off to college, we knew we wanted to get back to Colorado and this opportunity came up,” Tierney Delude said.
Joe Delude and his childhood friend, Rob Hahn, grew up in Ramsey, New Jersey. Joe had talked Hahn into coming out to work in Aspen after college and unlike Joe, Hahn never left Colorado and eventually got into real estate development.
“We would come out to Eagle County often to visit and one time I told Rob, ‘Look, I got you out to Colorado years ago, now you’ve got to get me back,’” Joe Delude said, and eventually, Hahn told the Delude’s about this opportunity in Minturn.
