Edward Scott Harrison

Charles I.D. Looff was one of the great carousel makers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A skilled woodcarver, he arrived in New York City from Denmark in 1870 at the age of 18 and by 1876 had manufactured the first carousel for New York’s Coney Island. During his lifetime, he produced carousels for parks across the nation. In 1917, he delivered a carousel to the Great Saltair Park, just outside Salt Lake City, which would eventually find its way to Nederland, Colorado.