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Agate Bluff Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/03/2017 - 16:37, last changed on 11/27/2022 - 08:52
The Agate Bluff Archaeological Site is a collection of four Late Prehistoric rockshelters located in a large bluff in northwest Weld County near the Wyoming border. In 1951–52 siblings Cynthia and Henry Irwin excavated the rockshelters and determined that they had been occupied by Plains Woodland...

Akron Gymnasium

Added by yongli on 11/03/2015 - 11:00, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
The Akron Gymnasium was a New Deal project built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1938–40. Designed by the prominent Denver architect Eugene Groves , with a distinctive domed roof and skylights, it served as Akron’s main gymnasium and community center until 1964. Though the structure...

Akron Public Library

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 12:30, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Located in the county seat of Washington County , the Akron Public Library occupies a one-story brick building constructed in 1931 at the corner of Main Avenue and East Third Street (302 Main Ave, Arkon, CO 80720). The building grew out of more than fifteen years of efforts by local women’s groups...

Alamosa County Courthouse

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 15:01, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
The Alamosa County Courthouse, located at 702 Fourth Street in Alamosa , was built by Works Progress Administration (WPA) workers between 1936 and 1938 to serve as an administrative and judicial headquarters for Alamosa County . The original structure included a jail, which was remodeled into...

All Souls Unitarian Church

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 16:38, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Completed in 1893, All Souls Unitarian Church—now known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church—stands at 730 North Tejon Street in Colorado Springs . Located close to the Colorado College campus, the church is notable for its distinctive Shingle architectural style and its association with the...

Alpine Tunnel Historic District

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 14:47, last changed on 08/27/2022 - 08:19
At 11,612 feet, the Alpine Tunnel Historic District preserves what was once North America’s highest narrow-gauge railroad tunnel. Completed in 1881 a few miles northeast of the small town of Pitkin , the tunnel helped connect Denver with the silver mines of the Gunnison region via the Denver, South...

American Legion Hall (Eads)

Added by yongli on 11/03/2015 - 13:46, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
The American Legion Hall at the Kiowa County Fairgrounds near Eads was a New Deal project built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1937–38. The hall is one of the best-preserved WPA buildings in Eads and remains an important site for community gatherings and entertainment. The Dust Bowl...

Ammons Hall

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 12:50, last changed on 11/11/2019 - 12:40
Located on the northwest corner of the Oval on the campus of Colorado State University in Fort Collins , Ammons Hall opened in 1922 as a women’s gymnasium and social center. Designed by Denver architect Eugene Groves , the Italian Renaissance Revival building signaled that the college recognized...

Ancestral Puebloans of the Four Corners Region

Added by yongli on 05/09/2016 - 14:21, last changed on 11/01/2022 - 19:36
Formerly labeled Anasazi, the Ancestral Puebloan culture is the most widely known of the ancient cultures of Colorado. The people who built the cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde and the great houses of Chaco Canyon were subsistence farmers of corn, beans, and squash. The structures of this culture date...

Animas Canyon Toll Road

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 16:38, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 09:44
The Animas Canyon Toll Road was built in 1876–78 to connect the mining town of Silverton to the coal beds and agricultural produce of the Animas Valley near what is now Durango . The roughly thirty-mile wagon road operated for about five years before it was overtaken by the Denver & Rio Grande...

Animas Forks

Added by yongli on 11/04/2015 - 13:55, last changed on 08/14/2022 - 21:18
Established in 1875 and occupied until the 1920s, Animas Forks is a ghost town northeast of Silverton in the San Juan Mountains . It sits at an elevation of about 11,200 feet. It survived primarily on the strength of speculative investment rather than productive mining , though several nearby...

Anne Evans Mountain Home

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 14:41, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
The Anne Evans Mountain Home is a rustic cottage built by Anne Evans at an elevation of about 8,200 feet on her family’s large ranch in the Upper Bear Creek watershed in eastern Clear Creek County . Completed in 1911, the house was notable for its vertical log construction and artistic interiors,...

Ashcroft

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 13:31, last changed on 11/20/2019 - 10:51
Located about eleven miles south of Aspen in Castle Creek Valley , Ashcroft was established in 1880 as a silver mining camp. It quickly grew to more than 2,000 residents and briefly rivaled Aspen, but it was already declining by the late 1880s because the veins of silver ore were shallow and no...

Astor House Hotel

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 11:36, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
The Astor House Hotel stands at 822 Twelfth Street in the City of Golden . Built in 1867, the Astor House remains Colorado’s oldest standing hotel and an enduring reminder of Colorado’s commercial development. Throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s, the Astor House served several changing...

Auraria (West Denver)

Added by yongli on 06/16/2021 - 09:20, last changed on 09/03/2022 - 08:34
Now home to the tri-institutional campus of Metropolitan State University of Denver , University of Colorado–Denver , and Community College of Denver , the Auraria neighborhood has a long and rich history predating the founding of Denver itself. Auraria is bordered by the South Platte River to the...

Bain’s Department Store

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:34, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 15:41
In 1935 Joe Bain and his son, Victor, opened Bain’s Department Store on Main Street in Alamosa . After Bain’s closed, Victor Bain continued to own the building for decades, renting it out to a variety of automobile dealers and appliance shops. In 1994 the local nonprofit La Puente acquired the...

Barger Gulch Site

Added by yongli on 01/15/2020 - 15:28, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 22:21
There are few places in western North America richer in Paleo-Indian archaeology than Middle Park , the valley that forms the headwaters of the Colorado River in Grand County . Within Middle Park, the Barger Gulch area preserves an impressive amount of evidence from early humans, with sites dating...

Barney Ford's People's Restaurant

Added by Nick Johnson on 12/10/2015 - 14:58, last changed on 11/18/2019 - 13:19
In 1863 the black pioneer Barney L. Ford built the People’s Restaurant at 1514 Blake Street in Denver . The success of the restaurant helped make Ford into one of the the state’s most influential black business and civic leaders. Although the building has undergone extensive alterations since Ford’...

Barr Trail

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 11:38, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 11:44
Barr Trail is a 12.6-mile trail that climbs about 7,500 feet from Manitou Springs to the summit of Pikes Peak , with an average grade of 11 percent. Surveyed and constructed by Fred Barr in 1918–21, Barr Trail was the first trail to reach the summit via the mountain’s steep east slope. Today the...

Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots

Added by yongli on 10/26/2016 - 14:26, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
The Beatrice Willard Alpine Tundra Research Plots were established in 1959 by Beatrice Willard at two high-altitude locations along Trail Ridge Road in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP). Willard’s studies at the plots and elsewhere in the park were among the first to examine how visitors were...

Beaumont Hotel

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 11:59, last changed on 09/16/2017 - 01:07
When it opened in 1887, the Beaumont Hotel in Ouray was one of the finest hotels in the Rocky Mountains. After several successful decades, its fortunes declined along with Ouray’s mining economy, and it eventually closed in the 1960s. In 2005 the hotel was reopened after an extensive rehabilitation...

Beckwith Ranch

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 15:11, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 08:11
Located about five miles north of Westcliffe in the Wet Mountain Valley , Beckwith Ranch was established in 1870 by brothers Edwin and Elton Beckwith and grew to be one of the largest cattle operations in south-central Colorado. In the 1880s and 1890s the Beckwiths built an elaborate headquarters...

Bemis Hall

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 14:33, last changed on 10/04/2019 - 10:53
Constructed in 1908, Bemis Hall stands at 920 North Cascade Avenue in Colorado Springs . A three-and-a-half story dormitory building located on the Colorado College campus, Bemis Hall is historically significant as an early example of a coeducational dormitory and for its distinctive architecture...

Bent County Courthouse and Jail

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 13:31, last changed on 08/20/2018 - 01:07
The Bent County Courthouse, located on Courthouse Square in the county seat of Las Animas , opened in 1889 to serve as the county’s administrative and legal center. The county jail opened next to the courthouse in 1912 and was used for nearly a century to house sheriffs and process inmates. The...

Bent's Forts

Added by Nick Johnson on 05/06/2016 - 10:52, last changed on 11/27/2022 - 09:06
In the early and mid-nineteenth century, when the western United States was in a seemingly unending state of flux as people competed for dominance over the land and its resources, three men moved to what would eventually become southeastern Colorado and there established a trading and commercial...

Bingham Rural Historic Landscape

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 14:36, last changed on 05/04/2020 - 10:12
Established in 1864, Bingham Rural Historic Landscape, also known as the Koeper-Doty Farm, stands at 49816 West Bingham Hill Road (CR50-E) in Bellvue , about five miles northwest of Fort Collins in unincorporated Larimer County . The property functioned as a successful farm for nearly a century and...

Boggsville

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 13:48, last changed on 08/12/2022 - 07:36
Founded in 1866 near the confluence of the Arkansas and Purgatoire Rivers, Boggsville became the first permanent settlement in southeastern Colorado. Its residents pioneered irrigation and large-scale farming and ranching in the Arkansas Valley. The town flourished for a few years. In the 1870s,...

Bonfils Memorial Theatre

Added by yongli on 10/07/2016 - 16:34, last changed on 12/31/2020 - 01:07
The Bonfils Memorial Theatre on East Colfax Avenue was built by Helen Bonfils for the Denver Civic Theatre in 1953. As the first theater for live performances built in Denver in forty years, the cream-colored building staged more than 400 productions before it closed in 1986. It sat mostly...

Boston Building

Added by yongli on 01/25/2021 - 17:14, last changed on 01/25/2021 - 17:14
Located at 828 Seventeenth Street in Denver , the Boston Building opened in 1890. Hailed by early historian Jerome Smiley as “the first of the strictly modern office buildings” in the city, the Boston Building signaled the emergence of Seventeenth Street as the “Wall Street of the Rockies” and...

Bradford-Perley House

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:33, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 21:39
The Bradford-Perley House was originally built in about 1860 to serve as a station house along Robert Bradford ’s wagon road to mining areas in the Rocky Mountains . Located in what is now Ken-Caryl Ranch southwest of Denver , the house later became the headquarters of the Perley family’s ranching...

Breckenridge Historic District

Added by yongli on 11/04/2015 - 15:27, last changed on 09/30/2022 - 02:43
Settled as a gold-mining camp in 1859, Breckenridge has gone through a series of booms and busts typical of Colorado’s mining towns. The advent of skiing in the 1960s revived the town after decades of stagnation, bringing modern development but also greater interest in historic preservation. Today...

Broomfield Depot

Added by yongli on 12/07/2017 - 12:21, last changed on 02/14/2020 - 15:42
The Broomfield Depot was built in 1909 to serve the Colorado & Southern and Denver & Interurban Railroads . It is a rare surviving example of a combination passenger and freight depot that also served both steam railroad and electric interurban lines, and it is the only Denver &...

Brown Palace Hotel

Added by yongli on 08/26/2016 - 15:51, last changed on 08/12/2021 - 07:02
Financed by and named after the early Denver developer Henry C. Brown , the Brown Palace Hotel opened on Broadway in 1892 in an elegant triangular building that was the tallest in the city at the time. For much of the twentieth century the hotel was owned by the Boettcher family , which expanded it...

Buckhorn Exchange

Added by yongli on 08/26/2016 - 15:57, last changed on 11/27/2022 - 09:07
Located at 1000 Osage Street, just south of Lincoln Park, the Buckhorn Exchange is Denver’s oldest operating restaurant. Established by Henry H. Zietz in 1893, the restaurant has occupied the same building for more than 120 years and is known for its interior stuffed with Western memorabilia and...

Buffalo Peaks Ranch

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:14, last changed on 11/30/2022 - 23:37
Buffalo Peaks Ranch is one of the oldest ranches in South Park , with roots in Adolphe and Marie Guiraud’s 1862 homestead along the Middle Fork of the South Platte River between Hartsel and Fairplay . Over the next eighty years, three generations of the Guiraud family gradually expanded the ranch...

Buford School

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 14:15, last changed on 04/16/2020 - 13:12
The one-room Buford School (174-566 New Castle Buford Rd, Meeker, CO 81641) was built in 1902 and served local students for fifty years. After the building stopped being used as a school in 1952, it was renovated and converted into a community center. It continues to serve as the headquarters of...

Burlington Gymnasium

Added by yongli on 02/02/2017 - 15:25, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Burlington Gymnasium was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1938–41 and served as a gym, auditorium, and community center until 1999. Located on Senter Avenue between Ninth and Eleventh Streets, the two-story Art Deco facility was originally next to the Burlington High School...

Byers-Evans House

Added by yongli on 03/13/2020 - 14:45, last changed on 11/08/2022 - 10:42
Built in 1883, the Byers-Evans House at 1310 Bannock Street in Denver is a Victorian mansion notable for its association with two of the city’s most influential early families. William Byers , who built the house, had established the city’s first newspaper, the Rocky Mountain News , and during his...

Byron White US Courthouse

Added by yongli on 02/15/2022 - 14:23, last changed on 02/15/2022 - 14:23
Opened in 1916 as the main Denver Post Office and Federal Building, this four-story Greek temple (1823 Stout Street) is Colorado’s finest Neoclassical Revival structure. It represented the growing role of the federal government in a city that now has one of the largest concentrations of federal...

Calhan Paint Mines

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:46, last changed on 07/08/2021 - 14:29
Located near Calhan , about thirty-five miles northeast of Colorado Springs , the Calhan Paint Mines are an area of clay deposits that have seen extensive prehistoric habitation and historic quarrying of the clay for pottery and bricks. In the 1990s, archaeological fieldwork at the site revealed...

California Gulch Superfund Site

Added by yongli on 10/11/2021 - 16:52, last changed on 11/09/2022 - 04:41
Established by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 1983, the California Gulch Superfund Site encompasses about eighteen square miles in central Lake County , including the city of Leadville . One of the nation’s first Superfund sites, it was created to clean up heavy-metal pollution...

Callahan House

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:07, last changed on 04/08/2020 - 11:11
Built in 1892 by local businessman James K. Sweeny, the Victorian mansion at Third and Terry Streets in Longmont was acquired by Thomas and Alice Callahan, two of the city’s leading residents, in 1896. The Callahans conducted extensive renovations and additions to the home before donating it to the...

Camp Hale

Added by yongli on 09/10/2015 - 11:52, last changed on 11/30/2022 - 13:41
Built in the Pando Valley north of Leadville in 1942, Camp Hale served as the training grounds for the US Army’s Tenth Mountain Division during World War II. Troops learned to ski, snowshoe, and climb at the camp, allowing them to perform important operations in northern Italy in early 1945. Many...

Capilla de San Isidro

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:16, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Built in about 1894, Capilla de San Isidro is a Catholic church in Los Fuertes in the San Luis Valley . The church is dedicated to St. Isidore, the patron saint of farming, and continues to play an important role in the local community, with Mass celebrated in Spanish during the summer. In 2013 the...

Capilla de San Juan Bautista (Church of Saint John the Baptist)

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:21, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in La Garita in the northwestern San Luis Valley , Capilla de San Juan Bautista was built in 1924–26 as a Catholic mission church. It replaced an earlier church on the same site, which served as the area’s parish church from 1879 to 1895 but burned down in 1924. After the church was...

Capilla de Viejo San Acacio

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 12:58, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Founded in the 1850s or 1860s by Hispano settlers near the Culebra River, the Catholic Capilla de Viejo San Acacio in the San Luis Valley is the oldest non–Native American religious space in Colorado. Over the years the church has had many repairs and renovations to stabilize the structure, as well...

Cardinal Mill

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 16:14, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 03:39
Located about two miles west of Nederland in western Boulder County , the Cardinal Mill processed gold, silver, and tungsten ore from its parent mine, the Boulder County Tunnel, as well as other local mines between 1902 and 1942. The Cardinal Mill was an essential part of the area’s tungsten boom...

Casa Mayan

Added by yongli on 10/28/2021 - 12:09, last changed on 09/03/2022 - 08:35
Between 1946 and 1973, the Casa Mayan (1020 Ninth Street) served as a restaurant in the Auraria neighborhood of west Denver as well as a family home and multicultural meeting place for writers, musicians, artists, athletes, architects, politicians, and others. The Gonzalez family owned the...

Castlewood Dam

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 12:53, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 09:13
Built in 1890 along Cherry Creek south of Franktown, Castlewood Dam was meant to help irrigate Douglas County farms. In 1933 the dam gave way, unleashing a fifteen-foot surge of water on Denver and ultimately spurring development of the Cherry Creek Dam to prevent future flooding . Today the ruins...

Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception

Added by yongli on 08/26/2016 - 16:12, last changed on 03/04/2021 - 01:07
Completed in 1912, the Cathedral Basilica of the Immaculate Conception, on East Colfax Avenue in Denver , was the result of decades of effort on the part of the city’s early Catholic community. Sometimes called the “Pinnacled Glory of the West,” the building’s elegant Gothic Revival design and twin...

Cayton Ranger Station

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:09, last changed on 01/30/2021 - 09:33
The Cayton Ranger Station (also known as the Cayton Guard Station) sits just inside the White River National Forest , about eighteen miles south of Silt, Colorado. Built between 1909 and 1910 by James Grimshaw Cayton, one of the nation’s first rangers, the station originally consisted of an L-...

Central City Opera House

Added by admin on 07/15/2015 - 14:12, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 17:42
Built in 1878, the Central City Opera House is the oldest opera house in Colorado. Though it declined along with Central City’s economy in the 1880s, it puttered along as a theater and movie house until owner Peter McFarlane finally closed its doors in 1927. Five years later, the building was...

Central City–Black Hawk Historic District

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 14:19, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 01:43
Central City and Black Hawk took shape during the boom years after John Gregory discovered gold on May 6, 1859, near the North Fork of Clear Creek in what is now Gilpin County . For much of the 1860s and 1870s, the area was the richest mining region in Colorado, and Central City rivaled Denver as...

Chaco Canyon

Added by yongli on 08/15/2016 - 13:02, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 19:41
In the eleventh century, Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico was the center of a Native American cultural region about the size of the state of Indiana. It encompassed most of southwestern Colorado, from Chimney Rock National Monument on the east to Far View House at Mesa Verde National Park...

Cheesman Park

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:45, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 15:45
One of the jewels of Denver’s park and parkway system , Cheesman Park (1601 Race St, Denver, CO 80206) sits on land that originally served as the city’s first cemetery. In 1890 the cemetery was closed, many—but not all—graves were relocated, and a park designed by Denver’s first landscape architect...

Cherokee Ranch and Castle

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:20, last changed on 10/03/2019 - 10:53
Cherokee Ranch includes more than three thousand acres of land along US 85 near Sedalia in Douglas County . In the late nineteenth century, the land was homesteaded by the Blunt and Flower families. Denver businessman Charles Alfred Johnson acquired the Flower land in 1924 and hired Burnham Hoyt to...

Cheyenne County Jail

Added by yongli on 03/15/2016 - 15:01, last changed on 10/19/2022 - 06:39
Built in 1894, the Cheyenne County Jail represented the young county’s dedication to law and order and helped instill a sense of civic pride. It is the only surviving jail designed by the important early Colorado architect Robert S. Roeschlaub . After a new jail opened in 1961, the Roeschlaub-...

Chimney Rock

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 15:11, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 19:41
Located in the southwest corner of Colorado just north of the New Mexico border, the Chimney Rock Archaeological Area is home to hundreds of archaeological sites . One of these sites, the Chimney Rock Pueblo, is known for its dramatic setting high atop Stollsteimer Mesa, which is marked by two...

Church of the Holy Redeemer

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 15:31, last changed on 10/16/2019 - 08:49
Located at the southeast corner of East Twenty-Sixth Avenue and Williams Street in Denver ’s Whittier neighborhood, the Church of the Holy Redeemer is a 1910 Gothic Revival building designed by the Denver architects Fisher and Fisher . The church was originally home to St. Stephen’s Episcopal...

Churches Ranch

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 14:44, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 10:53
Originally established in 1863, Churches Ranch, also known as Long Lake Ranch Park, stands at 17999 West Sixtieth Avenue in Arvada . It is a typical example of a Ralston Valley farming and ranching operation. Churches Ranch is now owned by Denver Water , which maintains Ralston Reservoir and allows...

City Hall of Colorado City

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 15:23, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
The City Hall of Colorado City, located at 2902 West Colorado Avenue in what is now Colorado Springs , was built in 1888 to provide space for city offices, a jail, and a fire department for Old Colorado City . The building was used as a city hall for only four years, however, because it was too far...

City Park

Added by yongli on 08/29/2016 - 14:34, last changed on 10/18/2019 - 10:09
Established in 1882, City Park is Denver ’s largest urban park, occupying nearly 320 acres between East Seventeenth and East Twenty-Third Avenues from York Street to Colorado Boulevard. Designed primarily by civil engineers Henry Meryweather and Walter Graves in the 1880s and by Reinhard Schuetze...

Civic Center

Added by yongli on 10/10/2016 - 11:50, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 02:50
Named a National Historic Landmark in 2012, Civic Center is a complex of parks, civic buildings, and cultural institutions stretching between the State Capitol and the City and County Building in the heart of Denver . Plans for the complex, which was developed in stages from the 1890s to the 1930s...

Cleora Cemetery

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 15:03, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
Cleora Cemetery is a historic four-and-a-half-acre burial ground located on a hill south of the Arkansas River about two miles southeast of downtown Salida . Originally associated with the short-lived town of Cleora, the cemetery received its first burials around 1880 and was the only cemetery in...

Cliff Palace

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 14:48, last changed on 09/04/2021 - 12:31
Located in an alcove on the east wall of Cliff Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park , Cliff Palace is a 150-room cliff dwelling built by Ancestral Pueblo people in the 1200s. Diné ( Navajo ), Nuche ( Ute ), Apache , and Pueblo people knew of the structures well before rancher Richard Wetherill and...

Cokedale Historic District

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:27, last changed on 01/31/2021 - 16:44
Nestled along Reilly Creek about eight miles west of Trinidad in Las Animas County , the Cokedale Historic District represents an excellent example of an early twentieth-century coal camp in the Raton Basin coalfield. In 1906 the American Smelting and Refining Company started construction in the...

Collegiate Peaks Stampede Rodeo Grounds

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:16, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Collegiate Peaks Stampede Rodeo Grounds southwest of Buena Vista was built in 1940 using funds from the Works Progress Administration . The rodeo grew out of Buena Vista’s annual Head Lettuce Day celebration and gradually developed into a two-day event considered one of the top small-purse...

Colorado Building

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 15:00, last changed on 02/09/2023 - 03:39
The Colorado Building at 409 North Main Street in Pueblo was built in 1925 on the site of the former Grand Opera House. The four-story rectangular building housed many of Pueblo’s major artistic and commercial outfits throughout the twentieth century, including the Publix Theater, the Southern...

Colorado Chautauqua

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Established in 1898 on what was then a barren mesa south of Boulder , Colorado Chautauqua has been providing education and entertainment programs for well over a century. Originally founded by Texas educators, the Chautauqua in Boulder was part of a nationwide movement emphasizing intellectual and...

Colorado Salt Works

Added by yongli on 12/02/2015 - 15:53, last changed on 12/01/2022 - 03:42
In 1866 the rancher and businessman Charles Hall added a kettle house and barn to his Colorado Salt Works in South Park . The only salt works and the second manufacturing facility built in Colorado, the buildings operated intermittently for several years before the arrival of the railroad brought...

Colorado Sanitary Canning Factory

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:32, last changed on 11/04/2019 - 13:48
The Colorado Sanitary Canning Factory at 224 North Main Street in Brighton was built in 1908 to serve as a processing facility for the growing South Platte agricultural community. The factory closed in 1936. Also known as the Brighton Prisoner of War Branch Camp, the facility helped house 589...

Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 15:16, last changed on 09/04/2017 - 01:07
The Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind (CSDB) was established in Colorado Springs in 1874 and is the only school of its kind in the state. The school’s buildings, constructed largely in the early twentieth century, were designed by major local architects such as Thomas Barber and are united...

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:34, last changed on 04/02/2020 - 01:07
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at 30 West Dale Street was built in 1936 as a community center for the visual and performing arts. Originally designed by John Gaw Meem using a mix of Pueblo Revival and Art Deco styles, the Fine Arts Center houses art galleries, teaching facilities, art...

Colorado State Capitol

Added by yongli on 05/18/2022 - 13:35, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 09:53
Colorado’s iconic, gold-domed Capitol looks out over the city of Denver from atop Brown’s Bluff, exactly one mile above sea level. Built between 1886 and 1908, the Capitol’s exterior remains largely original, but the interior has been subject to modernization and modification. The Capitol is part...

Colorado State Fairgrounds

Added by yongli on 12/03/2015 - 11:07, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 17:45
Opened in 1901, the Colorado State Fairgrounds in Pueblo have long played an important role in the state’s agriculture, education, and entertainment. Farmers and ranchers attend the fair to display their products, see new technologies and techniques, and buy livestock, while others come to learn...

Colorado State Museum

Added by yongli on 02/08/2021 - 16:03, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 13:43
The Colorado State Museum (200 E. Fourteenth Avenue, Denver ) opened in 1915 as the first stand-alone home for the Colorado Historical Society (now History Colorado ). The last work of Frank E. Edbrooke , Colorado’s best-known architect of the late 1800s and early 1900s, the building has the...

Colorado Women's Prison

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 14:42, last changed on 02/16/2018 - 13:49
The Colorado Women’s Prison in Cañon City was built in 1935, after three previous women’s buildings at the State Penitentiary had been appropriated for other uses. Standing just east of the penitentiary walls, the women’s prison housed female inmates from Colorado and several other states until the...

Comanche Crossing

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 14:24, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 18:01
On August 15, 1870, the first permanent railroad link across the United States from the Atlantic Coast to the Pacific Coast was completed when the final spike was driven in the Kansas Pacific Railway at Comanche Crossing in northeast Colorado. The exact spot is just east of Strasburg, near railroad...

Concilio Superior

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 13:34, last changed on 11/15/2022 - 19:41
The Concilio Superior building in Antonito is the headquarters of La Sociedad Protección Mutua de Trabajadores Unidos (SPMDTU; Society for the Mutual Protection of United Workers), a mutual-aid society established in 1900 to protect Hispano workers in the San Luis Valley from discrimination and to...

Cortez High School

Added by yongli on 05/23/2018 - 13:32, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 12:54
Cortez High School, built in 1909 at 121 East First Street in Cortez , was for decades the only public school serving kindergarten through high school in the city. In 1968 the school closed and became the home of school district offices. Today, a Kansas City investment group is attempting to...

Cottonwood Cave

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 12:42, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 19:40
Located near Cottonwood Creek on the Uncompahgre Plateau in Montrose County , Cottonwood Cave is a prehistoric site from the Basketmaker II period (400 BCE–400 CE) of the Ancestral Puebloan tradition. Excavated in 1947 by Clarence T. Hurst , the cave yielded a buried cache of corn that was later...

Country Club Historic District

Added by yongli on 06/15/2021 - 17:09, last changed on 06/29/2021 - 12:48
Denver ’s Country Club Historic District has been one of the most prestigious and exclusive neighborhoods in Colorado for more than a century. Originally developed in conjunction with the Denver Country Club , which opened just to the south in 1904, the district contains 380 residences and has...

Cozens Ranch

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 16:34, last changed on 12/30/2020 - 01:07
Built in 1874 by pioneer homesteader William Zane Cozens , Cozens Ranch was an important early ranch and stage stop in the Fraser River valley in north-central Colorado. The ranch also served for nearly thirty years as the area’s main post office. The Cozens family later donated the ranch to the...

Cramer Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 15:44, last changed on 10/10/2019 - 10:47
The Cramer Archaeological Site is an Apishapa phase site located near the mouth of Apishapa Canyon . Consisting of vertical stone slabs arranged to form at least two rooms, the site was probably used around 1250–1350 CE. In 1985–86 James Gunnerson performed extensive excavations at the site and...

Crawford and Louise Hill Mansion

Added by yongli on 06/16/2021 - 09:11, last changed on 06/29/2021 - 12:44
Built in 1905–6, the Crawford and Louise Hill Mansion at the corner of Tenth Avenue and Sherman Street in Denver stands as one of three remaining mansions from the affluent neighborhood that occupied the Sherman-Grant Historic District prior to the construction of apartment buildings (known as “...

Creede

Added by yongli on 08/09/2022 - 13:02, last changed on 03/17/2023 - 00:40
The last of Colorado’s great silver strikes, the town of Creede boomed after its namesake, Nicholas Creede, discovered silver along Willow Creek in 1889. An estimated 10,000 people poured into the narrow valley before the Panic of 1893 sent the town into a tailspin. Once crawling with miners and a...

Crested Butte

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:36, last changed on 02/16/2023 - 20:42
Founded in 1878, Crested Butte is a former coal-mining town turned ski resort nestled in the Elk Mountains of northern Gunnison County . The town lies about twenty-eight miles north of the county seat of Gunnison and about the same distance south of Aspen . At nearly 9,000 feet of elevation and...

Cripple Creek

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 15:15, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 12:44

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Cripple Creek was the site of the last and greatest mining boom in Colorado, attracting tens of thousands of people to the western flank of Pikes Peak in the 1890s. After it was destroyed by fire in 1896, the town and surrounding mining district reached peak production and population in the early...

Crowley School

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 14:47, last changed on 03/01/2023 - 06:12
Built in 1914, the Crowley School is the one of the oldest public buildings in Crowley County . It served as a schoolhouse and hosted community events until 1962. After years of deterioration, the building received a major restoration in the 1990s and now once again serves the community as a town...

Crystal Mill

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Built in 1892, the Crystal Mill is a log-and-frame structure atop a rocky outcrop along the Crystal River in northwest Gunnison County . At the time of its construction, the “mill” served as a powerhouse for local silver mines, allowing both the mines and the town of Crystal to stay afloat despite...

Daniels and Fisher Tower

Added by yongli on 10/10/2016 - 12:02, last changed on 11/24/2022 - 03:42
Rising 330 feet above Sixteenth Street , the Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver was based on St. Mark’s Campanile in Venice and opened in 1911 as a beacon drawing shoppers to the adjacent Daniels and Fisher department store. The Daniels and Fisher department store closed in 1958 and was demolished...

Daniels Park

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 15:14, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:54
Daniels Park (8682 N Daniels Park Rd, Sedalia, CO 80135) is a unit of the Denver Mountain Parks system located in an area of grassy buttes and ravines just west of Castle Pines in Douglas County . First established with a thirty-eight-acre donation from Florence Martin in 1920 and expanded to 1,000...

De Beque House

Added by yongli on 12/20/2016 - 14:05, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 18:16
The De Beque House was built in 1889 at 233 Denver Street in the town of De Beque, Mesa County . It was the home of Wallace A.E. de Beque , one of the town’s founders. The wood-frame house has remained mostly unchanged since de Beque’s death in 1930 and is the last surviving property that...

Dearfield

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 13:05, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 19:52
Established on May 5, 1910, by a young entrepreneur named Oliver Toussaint Jackson , Dearfield was an agricultural colony for Black people about twenty-five miles southeast of Greeley . For two decades nearly 700 Black people worked to transform the rolling desert hills into a thriving farm...

Debus Farm

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:35, last changed on 01/31/2021 - 17:21
The Debus Farm is a historic sugar beet farm in Logan County , located north of the South Platte River near the intersection of US 138 and County Road 67. Founded by the German Russian Debus family in 1925, the farm is a prominent example of the contributions that German Russian families made to...

Dent Site

Added by yongli on 05/09/2016 - 15:35, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 15:43
Early colonists occupied Colorado’s rich and ecologically diverse landscapes in the waning millennia of our planet’s most recent major Ice Age, the Pleistocene, between 14,000 and 12,000 years. Our best-documented evidence for Colorado’s earliest hunter and gatherer inhabitants, people we call...

Denver City and County Building

Added by yongli on 10/11/2021 - 16:59, last changed on 10/11/2021 - 16:59
Facing the State Capitol Building and completing the dominant east-west axis for Civic Center , Denver ’s City and County Building (300 W. Colfax Avenue) is the grandest monument of Mayor Robert Speer ’s City Beautiful efforts. The elegant neoclassical building houses the mayor, city council, many...

Denver City Cable Railway Building

Added by yongli on 07/09/2020 - 10:27, last changed on 11/09/2022 - 17:42
The Denver City Cable Railway Building (1201 Eighteenth Street) was built in 1889 as the company’s new headquarters and wheelhouse for its system of cable cars. As a central piece of Denver ’s large cable-car network, which was one of the most extensive in the country, the building helped made the...

Denver Country Club

Added by yongli on 06/15/2021 - 17:38, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 22:41
Established in 1887, the Denver Country Club is one of the oldest, most exclusive private social clubs in the West. The 1904 clubhouse and its surrounding 142 acres of landscaping are significant features in the city of Denver , situated along Cherry Creek between the Country Club , Cherry Creek ,...

Denver Mint

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 15:08, last changed on 08/26/2022 - 19:40
Established by Congress in 1862, the Denver Mint operated for more than four decades as an assay office, determining the quality of bullion but not producing any coins. In 1895 Congress authorized the mint to produce coins and also provided for a new building, which opened in 1904 at the corner of...

Denver Orphans’ Home

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 15:22, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
The Denver Orphans’ Home (DOH) was organized in 1881 to help alleviate the critical problem of supporting dependent children by offering short-term shelter to the offspring of families of limited means in crisis, as well as caring for orphans and other children who needed long-term shelter. In 1902...

Denver Performing Arts Complex

Added by yongli on 12/02/2021 - 11:17, last changed on 12/02/2021 - 11:17
The Denver Performing Arts Complex (DPAC) is a four-block, twelve-acre site that features nearly 10,600 seats across the Helen Bonfils Theatre Complex, Temple Hoyne Buell Theatre, Ellie Caulkins Opera House, Boettcher Concert Hall, Garner Galleria Theatre, and several smaller facilities. It is one...

Denver Tramway Powerhouse

Added by yongli on 07/09/2020 - 10:53, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 10:41
The Denver Tramway Powerhouse (1416 Platte Street) was built in 1901–4 to generate power for the Denver Tramway Company ’s extensive network of electric streetcars. From a 1911 expansion until the last electric streetcar service in 1950, the powerhouse served as the company’s main source of...

Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway Hill Route (Moffat Road)

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 14:44, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Construction on the Denver, Northwestern & Pacific Railway Hill Route, also known as the Moffat Road, began in 1904 and was completed in the late 1920s. The route connected the Front Range to Middle Park via Rollins Pass . Built in part on a former Ute trail and intended as a temporary route...

Devils Head Lookout

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:03, last changed on 07/26/2019 - 11:30
Located on a granite outcrop that is the highest point in the Rampart Range , the Devils Head Lookout has operated continuously as a US Forest Service fire lookout for more than a century. The first female fire lookout in the country, Helen Dowe , served at Devils Head from 1919 to 1921. The...

Dickens Opera House

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 13:36, last changed on 12/12/2019 - 01:07
In 1881–82 rancher and businessman William Henry Dickens built the Dickens Opera House at the corner of Third and Main Streets in downtown Longmont . The two-story opera house, with Dickens’s Farmers National Bank on the first floor and an auditorium on the second, served as an important community...

Dinosaur Ridge

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 15:41, last changed on 09/30/2022 - 07:41
Stretching north from Morrison to just south of Golden , Dinosaur Ridge became famous for the dinosaur fossils and tracks discovered there in 1877. The discoveries, which included the world’s first known Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus fossils, helped launch a “dinosaur rush” in the late nineteenth...

Dolores Cave

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 13:05, last changed on 10/14/2019 - 12:05
Located in Dolores River Canyon in Montrose County , Dolores Cave was occupied by several different peoples from at least 600 BCE to 1400 CE. Subject to extensive looting in the early twentieth century, the site was professionally excavated in 1946 by Clarence T. Hurst and in 1994 by Mark Stiger...

Donovan Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 15:47, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:57
Located about twenty miles south of the South Platte River in northeast Colorado, the Donovan Archaeological Site is a Late Prehistoric bison -processing area with evidence of multiple Upper Republican occupations between about 1000 and 1300 CE. The site was later used by Dismal River hunting...

Doud House

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 10:29, last changed on 11/13/2019 - 09:05
Located at 750 Lafayette Street in Denver’s East Seventh Avenue Historic District, the Doud House was built in 1905 and occupied by the Doud family from 1906 to 1960. It is significant for its association with Dwight and Mamie Doud Eisenhower, who were married in the house in 1916 and visited...

Downtown Loveland Historic District

Added by yongli on 05/16/2017 - 16:48, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Centered on East Fourth Street, the Downtown Loveland Historic District comprises nine square blocks of the town’s original commercial district. Most of the district lies within the original town plat, and at least fourteen of its fifty-eight buildings date to the late nineteenth century. On...

Dransfeldt Building

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:19, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 20:18
The Dransfeldt Building at 3431–35 South Broadway in Englewood was built in 1924 by local farmer Hans Dransfeldt. The north side of the building was occupied by the Englewood Herald and Enterprise for nearly three decades, while the south side served as a popular dairy and creamery in the days...

Draper Cave Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:38, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Draper Cave Archaeological Site contains evidence of human occupation dating back to the Middle Archaic period (3000–1000 BCE). In 1972 the Denver chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society excavated the site under the supervision of Ivol K. Hagar. The most important discovery was the...

Driggs Mansion

Added by yongli on 05/03/2017 - 16:52, last changed on 02/15/2020 - 01:07
Driggs Mansion is a one-story sandstone house in Unaweep Canyon that was built for Laurence Driggs around 1918. Constructed by Grand Junction stonemason Nunzio Grasso and his son, the house later served as a hunting retreat before parts of it were torn down in the 1940s and 1950s. Today the mansion...

Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 15:13, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Rising about 2,800 feet over its famously scenic forty-five-mile route, the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad was originally built in 1881–82 as part of the Denver & Rio Grande Railway ’s effort to reach the mines of the San Juan Mountains . For decades the line hauled ore from...

Eads Community Church

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 16:35, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 07:43
Located at the intersection of Eleventh and Goff Streets in Eads , the Eads Community Church is the oldest, largest, and best-preserved religious building in Kiowa County . Construction on the building began in 1923 under William Stickney, but it was not completed until 1951 when John James Wallace...

East High School

Added by yongli on 06/29/2021 - 16:31, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 22:51
Built in 1925, East High School (1545 Detroit Street, Denver ) is a public school that exemplifies the City Beautiful Movement ’s dedication to placing schools in generous park-like settings and making them lessons in distinctive design. East is prominently situated south of City Park along the...

Edward T. Taylor House

Added by yongli on 09/10/2015 - 16:45, last changed on 11/07/2019 - 11:16
Longtime Colorado state senator and US Congressman Edward T. Taylor (1858–1941) built his house in downtown Glenwood Springs (903 Bennett Ave, Glenwood Springs, CO 81601) in 1904. Taylor lived in the house whenever he was in Colorado during the three decades he served in the US House of...

Egyptian Theatre

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 15:33, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
Built in 1928, the Egyptian Theatre in Delta was designed in the Egyptian Revival style by Denver architect Montana S. Fallis . The theater is perhaps best known as the site where the nationwide Depression-era “Bank Night” movie promotion began in 1933. The theater experienced a long period of...

El Corazon de Trinidad National Historic District

Added by yongli on 03/15/2016 - 15:22, last changed on 09/04/2021 - 12:18
El Corazon de Trinidad (“the heart of Trinidad”) National Historic District covers a particularly well-preserved portion of downtown Trinidad that includes many blocks of adobe and brick buildings from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Established in 1861 along the Santa Fé Trail...

El Pomar Estate

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:47, last changed on 08/18/2022 - 07:25
The El Pomar Estate at 1661 Mesa Avenue in Colorado Springs was originally built in 1909 as a private residence for Grace Goodyear Depew. Following her death, prominent Colorado businessman and philanthropist Spencer Penrose purchased and improved the estate. Penrose died in 1939 and the estate was...

El Pueblo

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 16:09, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Established in 1842, El Pueblo (301 N Union Ave, Pueblo, CO 81003) was an independent adobe trading post that operated at the site of the present-day city of Pueblo and was used by a diverse, multi-ethnic group of trappers, traders, women, and mountain men. Largely abandoned after an 1854 attack by...

Emmanuel Shearith Israel Chapel

Added by yongli on 10/10/2016 - 12:09, last changed on 08/09/2018 - 01:07
Located at what was once the corner of Tenth and Lawrence Streets in the middle of the Auraria Higher Education Center , Emmanuel Shearith Israel Chapel is the oldest surviving religious building in Denver . Built in 1876–77 as the Emmanuel Episcopal Church, the building was sold in 1903 to the...

Empire Chief Mine and Mill

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:18, last changed on 08/27/2022 - 08:19
The Empire Chief Mine and Mill site is an abandoned nineteenth-century metal mining complex in Hinsdale County , located several miles west of Lake City on the southern slope of Sheep Mountain (83 Sunny Ave, Empire, CO 80438). The mine was established in 1885 after the discovery of the Bonanza Lode...

Englewood Post Office

Added by yongli on 11/10/2015 - 12:45, last changed on 10/16/2019 - 09:19
The 1938 Englewood post office building on South Broadway is notable for its large lobby mural by Boardman Robinson (1876–1952), an important art educator, political cartoonist, and founder of the American mural movement. The work is Robinson’s only post office mural and one of three major Robinson...

Equitable Building

Added by yongli on 10/19/2020 - 17:21, last changed on 10/21/2020 - 11:41
The Equitable Building (730 Seventeenth Street) is located in the heart of downtown Denver ’s financial district. Built in 1892 as the town’s premier office structure, it arguably still is. It also signaled that eastern capitalists had begun focusing on Denver as the most promising location for...

Fairmount Cemetery

Added by yongli on 01/21/2021 - 15:36, last changed on 01/21/2021 - 16:08
Fairmount Cemetery is Colorado’s most prominent and populous burial ground and mortuary. Founded in 1890 in southeast Denver , it is the city’s second-oldest active cemetery after Riverside (1876). Today the 280-acre cemetery is home to some 180,000 interments, including prominent Coloradans such...

Fairplay

Added by yongli on 08/24/2022 - 13:53, last changed on 11/27/2022 - 08:49
Fairplay is one of Colorado’s oldest mining and ranching towns. Situated in South Park in the mountains of central Colorado, it was part of the homelands of the Nuche or Ute people when US settlement began in 1859 during the Colorado Gold Rush . Gold seekers initially headed for Tarryall, the first...

Fairplay Hotel

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 12:54, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 19:41
The Fairplay Hotel was designed in the Rustic style by architect William Bowman and completed in 1922. Located on the site of an earlier hotel at the prominent corner of Fifth and Main Streets, the Fairplay became the largest and oldest hotel in town, hosting club meetings and dinner dances as well...

Far View Sites

Added by yongli on 06/23/2016 - 10:50, last changed on 12/19/2019 - 01:07
The Far View group at Mesa Verde National Park consists of more than twenty sites, five of which have been excavated. Far View House began as an eleventh-century Great House and part of the region centered on Chaco Canyon . Many of the surrounding sites in the Far View Group were first built in the...

Farmers State Bank of Cope

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 16:49, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 14:43
Farmers State Bank of Cope ( Washington County ) opened in 1918 at the southwest corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue. The first and only bank that ever operated in Cope, Farmers State Bank was founded and led largely by local women until the Great Depression and Dust Bowl forced its closure...

First Baptist Church of Moffat

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 13:13, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
The First Baptist Church of Moffat is a two-story concrete-block building constructed in 1911 at the corner of Fourth and Lincoln Streets (401 Lincoln Avenue, Moffat, Colorado). In the 1920s, residents bought the church from the Baptist Association to prevent it from being moved after the shrinking...

Fitzsimons General Hospital

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 13:22, last changed on 02/08/2020 - 01:07
Established east of Denver in 1918, Fitzsimons General Hospital was originally established as an army hospital specializing in treating soldiers infected with tuberculosis during World War I. After struggling with small budgets and the threat of closure, the facility expanded with the addition of a...

Five Points

Added by yongli on 08/29/2016 - 14:40, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 02:50
Bordered roughly by the South Platte River to the northwest, Thirty-Eighth Street to the north, Downing Street to the east, Park Avenue and East Twentieth Avenue to the south, and Twentieth Street to the southwest, Five Points is a historic neighborhood near downtown Denver that was home to the...

Flattop Butte

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 15:52, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 22:17
Located northwest of Sterling , Flattop Butte is a rock outcrop that was used extensively by prehistoric peoples as a source of stone for tools. The butte has a Chadron Formation capstone that is the only major bedrock source of high-quality stone between central Kansas/Nebraska and the Rocky...

Florence Post Office

Added by yongli on 01/31/2017 - 15:16, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 20:33
The Florence Post Office was built in 1936–37 as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. The building has a simple Neoclassical design with some Art Deco details and a mural by Olive Rush in the lobby. In 1986 the post office was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is...

Fort Davy Crockett

Added by yongli on 05/09/2016 - 16:19, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
Fort Davy Crockett was one of three known nineteenth-century forts and trading posts on the western side of the Rocky Mountains, in the drainage systems of the Green and Colorado Rivers. From the mid-1830s to 1840, Fort Davy Crockett, along with Fort Uncompahgre and Fort Uintah, served as centers...

Fort Garland

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 15:53, last changed on 11/26/2022 - 10:41
The US Army operated Fort Garland in the San Luis Valley for twenty-five years, from 1858 to 1883. The fort was built to protect early settlers from Native American raids in the years before treaties, reservations, and removal made that mission obsolete. After decades of neglect, the fort was...

Fort Logan National Cemetery

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:33, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 09:52
Fort Logan National Cemetery is located at the intersection of South Sheridan Boulevard and West Kenyon Avenue in southwest Denver . It started in 1889 as the small post cemetery at Fort Logan . The fort was closed after World War II , but in 1950 the cemetery became the seed of a newly designated...

Fort Morgan State Armory

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 11:03, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Built in 1922, the Fort Morgan State Armory is located at 528 State Street in Fort Morgan in northeast Colorado (528 State St, 80701 Fort Morgan, United States). It served as headquarters of Company M, Seventeenth Infantry of the Colorado National Guard until 1996, when the guard moved to Denver...

Fort Peabody

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 15:03, last changed on 01/29/2021 - 17:29
Built on Imogene Pass during the Western Federation of Miners strike in Telluride in 1903–4, Fort Peabody was a Colorado National Guard post intended to prevent deported union members and activists from returning to Telluride via the pass. Named after Governor James Peabody , who deployed the...

Fort Uncompahgre

Added by yongli on 08/15/2016 - 16:13, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Fort Uncompahgre was constructed in 1828 by Antoine Robidoux , a trader based out of Mexican Santa Fé. The trading post was situated about two miles down from the confluence of the Gunnison and Uncompahgre Rivers near the present-day community of Delta in western Colorado. The precise location of...

Fort Vasquez

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 16:08, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 22:25
Louis Vasquez and Andrew Sublette operated the fur- trading post Fort Vasquez from 1835 to 1842. After ruthless competition and changing trade patterns caused the pair to leave the fort, it served as a landmark along the South Platte River Trail before gradually disappearing back into the plains ...

Four Mile House

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 15:41, last changed on 08/14/2022 - 20:06
Named for its location four miles from the intersection of Broadway and Colfax Avenue in Denver , Four Mile House was built in 1859 and served in the 1860s as the last stage stop before the city along the Smoky Hill Trail . When railroads replaced stagecoaches in the 1870s, the property became a...

Francisco Plaza

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 13:51, last changed on 11/20/2019 - 10:17
The Fort Garland merchant John M. Francisco and his trading partner, Henry Daigre, built Francisco Plaza near the Cucharas River, at the site of present-day La Veta , in 1862. The first dwelling in the Cucharas Valley , the plaza served as a defensive fort as well as a trading post, farm, and ranch...

Franktown Cave

Added by yongli on 06/22/2016 - 13:17, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 22:25
Located two and a half miles southwest of Franktown, Franktown Cave is a prehistoric archaeological site in a large rockshelter that contained artifacts from prehistoric occupations over 8,000 years. Some of the findings include rare perishable artifacts manufactured from hide, wood and fiber, and...

Garden Park School

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:12, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
The Garden Park School is a one-story brick schoolhouse completed in 1895 to replace an earlier school that was destroyed by fire. Standing at a prominent bend in Garden Park Road about nine miles north of Cañon City , the school served local students until 1961 and served as a community center for...

Genesee Park

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:49, last changed on 11/26/2022 - 11:42
Genesee Park is a Denver Mountain Park that stretches from Clear Creek Canyon to Genesee Mountain in the Rocky Mountain foothills about five miles southwest of Golden . In addition to the 8,424-foot summit of Genesee Mountain, attractions at the 2,413-acre park include Beaver Brook Trail and the...

Georgetown–Silver Plume Historic District

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 16:27, last changed on 11/26/2022 - 11:42
Located in the upper Clear Creek valley about forty-five miles west of Denver , the Georgetown–Silver Plume Historic District is one of the best preserved historic mining districts in Colorado. In the late nineteenth century, Georgetown thrived as the area’s commercial and professional center,...

German Congregational Zion Church (Zion United Church of Christ)

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 14:25, last changed on 11/18/2019 - 12:32
The German Congregational Zion Church of Sterling (428 Chestnut St, Sterling, CO 80751) was established by Germans from Russia in 1911, and the church building itself was constructed in 1926–27. The oldest church in Sterling founded by the German Russian community, it helped immigrants hold on to...

Given Institute

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:30, last changed on 12/09/2017 - 01:07
The Given Institute was an International Style conference and laboratory building designed by Harry Weese and built in 1972 at 100 East Francis Street in Aspen . Built on land that formerly belonged to Elizabeth Paepcke near Hallam Lake, the building was owned by the University of Colorado and used...

Glen Eyrie

Added by yongli on 03/15/2016 - 16:33, last changed on 10/24/2019 - 13:04
Originally built in the early 1870s at the mouth of Queens Canyon in Colorado Springs , Glen Eyrie was home to city founder William Jackson Palmer . In the early twentieth century Palmer expanded the house into an elaborate stone castle, but he died soon after its completion. The property passed...

Glenwood Springs Hydroelectric Plant (Glenwood Center for the Arts)

Added by yongli on 09/11/2015 - 16:01, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 09:07
Built in 1888, the Glenwood Springs Hydroelectric Plant building is one of the earliest hydroelectric plants still standing in Colorado. The plant made Glenwood Springs one of the first cities in the United States to be lit by hydroelectric power, and the plant continued to supply some of the city’...

Gold Hill

Added by yongli on 05/03/2017 - 16:54, last changed on 11/26/2022 - 21:39
Gold Hill was established in 1859 as the first permanent mining camp in the Colorado mountains. Located at an elevation of about 8,300 feet in Boulder County , the town experienced several booms and busts before settling into a small-scale tourist economy in the twentieth century. Today Gold Hill—...

Gordon Creek Burial Site

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 13:08, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 22:22
Discovered in 1963, the Gordon Creek Burial Site is a Paleo-Indian burial in the Roosevelt National Forest in north-central Colorado. The site, which dates to about 7700 BCE, contained the skeleton of a young woman and several artifacts apparently buried with her. Recently the site has been...

Governor’s Residence at Boettcher Mansion

Added by yongli on 08/29/2016 - 14:44, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Located at 400 Eighth Avenue in Denver , the Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion was originally built in 1908 for the Cheesman family. In 1924 Gladys Cheesman Evans sold the Colonial Revival residence to Claude K. Boettcher , who lived there with his wife for more than three decades...

Granada War Relocation Center (Amache)

Added by yongli on 01/30/2017 - 10:01, last changed on 12/28/2018 - 16:20
The federal government built the Granada War Relocation Center, also known as Camp Amache, after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to imprison Japanese Americans during World War II. Fearing that Japanese Americans might sympathize with Japan and work against the United States during the war, the federal...

Grand Junction Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:43, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Grand Junction Depot is a two-story Italian Renaissance railroad station built in 1906 to accommodate the city’s growing rail traffic. A downtown landmark, the building serves as a reminder of the important role that railroads—especially the Denver & Rio Grande (later the Denver & Rio...

Grant-Humphreys Mansion

Added by yongli on 10/11/2021 - 17:04, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 18:53
Exuding ornamentation and ostentation, Grant-Humphreys Mansion (770 Pennsylvania Street) is Denver 's best-known Beaux-Arts neoclassical residence, combining Colonial Revival and Italian Renaissance elements. Prominently sited on the southwest shoulder of Capitol Hill , it overlooks Governor’s Park...

Grays Peak National Recreation Trail

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 10:35, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 14:45
The Grays Peak National Recreation Trail starts in Stevens Gulch, just south of the Bakerville exit off Interstate 70 in Clear Creek County , and climbs roughly 3,000 feet in 3.5 miles to reach the summit of Grays Peak (14,278 feet) on the Continental Divide . First built by miner Richard Irwin in...

Great House

Added by yongli on 06/23/2016 - 11:22, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 19:40
“Great House” refers to a class of ancient Ancestral Puebloan structures from the ninth through thirteenth century. Great Houses were monumental, geometrically formal constructions, with thick stone masonry walls made with careful craftsmanship. While inspired by the regional center in Chaco Canyon...

Greeley Tribune Building

Added by yongli on 09/15/2015 - 12:54, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 01:43
The Beaux-Arts Greeley Tribune Building opened in 1929 to house the operations of the Greeley Tribune , Weld County ’s oldest newspaper. From 1937 until the mid-1950s, the building also contained the offices of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, which administered the Colorado–Big...

Guggenheim Hall

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 15:32, last changed on 11/11/2019 - 12:13
Built in 1910, Guggenheim Hall is located on the northeast side of the Oval on the campus of Colorado State University (CSU) in Fort Collins . As the headquarters of the school’s home economics program in the early twentieth century, the neoclassical building is significant for its role in the...

Hackberry Springs

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 14:26, last changed on 11/04/2019 - 11:49
A perennial spring in a dry section of southeastern Colorado, Hackberry Springs has seen continuous human use for up to 7,000 years. The spring was also the site of the Battle of Bloody Springs, the last documented skirmish between Plains Indians and the US military in southeastern Colorado. For...

Hagerman Mansion

Added by yongli on 05/23/2018 - 16:18, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Railroad magnate James John Hagerman built Hagerman Mansion in Colorado Springs in 1885. The Hagerman Mansion served as luxury housing for a family of Colorado Springs pioneers until 1899. Today the building is comprised of the original 1885 mansion, a pre-1899 addition, and several wings...

Handy Chapel

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 15:50, last changed on 01/11/2018 - 01:07
Built in 1892 in downtown Grand Junction , Handy Chapel (200 White Ave, Grand Junction, CO 81501) is affiliated with the African Methodist Episcopal Church but is legally owned by the black citizens of the city. In more than 120 years of existence, the chapel has served the community primarily as a...

Hanging Flume

Added by yongli on 11/09/2015 - 13:05, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 04:39
The hanging flume is a three-sided, six-foot-wide and four-foot-deep wooden trough that is suspended for ten miles along sandstone walls 150 feet or more above the San Miguel and Dolores Rivers. During late nineteenth-century gold rushes , many Western mining companies built flumes to get water to...

Harms Farm

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:52, last changed on 01/08/2018 - 01:07
Harms Farm is a historic agricultural property about two and a half miles north of Paoli in Phillips County . The 160-acre section around the main farmstead, which lies on the west side of County Road 21 between County Roads 30 and 32, was first claimed by John Nelson in 1894 and acquired by the...

Harris Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 11:00, last changed on 04/16/2020 - 13:20
The Harris Archaeological Site includes an Archaic period rockshelter first occupied at least 3,500 years ago, associated rock art , and a separate historic Ute campsite along a drainage on the eastern edge of the Uncompahgre Plateau . The site is named for Bill Harris, who discovered it in 1984,...

Hartman Gymnasium

Added by yongli on 01/31/2017 - 15:37, last changed on 08/12/2022 - 07:37
The Hartman Gymnasium was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in about 1938–39 and quickly became an important center for athletic events and community gatherings. The school to which the gymnasium was originally attached was demolished in the early 1980s, leaving the two-story...

Hayden Ranch

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:02, last changed on 11/30/2022 - 12:46
Located about ten miles south of Leadville in the Upper Arkansas Valley, Hayden Ranch was one of the most important early agricultural operations in Lake County . Owned by the Hayden family from 1872 to 1933, the ranch raised hay and cattle for sale in Leadville, Denver , and other markets...

Healy House and Dexter Cabin

Added by yongli on 03/13/2020 - 15:13, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
A large white-clapboard residence in Leadville , Healy House was built for the family of mining engineer August Meyer in 1878. The house signaled the arrival of some domestic comforts to the rough-hewn mining camp. After the Meyers moved away in 1881, the house served briefly as a Methodist...

Hildebrand Ranch

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 14:59, last changed on 05/07/2020 - 10:39
Settled by Frank Hildebrand in 1866, Hildebrand Ranch was a large cattle ranch and farm along Deer Creek southwest of Denver . After remaining in the hands of the Hildebrand family for more than a century, the ranch was condemned by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1971 for the construction of...

Hiwan Heritage Park and Museum

Added by yongli on 10/25/2021 - 14:07, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 23:39
Hiwan Heritage Park and Museum in Evergreen comprises a four-acre outdoor space and a twenty-five-room log cabin. Josepha Williams , one of the first female doctors in Colorado, acquired the property in 1893 as a place for friends and family to stay. Guests first stayed in lodging tents and, later...

Holly City Hall

Added by yongli on 01/31/2017 - 15:47, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
Located at the corner of East Cheyenne and South Third Streets, the Holly City Hall was built in 1938 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project designed to consolidate the town of Holly ’s administrative offices and departments. It never accomplished that goal, but the town fire and police...

Holly Gymnasium

Added by yongli on 01/31/2017 - 16:03, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Holly Gymnasium was built in 1936–38 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project. The two-story Modernist building is made of local Niobrara limestone and was the only gymnasium in Holly until a new school complex was constructed in 1965. Since then the gym has continued to be used for...

Holly Santa Fe Depot (Town Hall)

Added by yongli on 09/15/2015 - 13:00, last changed on 10/29/2019 - 10:58
The Holly train depot opened in 1912, at the height of the eastern plains agricultural boom after the early twentieth-century introduction of sugar beets. For decades the depot linked farmers and consumers to the rest of the country by rail, allowing them to sell agricultural produce to distant...

Holy Ghost Catholic Church

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 10:51, last changed on 12/22/2019 - 01:07
Located at 1900 California Street in Denver , Holy Ghost Catholic Church is known for its long tradition of ministering to downtown Denver’s poor and homeless, as well as for its Renaissance-style church building designed in 1923 by Jules Jacques Benois Benedict . For nearly twenty years, however,...

Homestead

Added by yongli on 11/10/2015 - 13:09, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Editor's note: This article was updated by CE staff on 5/19/20 to include impact on indigenous people Homesteading was the means by which large amounts of land in the Midwest and western United States came under private ownership after it was taken from indigenous peoples. Although the...

Hornbek House

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 15:58, last changed on 01/30/2021 - 09:52
Built in 1878, the Hornbek House in Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument is significant for its association with Adeline Hornbek, a single mother who started a ranch in the Florissant area and lived in the house for twenty-seven years. The large one-and-a-half-story house is also an outstanding...

Hose Company No. 1

Added by yongli on 06/21/2018 - 11:45, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 08:45
One of Denver ’s earliest firehouses, the Hose Company No. 1 building was built in the 1880s and has since served as a print shop, welding shop, and storage facility. It will soon reopen as a restaurant for a new hotel. The preservation of Hose Company No. 1 is an example of Colorado’s dedication...

Hotel Boulderado

Added by yongli on 05/22/2018 - 15:33, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 20:42
Hotel Boulderado is located at 2115 Thirteenth Street in Boulder . Since opening its doors in 1909, it has stood as a luxury hotel and community-gathering place as well as a statement of civic pride. The hotel was built by the Boulder Hotel Company, a joint enterprise sponsored by the Boulder...

Hotel Jerome

Added by yongli on 09/15/2015 - 13:08, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:43
Built in 1889 by Jerome B. Wheeler (1841–1918), the Hotel Jerome was Aspen ’s original luxury hotel. After the 1893 silver crash destroyed the town’s economy, the hotel survived as a boardinghouse and slipped into comfortable shabbiness. When Aspen developed into a resort after World War II, the...

Hover Home and Farmstead

Added by yongli on 09/14/2020 - 15:01, last changed on 10/19/2022 - 05:41
The Hover Home and Farmstead is a historic mansion and agricultural property on the west edge of Longmont . Retired pharmacist Charles Hover and his wife, Katherine, bought the farm in 1902 and built the mansion in 1913–14. Over the next several decades, the Hovers ran one of the most successful...

Howelsen Hill

Added by yongli on 11/09/2015 - 15:40, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
Howelsen Hill in Steamboat Springs is the oldest ski area in continuing use in Colorado and one of the few international ski jump competition sites in the United States. Built in 1915 by skiing pioneer Carl Howelsen (1877–1955) and the Steamboat Springs Winter Sports Club for the city’s second...

Hugo Municipal Pool

Added by yongli on 02/01/2017 - 11:03, last changed on 08/26/2017 - 15:28
Located at the corner of Fourth Street and Sixth Avenue in Hugo, the Hugo Municipal Pool was built in 1936–38 as a Works Progress Administration (WPA) project designed to provide employment and improve quality of life during the Great Depression . The pool’s bathhouse is notable for combining a...

Ideal Building

Added by yongli on 10/11/2021 - 17:05, last changed on 10/11/2021 - 17:05
Denver ’s eight-story Ideal Building (821 Seventeenth Street) claims to be the first major building west of the Mississippi River constructed entirely of reinforced concrete. Built in 1907, it originally housed Charles Boettcher ’s Ideal Cement Company before being sold to the Denver National Bank...

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción

Added by yongli on 10/28/2016 - 11:01, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in Chama in the San Luis Valley , Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción (Church of the Immaculate Conception) is a Catholic church built in 1938 under the supervision of Father Onofre Martorell . It continues to serve as an important community center, with Mass celebrated in Spanish during...

Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi

Added by yongli on 11/18/2016 - 17:24, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in San Francisco in the southeastern San Luis Valley , Iglesia de San Francisco de Assisi is a Catholic church featuring Gothic and Mission Revival elements. Constructed in the 1950s using concrete blocks and casement windows, the building shows how the local parish adapted modern building...

Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 11:49, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Located in San Pedro in the San Luis Valley , Iglesia de San Pedro y San Pablo (Church of St. Peter and St. Paul) is a Catholic church built in 1933–34 under the supervision of Father Onofre Martorell . The cruciform-plan Territorial Adobe building continues to serve as an important community...

Independence

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 16:04, last changed on 10/04/2019 - 10:45
Located just west of Independence Pass at an elevation of about 10,900 feet, the town of Independence was established in 1879 and boomed briefly in the early 1880s, reaching an estimated population of 1,500. In the mid-1880s, the town’s harsh climate and the availability of better jobs in Aspen led...

Indian Grove

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 13:54, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 22:39
Indian Grove consists of seventy-two ponderosa pines in Great Sand Dunes National Park that were peeled by Indigenous people in the 1800s to get bark for food, medicine, and other uses. First recorded in the 1970s by archaeologist Marilyn Martorano, Indian Grove is one of the two largest clusters...

Inter-Laken Hotel

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 14:53, last changed on 11/30/2022 - 22:36
Originally established in 1879 as the Lakeside Resort, the Inter-Laken Hotel was developed by James V. Dexter into a high-class, late nineteenth-century resort near Twin Lakes . Popular for about two decades, the hotel declined and eventually closed in the early twentieth century as a series of...

J Bar Double C Ranch

Added by yongli on 11/09/2015 - 16:23, last changed on 04/03/2020 - 12:37
The Denver Jewish Community Center (JCC) established J Bar Double C Ranch in 1952. The next summer the ranch, also known as JCC Ranch, began to host JCC Ranch Camp, Colorado’s second Jewish summer camp and the state’s first summer camp with a kosher kitchen. Over its more than sixty years in...

J. S. Brown Mercantile Building (Wynkoop Brewing Company)

Added by yongli on 02/14/2022 - 14:42, last changed on 02/14/2022 - 14:42
This five-story. red-brick building in Denver went up in 1899 for John Sidney Brown’s wholesale grocery business. Strategically located at 1634 Eighteenth Street—across Wynkoop Street from Union Station —it was next to the rail lines it depended on for customers and for shipping goods to the Rocky...

Jackson County Courthouse

Added by yongli on 11/09/2015 - 15:55, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Built in 1913, the three-story Jackson County Courthouse in Walden is the most important building in the county. Designed by the prominent early twentieth-century Denver architect William N. Bowman (1868–1944), the building continues to house most county functions today. Incorporated in...

Jamaica Primary School

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 15:43, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Jamaica Primary School is a midcentury elementary school designed by Atchison & Kloverstrom that opened in Aurora ’s Havana Park neighborhood in 1958. Part of a massive school-building effort by Aurora Public Schools to keep up with the city’s booming postwar population, Jamaica was intended to...

Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:09, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:48
Located in a shallow draw near the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, the Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site was discovered in 1972 by the rancher Robert B. Jones Jr. and excavated over the next three years by Dennis Stanford of the Smithsonian Institution. Containing the bones of more than 300 bison ,...

Julesburg Public Library

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 09:55, last changed on 10/23/2019 - 11:46
Located at the corner of East Fourth and Cedar Streets, the Julesburg Public Library was built in 1937, after the Julesburg Woman’s Club led a long-term effort to get a permanent library building for the community. Designed by Stanley Morse in the Art Moderne style, the library includes several...

Julesburg Union Pacific Depot

Added by yongli on 11/09/2015 - 16:34, last changed on 10/19/2022 - 07:40
Completed in 1930, the Union Pacific Railroad depot in Julesburg is a reminder of the town’s long-standing ties to the railroad. In the 1860s Julesburg served briefly as the end-of-track town when the Union Pacific was building its transcontinental line west, and the town even moved twice to...

Jurgens Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:47, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:49
The Jurgens Archaeological Site is a Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE) bison processing site that dates to about 7120 BCE and includes the remains of at least sixty-eight bison spread across three separate camps. Located about nine miles east of Greeley near the South Platte River , the site...

Justina Ford House

Added by yongli on 08/29/2016 - 15:30, last changed on 11/18/2019 - 13:22
Built in 1890 at 2335 Arapahoe Street in Denver , the Justina Ford House served for forty years as the home and office of Colorado’s first black woman physician. In 1984 the house was moved to save it from demolition, and after renovations it opened at 3091 California Street as the new home of the...

Kaplan-Hoover Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:42, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:45
The Kaplan-Hoover Bison Kill Site west of Windsor preserves one of the largest single-event Archaic arroyo kills ever found. Discovered in 1997 during construction of a housing development, the site was excavated by a Colorado State University (CSU) team led by Lawrence C. Todd. Because of the site...

Ken-Caryl South Valley Archaeological District

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 15:59, last changed on 08/26/2022 - 20:57
Located just north of Deer Creek in the valley between the hogback ridge and the foothills west of Denver, the Ken-Caryl South Valley Archaeological District contains rock shelters that were used by prehistoric peoples from at least the Late Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE) through the Early...

Kennicott Cabin

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 15:45, last changed on 08/18/2018 - 01:07
Located about three miles north of Westcliffe in the Wet Mountain Valley , the Kennicott Cabin is a rare example of a two-story log cabin and is significant for its association with the early settlement of the area. Frank Kennicott built the cabin on his original homestead in 1869–70, and his...

Kewclaw Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 16:22, last changed on 10/04/2019 - 11:02
Located in Battlement Mesa , the Kewclaw Archaeological Site contains the best-preserved Archaic period (5500 BCE–150 CE) structure in Colorado. Dating to at least 1095 BCE, the Kewclaw pithouse was built in a resource-rich area that would have allowed a nuclear family to use it as a base for...

Key Savings and Loan Association Building

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:53, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 02:50
The Key Savings and Loan Association Building at the southwest corner of South Broadway and West Hampden Avenue in Englewood was designed by modernist architect Charles Deaton and constructed in 1966–67. A striking concrete ovoid shell with a glass curtain wall, the building is an excellent example...

Kuner-Empson Cannery

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:17, last changed on 06/18/2022 - 07:54
The Kuner-Empson Cannery at Third and Martin Streets in Longmont canned vegetables from farms on the northern Front Range from 1892 to 1970. Originally built by industrialist John H. Empson in 1889, the cannery was one of the first major industrial sites in Longmont and was for a time the city’s...

La Casa Ruibalid

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 09:58, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
Built sometime in the 1880s or 1890s, La Casa Ruibalid is a Territorial adobe house on the Rio Blanco about ten miles south of Pagosa Springs . Believed to be the second house built in the Rio Blanco area, it was occupied throughout the first half of the twentieth century by Casimiro Ruibalid and...

La Junta City Park

Added by yongli on 11/10/2015 - 11:04, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
La Junta City Park is a prime example of a New Deal project on Colorado’s eastern plains. As a result of work carried out between 1933 and 1941, a poorly drained park became the city’s primary outdoor recreation space, complete with stone walls, benches, and buildings; a new lake; picnic shelters;...

Lake Agnes Cabin

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:10, last changed on 01/29/2021 - 15:54
Lake Agnes Cabin is a one-room log cabin about a half-mile north of Lake Agnes in the Never Summer Mountains . Built in 1925, the cabin was intended to provide accommodations for a boys’ summer camp and was later used by forest rangers in the area. Today it is in State Forest State Park and is...

Lake City

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 11:29, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
At an elevation of 8,661 feet in the heart of the San Juan Mountains , the historic mining town of Lake City is the only incorporated town in Hinsdale County . Named for nearby Lake San Cristobal , the town was founded in 1874 in a broad valley along the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River . Between...

Lamar Post Office

Added by yongli on 02/01/2017 - 11:17, last changed on 10/29/2019 - 11:21
The Lamar Post Office was built in 1936 as a Public Works Administration (PWA) project. Designed by Pueblo architect Walter DeMordaunt , the building is the only Spanish Colonial Revival post office built as part of the New Deal in Colorado. It is still in use and was listed on the National...

Lamb Spring Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 16:26, last changed on 11/22/2022 - 16:38
Located in Douglas County southeast of Chatfield State Park, the Lamb Spring Archaeological Site is the only major site with Paleo-Indian (before 6000 BCE) deposits in the metropolitan Denver area. First excavated in 1961–62, the site contains bison and mammoth bones from the Paleo-Indian period,...

Lands End Observatory

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 14:36, last changed on 05/29/2020 - 01:07
Perched on the edge of Grand Mesa in western Colorado’s Mesa County , the Lands End Observatory was built in 1936–37 and gives visitors a spectacular view of the Gunnison and Grand River Valleys, the Uncompahgre Plateau, the San Juan Mountains , and the La Sal Mountains in Utah. Construction for...

Lariat Trail Scenic Mountain Drive

Added by yongli on 12/19/2016 - 16:26, last changed on 12/02/2019 - 01:07
Planned and built by William “Cement Bill” Williams from about 1910 to 1914, the Lariat Trail Scenic Mountain Drive winds roughly five miles and 1,500 feet from Golden to the top of Lookout Mountain . One of the earliest scenic mountain drives in Colorado, the road provided access to the new Denver...

Larimer Square

Added by yongli on 08/29/2016 - 15:52, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 02:40
Located in the heart of downtown Denver , Larimer Square refers to the 1400 block of Larimer Street, which was named for the city’s founder and served as its main street for more than three decades. By the 1890s, Sixteenth Street became the city’s top commercial address and Larimer Street began a...

Leadville

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 16:54, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 09:44
At an elevation of 10,152 feet in the central Rocky Mountains , Leadville is the Lake County seat and the highest incorporated city in the United States. Gold first brought prospectors to the area in the early 1860s, but Leadville itself was not established until a silver boom in the late 1870s...

Leadville Ice Palace

Added by yongli on 03/13/2020 - 15:57, last changed on 12/13/2022 - 12:40
The Leadville Ice Palace was an enormous, ice-walled building with an exterior in the style of a Norman castle and an interior comprising a large skating rink and two ballrooms. Proposed and constructed in late 1895, the Ice Palace hosted a Crystal Carnival from January 1 to March 28, 1896, before...

Leadville National Fish Hatchery

Added by yongli on 09/15/2015 - 13:20, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
The Leadville National Fish Hatchery was established in 1889 at the base of Mt. Massive and has raised fish to stock the country’s inland waterways for more than 125 years. After successfully eliminating a whirling disease outbreak in the early 2000s, the hatchery began to raise the greenback...

Leslie J. Savage Library

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:04, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 14:43
The Leslie J. Savage Library at Western State Colorado University in Gunnison is a Spanish Colonial Revival–style building designed by Temple Hoyne Buell and built in 1938–39. Funded in part by the Public Works Administration (PWA), the library included a reading room, a lounge, lecture rooms,...

Limon Railroad Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:52, last changed on 10/19/2022 - 03:38
The Limon Railroad Depot was built in 1910 on a triangular piece of land bounded by the intersection of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRI&P) and Union Pacific Railroad (UP) lines. The interchange made Limon , in Lincoln County , an important railroad hub, and the town’s depot...

Lincoln Hills

Added by yongli on 08/29/2016 - 16:51, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 14:44
Located along South Boulder Creek about ten miles due west of Eldorado Springs and an hour’s drive from downtown Denver , Lincoln Hills was established in the 1920s as one of a small handful of black resorts in the United States and the only one west of the Mississippi River. Easily accessible by...

Lincoln Home

Added by yongli on 12/20/2016 - 09:21, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 18:52
The Lincoln Home in Pueblo was started by the city’s Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs and became the only known Black orphanage in Colorado. Established in 1906, the home moved in 1914 to two connected brick houses on North Grand Avenue, where it remained until the city’s segregated orphanage...

Lincoln School

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:06, last changed on 08/26/2017 - 15:55
Lincoln School was an important early school complex on the 300 block between West Second and West Third Streets in La Junta . Built in three phases, the complex started in 1883 with a stone building, was enlarged in 1903–4 with a red brick addition, and received a Spanish Colonial annex in 1937...

Lindenmeier Folsom Site

Added by yongli on 02/23/2016 - 11:02, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:59
Lindenmeier is a large Native American archaeological site dating to the end of the Pleistocene epoch, or Ice Age, in northern Larimer County . The site contains stone tools and animal bones interpreted by archaeologists as the fragmentary remains of an ancient campsite and associated bison kill,...

LoDaisKa Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 13:52, last changed on 10/14/2019 - 11:01
First excavated in 1956–57, the LoDaisKa Archaeological Site south of Morrison is a rockshelter that contains evidence of about 7,500 years of human occupation, from the Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE) to the Early Ceramic (150–1150 CE). The site is especially significant for three main...

Lodore School

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 10:04, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 22:42
Built in 1911, the Lodore School is located off Colorado State Highway 318 in what is now Browns Park National Wildlife Refuge in Moffat County . The building has served as a rural community center throughout its existence and also functioned as a schoolhouse for much of the early twentieth century...

Long House

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 14:42, last changed on 09/09/2020 - 15:45
Long House is the second-largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park . Built by Ancestral Puebloans in the 1200s, the 150-room dwelling was rediscovered by the Wetherill brothers and Charles Mason in early 1890. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was excavated and eventually opened to...

Longmont Carnegie Library

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:22, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 18:46
Built in 1913, the Carnegie Library at Fourth and Kimbark Streets in Longmont served as the city’s public library until 1972, when it was remodeled to house city offices. The Longmont Carnegie Library was one of thousands of similar libraries donated to communities across the United States by steel...

Longmont College / The Landmark

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:28, last changed on 09/30/2022 - 01:43
Built in 1886, Longmont College, also known as The Landmark, was the first institute of higher education in Longmont and the St. Vrain Valley. The Presbyterian Synod of Colorado founded the college in 1885 with plans to build a massive Italianate-style campus at the east end of Sixth Avenue, but...

Longmont Historic Districts

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 11:32, last changed on 04/08/2020 - 11:13
The East and West Side Historic Districts in Longmont are located east and west of Main Street and south of Longs Peak Avenue. They contain many of the city’s earliest homes. The East Side Historic District includes 67 historic houses and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in...

Lorraine Lodge/Boettcher Mansion

Added by yongli on 11/05/2015 - 16:55, last changed on 10/07/2019 - 11:55
Charles Boettcher (1852–1948), one of Colorado’s most important early businessmen and philanthropists, built Lorraine Lodge (now known as Boettcher Mansion) in 1917 as a summer retreat at the top of Lookout Mountain , west of Golden . It stands as a particularly elaborate example of the rustic...

Los Piños Indian Agency

Added by yongli on 04/29/2016 - 15:32, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 18:53
After the Treaty of 1868 , the Los Piños Indian Agency became the center of governmental authority for the Uncompahgre Utes on the Ute Indian Reservation in western Colorado. While largely forgotten after its abandonment in 1881, the site of the second iteration of the agency is now under...

Lost Trail Ranch

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:13, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 05:48
Lost Trail Ranch was established in 1877 as a way station and resupply spot along Stony Pass Road from the San Luis Valley to the mining camps of the San Juan Mountains . Located at an elevation of 9,800 feet along the Rio Grande , the way station served travelers until the early 1880s, when...

Louviers

Added by yongli on 11/10/2015 - 11:55, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:41
Originally established as a Du Pont company town in 1906–8, Louviers Village south of Denver is distinctive in Colorado because it was never associated with either agriculture or mining. Planned by Du Pont as a model community to attract long-term employees for the company’s nearby the Louviers...

Loveland C&S Rail Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:01, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Whether it was stagecoaches on the Overland Trail , steam locomotives bringing crops to market, or automobiles carrying tourists to nearby Rocky Mountain National Park , the city of Loveland has long served as a transportation hub along Colorado’s Front Range . The city’s Colorado & Southern...

Lowry Site

Added by yongli on 11/20/2015 - 14:09, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 19:52
Named for early homesteader George Lowry, the Lowry ruin near Cortez ( Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, County Rd 7.25, Pleasant View, CO 81331) is a pueblo with thirty-seven rooms, eight kivas , and one Great Kiva. Built between about 1090 and 1120 CE, the Ancestral Pueblo site dates to...

Lyons Sandstone

Added by yongli on 01/15/2020 - 15:23, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Named for the Boulder County town whose historic quarries made it famous, the Lyons Sandstone formation is a Permian age rock layer in the foothills of the Front Range from the Wyoming border to south of Colorado Springs . It is the primary formation in the scenic red rock outcrops at Garden of the...

Manitou Experimental Forest Station

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 13:36, last changed on 01/30/2021 - 09:32
Located about seven miles north of Woodland Park , the Manitou Experimental Forest Station was established in 1936 for the US Forest Service to study resource management in ponderosa pine lands. Along with the Fraser Experimental Forest , it is one of two experimental forests in Colorado. The...

Manitou Springs Spa Building

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 16:12, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 12:38
The Manitou Springs Spa Building stands on top of Soda (or Manitou) Spring on the north bank of Fountain Creek in downtown Manitou Springs . The three-story Spanish Colonial Revival building was built in 1920 to help revive Manitou’s sagging health tourism industry by offering modern mineral water...

Mantle's Cave

Added by yongli on 11/16/2015 - 11:17, last changed on 01/30/2021 - 09:57
Mantle’s Cave is the most important Fremont period archaeological site excavated in northwestern Colorado. Artifacts recovered from the cave were instrumental in defining the Fremont culture. Because the cave is dry, artifacts that are not usually seen at archaeological sites were preserved and...

Marble Jailhouse

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 11:06, last changed on 10/14/2019 - 12:19
The Marble Jailhouse was built on East State Street in 1901, as local officials tried to impose order on the growing town and its increasingly diverse working class. The one-room jailhouse, which contains two steel-framed jail cells, was most active after Marble passed a local prohibition law in...

Marble Mill Site

Added by yongli on 11/20/2015 - 15:34, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 05:48
The deposits in the Crystal River valley are the only major source of marble in Colorado. Quarries in the area were developed most extensively by Channing Meek’s Colorado Yule Marble Company, which constructed a vast marble mill that operated from 1907 to 1941. The quarries have supplied marble for...

Matchless Mine

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 10:58, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
One of the most famous mines in Colorado, the Matchless Mine in the Leadville Mining District produced millions of dollars’ worth of silver for its owner, Horace Tabor , in the early 1880s. The mine is perhaps best known, however, as the home of Horace Tabor’s second wife, Elizabeth “Baby Doe”...

Mesa Schoolhouse

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 13:36, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
The bright-red Mesa Schoolhouse, located off US 40 about two miles south of Steamboat Springs , is among the oldest examples of a one-story wood-frame school building still standing in Colorado. Built in 1916 by Arthur Gumprecht, the schoolhouse served Routt County School District #13 until 1959,...

Mesa Verde National Park

Added by yongli on 08/21/2015 - 11:50, last changed on 01/22/2022 - 11:53
Mesa Verde National Park was established on June 29, 1906. It is the largest of the National Park Service parcels protecting cultural resources in Colorado, with nearly 5,000 documented sites, including about 600 cliff dwellings . A majority of the sites are associated with Ancestral Pueblo...

Mesa Verde National Park Administrative District

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 15:55, last changed on 10/24/2019 - 11:59
The Mesa Verde National Park Administrative District consists of six Pueblo Revival structures originally built by park superintendent Jesse Nusbaum along the rim of Spruce Tree Canyon in the 1920s. The buildings were the first in the National Park Service to highlight a park’s cultural theme, and...

Midland Roundhouse

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 15:59, last changed on 10/15/2019 - 09:26
Located at the corner of South Twenty-First Street and US Highway 24 on the west side of Colorado Springs , the Midland Roundhouse is a relatively rare example of a surviving nineteenth-century railroad roundhouse that has been adapted to a new use. Built in about 1889 for the Colorado Midland...

Miller House

Added by yongli on 10/24/2016 - 16:38, last changed on 10/19/2022 - 03:38
Located at 409 East Cleveland Street in Lafayette , the Miller House was the longtime home of town founder Mary Miller . In 1983 it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Today the one-story house remains a private, single-family residence. Mary Miller named Lafayette...

Milne Farm

Added by yongli on 11/06/2015 - 12:53, last changed on 05/04/2020 - 08:56
First established in the 1880s as a homestead associated with the Greeley agricultural colony, Milne Farm sits just west of Lucerne in Weld County . The Milne family has owned the farm continuously for more than 125 years and has long been involved in irrigation , civic improvement, and business in...

Minnequa Steelworks Office

Added by Nick Johnson on 04/20/2016 - 10:48, last changed on 04/20/2021 - 12:30
Built by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) in 1901–2, the Minnequa Steelworks office building and medical dispensary in Pueblo are among the best examples of Mission-style architecture in Colorado. The dispensary helped provide healthcare to CF&I’s thousands of workers, and the...

Montezuma Schoolhouse

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:19, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 02:40
The Montezuma Schoolhouse was built in 1884 on the east side of the mining town of Montezuma . The one-room schoolhouse replaced an earlier school building and was intended to accommodate the area’s growing population during that decade’s silver boom. The school remained in operation until 1958,...

Montoya Ranch

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 10:18, last changed on 01/09/2018 - 01:07
Located near the Huerfano River about twenty miles northwest of Walsenburg , Montoya Ranch is a large adobe building originally built around 1869 by Hispano settlers in the area. It was later occupied by the Montoya family, who operated a sheep ranch, and then by the Lebanese Faris family, who used...

Monument Valley Park

Added by yongli on 02/01/2017 - 13:04, last changed on 10/24/2019 - 13:07
Monument Valley Park is a roughly two-mile linear park along Monument Creek in the heart of Colorado Springs . Developed and donated to the city by William Jackson Palmer , the 165-acre park opened in 1907 and has been one of the city’s most popular recreation sites for more than a century. The...

Morefield Mound

Added by yongli on 02/03/2017 - 13:18, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 09:37
Morefield Mound sits in the middle of the wide valley at the bottom of Morefield Canyon in Mesa Verde National Park . It served as a water supply for ancient Native Americans a thousand years ago, making it one of the earliest known domestic water-supply works in the United States. The reservoir...

Morgan County Courthouse and Jail

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 13:57, last changed on 11/19/2019 - 11:00
Morgan County’s 1921 jail and 1936 courthouse in Fort Morgan replaced the county’s original facilities after the county had outgrown them. The courthouse was funded by the Public Works Administration (PWA) and designed by the modernist Colorado architect Eugene Groves . In 1988 both facilities were...

Morrison

Added by yongli on 02/01/2017 - 13:48, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 06:40
Morrison is a small tourist-oriented town of restaurants and antique shops located along Bear Creek in the valley south of Red Rocks , about fifteen miles southwest of Denver . Established in 1872, the town relied on George Morrison’s quarrying industry in its early years but gradually shifted to a...

Mount Vernon

Added by yongli on 02/01/2017 - 14:00, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 05:48
The town of Mount Vernon was established in 1859 at the base of Mount Vernon Canyon, west of Denver . The town is best known as the home of Robert W. Steele , who made it the de facto capital of the unofficial Territory of Jefferson while he was governor in 1859–61. Today two early stone houses...

Mountaineer Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/25/2016 - 13:31, last changed on 10/19/2022 - 04:40
Discovered in 1994, the Mountaineer Archaeological Site consists of more than sixty clusters of prehistoric artifacts on top of Tenderfoot Mountain near Gunnison . The most significant discovery at the site has been structures dating to the Paleo-Indian period (9500–5800 BCE) and associated with...

Ninth Street

Added by yongli on 10/11/2021 - 17:12, last changed on 09/03/2022 - 08:36
Ninth Street Historic Park is the heart of the Auraria neighborhood, Denver ’s oldest, founded in October 1858, a month before Denver City. In the late 1960s, the Denver Urban Renewal Authority (DURA) planned to clear 169 acres of old Auraria bordering Cherry Creek to build the Auraria Higher...

Notch Mountain Shelter

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:23, last changed on 11/13/2019 - 09:56
The Notch Mountain Shelter was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933 as a shelter for pilgrims coming to see nearby Mount of the Holy Cross . Located on the south shoulder of Notch Mountain at an elevation of about 13,100 feet, the rustic stone shelter is near the spot where in...

Oil Spring

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 16:07, last changed on 11/01/2022 - 12:43
Located along Fourmile Creek (also known as Oil Creek) about six miles north of Cañon City , Oil Spring is a shallow oil seep that was the site of the first commercial oil production in Colorado. Primarily active from 1860 to 1881, the seep produced at most one to three barrels of oil per day. In...

Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:37, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:46
Dating to roughly 8200 BCE, the Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site in Cheyenne County preserves evidence of a Paleo-Indian kill of more than 190 bison . The site was named for the amateur archaeologists Jerry Chubbuck and Sigurd Olsen, who discovered and partially excavated the site in 1957–58 before...

Oltjenbruns Farm

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:40, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
Oltjenbruns Farm is a historic agricultural property about two and a half miles southwest of Amherst in Phillips County . The 320 acres around the main farmstead, which lies on the west side of County Road 49 just north of Highway 23, was first claimed by the Berkes and Hanway families in the 1890s...

Ouray (town)

Added by yongli on 08/09/2022 - 13:22, last changed on 08/27/2022 - 08:19
The town of Ouray was founded in 1875 along the Uncompahgre River near where it runs north out of the San Juan Mountains . Two years after the Nuche ( Ute ) people were dispossessed by the Brunot Agreement in 1873, prospectors found silver and later gold in the area and platted Ouray in a natural...

Overland Trail

Added by yongli on 03/11/2016 - 16:42, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 12:43
The Overland Trail, also known as the "Central Overland Emigrant Route," was an important nineteenth-century corridor for explorers, colonists, miners, and traders that ran from Atchison, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. It followed preexisting Indigenous and early explorer trails throughout most...

Oxford Hotel

Added by yongli on 01/21/2021 - 16:11, last changed on 01/21/2021 - 16:11
The Oxford Hotel (1600 Seventeenth Street) opened in 1891 and is now Denver ’s oldest surviving hotel. Developed by brewer Adolph Zang and designed by architect Frank Edbrooke , the hotel originally provided a luxurious stay for travelers passing through nearby Union Station . After being restored...

Pagosa Springs

Added by yongli on 11/20/2015 - 16:09, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 05:48
Home to the deepest hot spring aquifer in the world, Pagosa Springs was a popular destination for local Native Americans before it developed into a white settlement in the 1870s. The area supported a thriving lumber industry in the early twentieth century. Now it survives on tourism to the hot...

Palmer Lake Star

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 15:25, last changed on 11/23/2022 - 21:39
The Palmer Lake Star at 500 Highland Road lies on a steep 58 percent slope of Sundance Mountain west of the Town of Palmer Lake . Built in 1935 to spur civic pride during the depths of the Great Depression , the 457-foot-wide star represents the star of Bethlehem and is lit throughout each December...

Paramount Theater

Added by yongli on 06/29/2021 - 16:41, last changed on 06/30/2021 - 11:17
The Paramount Theater (1621 Glenarm Place, Denver ) is the best-known Art Deco design of architect Temple Hoyne Buell . Buell created this 1930 palace as the most ornate of all Colorado movie theaters and a gem in the coast-to-coast chain of exuberant movie houses planted by Paramount Publix. Like...

Park Hill

Added by yongli on 05/18/2022 - 13:22, last changed on 10/25/2022 - 22:51
Named for its site on a hill overlooking City Park , the Park Hill neighborhood in northeast Denver is bounded by Colorado Boulevard, East Colfax Avenue, Quebec Street, and East Fifty-Second Avenue. The area was first platted in 1887. As Park Hill matured, its tree-lined streets, parkways, and...

Peck House

Added by yongli on 11/20/2015 - 16:20, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 03:39
Built by James Peck in 1863, the Peck House in Empire was for many years the oldest hotel still operating in Colorado. An important Empire institution, the house began hosting stagecoach travelers and miners in the 1860s and became a formal hotel in 1872. The hotel closed in the spring of 2014...

Pedro-Botz House

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 10:47, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
Built in 1904, the Pedro-Botz House is a log dwelling in the working-class community of Smeltertown, which developed near the Ohio and Colorado Smelter northwest of Salida . Occupied initially by the Hungarian Pedro family and later by the Yugoslavian Botz family, the house serves as a reminder of...

Peoples Presbyterian Church

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:02, last changed on 11/09/2022 - 14:41
Peoples Presbyterian Church was founded in June 1906 and is Denver ’s oldest continuously active black Presbyterian congregation. In 1908 the congregation acquired its first permanent home at the former First Cumberland Presbyterian building a few blocks south of Five Points , which was then...

Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp

Added by yongli on 08/25/2016 - 11:01, last changed on 12/14/2020 - 01:07
Established by Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield in 1913, the Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts School and Camp near Steamboat Springs is the oldest continuously operated performing arts camp in the United States. In the early twentieth century, the camp served as an important site for the...

Petticrew Stage Stop

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 14:43, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Surrounded by prairie grass and juniper, the Petticrew Stage Stop stands approximately twenty-five miles south of Lamar in Prowers County . Built in the early 1890s by John L. Petticrew, the building served as a stop between Lamar and Springfield , providing travelers with a place to eat and...

Pike’s Stockade

Added by yongli on 03/07/2016 - 16:17, last changed on 10/18/2022 - 06:48
The Pike Stockade is a reconstruction of a small fortress built by the soldiers of the 1806–7 Zebulon Pike expedition. It is located on the Rio Conejos , a tributary of the Rio Grande , in the San Luis Valley , seventeen miles southeast of Alamosa . Administered by History Colorado , the stockade...

Pine Hall

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:09, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 13:54
Pine Hall is the only historic false-front wood building remaining in Granite , a small town along the Arkansas River about halfway between Buena Vista and Leadville . Built in 1896 as a community center, the building later housed a variety of commercial operations before being converted for...

Pleasant Park School

Added by yongli on 05/24/2018 - 13:26, last changed on 10/26/2022 - 07:40
The Pleasant Park School is located at 22551 Pleasant Park Road, about three and a half miles southeast of Aspen Park in rural Jefferson County . Built by local families in 1894, the one-room school served Pleasant Park students until school consolidation in the early 1950s. In 1956 it was acquired...

Prehistoric Stone Quarrying in Colorado

Added by yongli on 01/14/2020 - 14:37, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 12:43
From exquisitely flaked Folsom spear points to the spectacular cliff dwellings of Mesa Verde National Park , among the most visible vestiges of Colorado’s Native American history are those crafted from naturally available rock. Archaeologists and others have documented nearly 1,000 places across...

Prowers County Welfare Housing

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:26
The five-building Prowers County Welfare Housing complex on the north side of Lamar was built in 1938–41 as a series of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. The one-story sandstone buildings were the only New Deal public housing complex constructed in eastern Colorado. In 2009 the complex...

Raton Pass

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 16:20, last changed on 11/12/2022 - 10:05
At an elevation of 7,798 feet in the Raton Range on the border between Colorado and New Mexico, Raton Pass has served as an important transportation corridor since at least the start of the Santa Fé Trail in 1821. Despite being on the less popular Mountain Branch of the Santa Fé Trail, the pass has...

Richthofen Castle

Added by yongli on 07/08/2020 - 16:10, last changed on 07/08/2020 - 16:10
Richthofen Castle (7020 E. Twelfth Avenue) was completed in 1886 for Baron Walter von Richthofen and is now one of Denver ’s oldest and most celebrated buildings. Thought to be the design of Denver architect Alexander Cazin, it is a Romanesque Revival residence modeled after Castle Karpnicki near...

Rim Rock Drive

Added by yongli on 12/02/2015 - 10:59, last changed on 10/14/2019 - 11:57
Built primarily by New Deal work programs in the 1930s, Rim Rock Drive is a twenty-three-mile scenic road through Colorado National Monument . Connecting Fruita and Grand Junction , the road increased tourism to the monument by allowing travelers to drive through and continue on their journey. The...

Rio Grande Hotel

Added by yongli on 12/02/2015 - 13:42, last changed on 07/24/2018 - 01:07
The Rio Grande Hotel was built in the spring of 1892, when Creede faced a severe housing shortage as thousands of prospectors arrived into town on the recently completed railroad. The hotel withstood the town’s major 1892 fire and is a rare example of an early mining-camp boarding house. After...

Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:31, last changed on 11/20/2022 - 21:49
The Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump in northern Larimer County is a Protohistoric period (1540–1860 CE) bison kill and butchering site that dates to about 1663–84 and represents one of the southernmost bison jump sites on the Great Plains . Discovered in 1957, the site was excavated in the late 1960s by...

Rock Ledge Ranch (Buena Vista)

Added by yongli on 10/31/2016 - 10:59, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 09:51
Established in 1887 by Ernest Wilber, Rock Ledge Ranch is a historic ranch four miles west of Buena Vista in the Upper Arkansas Valley (17975 Co Rd 338, Buena Vista, CO 81211). Since 1908 the ranch has been owned and operated by multiple generations of the Franzel family, which immigrated to the...

Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building

Added by yongli on 10/27/2016 - 16:34, last changed on 11/04/2019 - 11:59
The Rocky Mountain National Park Administration Building, also known as the Beaver Meadows Visitor Center, is one of the most historically and architecturally significant National Park Service buildings in the country. It was listed as a National Historic Landmark in 2001. Designed by Frank Lloyd...

Romano Residence

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:12, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:35
The Romano Residence is a one-story Craftsman-style bungalow on South Golden Road in the Pleasant View neighborhood southeast of Golden (16300 S Golden Rd, Golden, CO 80401). Built in 1927, the cobblestone house has been in the Romano family since 1929 and remains largely in its original condition...

Rooney Ranch

Added by yongli on 08/24/2016 - 10:01, last changed on 11/02/2022 - 02:40
Established in 1861 between Green Mountain and the hogback known as Dinosaur Ridge , Rooney Ranch is the oldest property continuously operated by the same family in Jefferson County . It was also the county’s largest cattle ranch ever and has one of the oldest stone buildings in the county. Today...

Rossonian Hotel

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 14:07, last changed on 02/27/2021 - 01:07
The most prominent building at the Five Points intersection in Denver , the Rossonian Hotel opened in 1912 as the Baxter Hotel. Renamed the Rossonian in 1929, its lounge acquired a reputation as the best jazz club between the Midwest and the West Coast, with performances by jazz greats such as Duke...