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Horsetooth Reservoir

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Horsetooth Reservoir is located in the foothills just west of Fort Collins . The Bureau of Reclamation began construction of the reservoir in 1946 as part of the larger Colorado–Big Thompson Project , which provided additional irrigation water for the northern Front Range . Horsetooth Reservoir was...

Denver International Airport

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Located on a 52.4-square-mile site 25 miles northeast of the city, Denver International Airport (DIA) is the largest airport in North America by land area and the second-largest in the world. This vast airport with a spectacular tented terminal makes Denver one of the nation’s top air hubs. Since...

Trappers Lake and Flat Tops Wilderness

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The Flat Tops Wilderness covers more than 235,000 acres of remote mountains and forests in Garfield , Rio Blanco , and Eagle Counties on Colorado’s Western Slope . Its most popular natural feature is Trappers Lake, the state’s second-largest natural lake, fed by the North Fork of the White River...

Hover Home and Farmstead

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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...

Palmer Lake Star

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 15:25, last changed on 07/31/2020 - 15:25
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...

Sacred Heart Cathedral

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The Sacred Heart Cathedral at 1025 North Grand Avenue in Pueblo was dedicated as Sacred Heart Church in 1913. A rare example of Gothic Revival architecture in Pueblo, the cathedral demonstrates the continued importance of Catholicism in the history of Colorado. In 1942 the Vatican responded to the...

Kaplan-Hoover Bison Kill Site

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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...

Leslie J. Savage Library

Added by yongli on 07/31/2020 - 14:04, last changed on 07/31/2020 - 14:12
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,...

Denver Tramway Powerhouse

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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 City Cable Railway Building

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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...

Richthofen Castle

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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...

S. A. Wilson Elementary School

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 17:04, last changed on 07/06/2020 - 17:04
S. A. Wilson Elementary School is a midcentury school that opened in the Colorado Springs suburb of Security-Widefield in 1959. Originally built and soon expanded to help Security-Widefield accommodate a massive population increase during the decades after World War II , the school reflects one of...

Tramway Building (Hotel Teatro)

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Completed in 1911, the Tramway Building (1100 Fourteenth Street, Denver) consists of a striking red-and-white tower and adjacent car barn that originally served as the headquarters of the powerful Denver Tramway Company . In 1956 Tramway sold the building to the University of Colorado , which...

Ross-Broadway Branch, Denver Public Library

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 16:57, last changed on 07/06/2020 - 16:57
The Ross-Broadway Branch of the Denver Public Library was built in 1950–51 using funds from the organization’s Frederick R. Ross Library Trust. Designed by Victor Hornbein , the building at the corner of East Bayaud Avenue and South Lincoln Street features Usonian design elements reminiscent of the...

Leadville

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Leadville, 1950s

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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...

Farmers State Bank of Cope

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 16:49, last changed on 07/06/2020 - 16:49
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...

Animas Canyon Toll Road

Added by yongli on 07/06/2020 - 16:38, last changed on 07/06/2020 - 16:38
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...

Colorado Congressional Districts

Added by yongli on 06/09/2020 - 14:59, last changed on 06/22/2020 - 10:50
Colorado is divided into seven Congressional districts according to population, with each district represented by an elected member of the United States House of Representatives. Colorado representatives serve two-year terms, as required by the US Constitution. There are no term limits for members...

Fort Morgan

Added by yongli on 06/09/2020 - 10:26, last changed on 07/24/2020 - 07:52
Fort Morgan is a city of about 12,000 people along the South Platte River , about seventy miles northeast of Denver . It is part of the high plains region that an early explorer, Major Stephen Long , called the “Great American Desert.” As the center of a robust agricultural area, Fort Morgan was...

Sakura Square

Added by yongli on 06/09/2020 - 10:03, last changed on 06/10/2020 - 14:04
Located in the historic heart of Denver ’s Japanese community, Sakura Square is bounded by Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets and Larimer and Lawrence Streets in the Lower Downtown district, or LoDo . The square, named for the Japanese word for “cherry blossom,” was built in the early 1970s as part...

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