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Community in Colorado: A Confluence of Cultures

Added by yongli on 09/13/2017 - 15:27, last changed on 09/13/2017 - 17:39
One popular vision of Colorado presents a region of open spaces where a lone man rides into the setting sun. He is strong, silent, and through individual effort manages to save the girl, bring in the cattle, and haul the “bad guys” off to jail, all before the credits roll. This is the individualist...

Fort Collins

Added by yongli on 09/13/2017 - 14:46, last changed on 09/13/2017 - 17:39
Fort Collins, the fourth-most populous city in Colorado, lies along the Cache la Poudre River near the foothills of the northern Front Range . The seat of Larimer County , Fort Collins was founded as an Army camp in 1864 and has since developed into a regional hub for education, business, culture,...

Daniels Park

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 15:14, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

Willow Creek Park

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 13:58, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:08
Willow Creek Park in southeast Lamar was built primarily by the Civil Works Administration and the Works Progress Administration from 1933 to 1938. Using local labor and materials, the New Deal agencies built a series of dams for flood mitigation and constructed several rustic stone structures for...

Wiley Rock Schoolhouse

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 13:38, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:08
The Wiley Rock Schoolhouse, built by the Works Progress Administration in 1938, is located on Main Street in the Prowers County town of Wiley (603 Main Street in Wiley, Colorado). Originally built as an annex for the adjacent Wiley High School, Wiley Rock Schoolhouse is made of reused concrete...

Sim Hudson Motor Company

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 13:27, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:45
The Sim Hudson Motor Company at Thirteenth Street and Senter Avenue in Burlington (1332 Senter Ave.,Burlington, Colorado), the Kit Carson County seat , served as a car dealership and service center for more than eighty years. Built around 1919 as the Golden Belt Garage, it was soon acquired by Sim...

First Baptist Church of Moffat

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 13:13, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

Fairplay Hotel

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 12:54, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

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...

Longmont Historic Districts

Added by yongli on 08/25/2017 - 11:32, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

Western Hotel

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:54, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:01
The Western Hotel at 716 Cooper Avenue in Glenwood Springs started in 1887 as a one-story brick restaurant building. In the early twentieth century, the building was expanded under the ownership of the Bosco family, which began renting rooms there by the early 1920s. Later owned and operated for...

Trout Creek Ranch

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:52, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 07:32
Trout Creek Ranch has its origin in lands consolidated by English investors Edward Arthur and David Chalmers along Trout Creek in the 1870s. The ranch, which stretches for about four miles in the valley between Red Hill and Reinecker Ridge southeast of Fairplay, later became part of some of the...

Staley-Rouse House

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:46, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:46
Located at 518 Main Street in Frisco , the Staley-Rouse House was built in 1908–9 for William and Alvarena Staley. The house is unique in Colorado for having a first floor made of vertical logs and a second floor of horizontal logs, which gives it a distinctive and easily recognizable look. In 2017...

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...

Montezuma Schoolhouse

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:19, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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,...

Lost Trail Ranch

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:13, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

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...

Hayden Ranch

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:02, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

Harms Farm

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:52, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

Longmont College / The Landmark

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:28, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

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