Places

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 to...

Colorado, “the Centennial State,” was the thirty-eighth state to enter the Union on August 1, 1876. Its diverse geography encompasses 104,094 square miles of the American West and includes swathes of the Great Plains , southern Rocky Mountains , and the Colorado Plateau. Colorado has an average...

Platted in 1902, the Gustav and Annie Swanson Farm stands at 1932 North Highway 287 in Berthoud . The farm is located along US Highway 287 roughly one-and-a-half miles north of downtown Berthoud at the intersection of CR-10E. The Swanson Farm is an example of the Craftsman Bungalow architectural...

Built in 1943, the Department of Energy Grand Junction Office, also known as the “Manhattan Engineer District Grand Junction Office” and the “Atomic Energy Commission Grand Junction Operations Office,” stands at 2591 Legacy Way in Grand Junction . During and after World War II , the complex served...

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...

Trail Ridge Road snakes roughly fifty miles across Rocky Mountain National Park , from Estes Park to Grand Lake . Planned and built from about 1929 to 1938, the road provided a safer route across the Continental Divide for the park’s growing number of visitors. Trail Ridge Road reaches an elevation...

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...

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...

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...