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Longmont Carnegie Library

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:22, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

Kuner-Empson Cannery

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:17, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:07
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...

Callahan House

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

Sculptured House

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 11:10, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:45
The Sculptured House was designed by modernist architect Charles Deaton and built in 1963–66 on Genesee Mountain west of Denver . Deaton’s only house design, the building is distinctive for its clamshell shape, which can be seen rising above Interstate 70 and was featured in Woody Allen’s 1973...

Marble Jailhouse

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 11:06, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

Key Savings and Loan Association Building

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:53, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

Fort Logan National Cemetery

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:33, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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...

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...

Collegiate Peaks Stampede Rodeo Grounds

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:16, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

Buffalo Peaks Ranch

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 16:14, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

Black Forest Community Church

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 14:45, last changed on 09/19/2017 - 01:07
The Black Forest Community Church occupies a row of three buildings on the southeast corner of Shoup and Black Forest Roads in the rural community of Black Forest in northern El Paso County . The church had its origins in a Sunday school started in 1932, with members incorporating a church...

Anne Evans Mountain Home

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 14:41, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
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,...

Sterling

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 14:05, last changed on 09/19/2017 - 01:07
Sterling is the county seat of Logan County in northeastern Colorado. Founded by homesteaders along the South Platte River in 1881, Sterling quickly developed into a commercial hub on Colorado’s eastern plains. Although it has been through its share of booms and busts, the town continues to serve...

Creede Railroad Depot/Museum

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 13:46, last changed on 09/16/2017 - 01:07
The Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) built the Creede Railroad Depot in 1893 to handle freight and passenger traffic in the historic mining town of Creede . Located on the north end of town near the corner of Loma Avenue and Wall Street, the depot was a central part of Creede’s economy...

Dickens Opera House

Added by yongli on 06/28/2017 - 13:36, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

Chimney Rock

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 15:11, last changed on 09/02/2017 - 01:07
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 rocky...

Squirrel Creek Recreation District

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:41, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:45
Developed primarily between 1919 and 1924, the Squirrel Creek Recreation District in the San Isabel National Forest near Pueblo was one of the earliest recreational developments in a national forest and served as a model for many others to come. The recreation district is also notable for its...

Olsen-Chubbuck Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:37, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
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...

“Little Rome”

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:13, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:09
“Little Rome” was a residential area in Henson, a San Juan mining camp a few miles west of Lake City that peaked in the 1890s. Henson is notable for being the site of an 1899 strike carried out at the Ute Ulay and Hidden Treasure mines by Italians affiliated with the Western Federation of Miners ...

Jones-Miller Bison Kill Site

Added by yongli on 06/02/2017 - 14:09, last changed on 09/16/2017 - 15:03
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,...

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