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The Fort

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 15:56, last changed on 10/14/2019 - 10:58
The Fort, an adobe restaurant just south of Morrison , was modeled on historic Bent’s Old Fort and built using traditional Hispano methods and materials. Designed by William Lumpkins, an architect internationally known for his work in the adobe and Pueblo Revival styles, the Fort served as a...

Telephone Building

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 15:47, last changed on 03/13/2020 - 01:07
Completed in 1929, the Telephone Building at 931 14th Street in Denver served for fifty-five years as the headquarters of Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph . Designed by architect William N. Bowman in a combination of Art Deco and Gothic Revival styles, the building helped bring modern...

Stanley Hotel

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 15:07, last changed on 11/07/2019 - 12:20
Designed and funded by Freelan Oscar Stanley , the Stanley Hotel opened in 1909 in Estes Park. The first-class resort helped make Estes Park into a tourist destination, especially after the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park in 1915. In the late twentieth century, the hotel gained...

Seventeen Mile House

Added by yongli on 03/16/2016 - 14:19, last changed on 03/13/2020 - 01:07
Named for its location seventeen miles from the intersection of Broadway and Colfax Avenue in Denver , Seventeen Mile House operated in the 1860s and 1870s as a tavern and inn along the southern branch of the Smoky Hill Trail . After the arrival of the railroad ended stage travel along the route,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

El Corazon de Trinidad National Historic District

Added by yongli on 03/15/2016 - 15:22, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
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...

Cheyenne County Jail

Added by yongli on 03/15/2016 - 15:01, last changed on 09/22/2020 - 01:07
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-...

Indian Agencies and Agents

Added by yongli on 03/15/2016 - 12:10, last changed on 02/12/2021 - 01:07
Indian Agencies were established by the US government as part of the formal relationship with Indigenous nations as it acquired lands from them. Indian Agents were individuals responsible for cultivating relationships with Indigenous people and extending government policies. As treaties and...

Overland Trail

Added by yongli on 03/11/2016 - 16:42, last changed on 02/24/2021 - 01:07
The Overland Trail was an important nineteenth-century corridor for explorers and traders that ran from Atchison, Kansas, to Fort Bridger, Wyoming. It followed preexisting Native American trails throughout most of its length. The Overland Trail followed the Oregon Trail across Nebraska but veered...

Browns Canyon National Monument

Added by yongli on 03/11/2016 - 11:06, last changed on 05/11/2020 - 12:58
On February 19, 2015, President Obama designated 21,586 acres of scenic canyons, rivers, and backcountry forest in Chaffee County , Colorado, as the Browns Canyon National Monument. Browns Canyon is the eighth national monument designation within the state of Colorado. It provides visitors with...

Pike’s Stockade

Added by yongli on 03/07/2016 - 16:17, last changed on 01/31/2021 - 17:05
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...

Delta County

Added by yongli on 03/04/2016 - 10:21, last changed on 01/27/2021 - 09:52
Delta County covers 1,149 square miles of the Gunnison and Uncompahgre River valleys in west central Colorado, including the southern part of Grand Mesa and the northern part of the Uncompahgre Plateau. The county is bordered to the north and west by Mesa County , to the east by Gunnison County ,...

Colorado’s Great Plains

Added by yongli on 03/04/2016 - 10:12, last changed on 08/06/2020 - 10:33
Eastern Colorado, bordered by the foothills of the Rocky Mountains on the west, Kansas on the east, and the corners of Nebraska and Oklahoma, constitutes a portion of the Great Plains. It is the agricultural heartland of Colorado. This semiarid region is characterized by silty and sandy loam soils...

Denver Mountain Parks

Added by yongli on 03/01/2016 - 15:24, last changed on 02/14/2020 - 15:12
The Denver Mountain Park system consists of forty-six public parks that are home to some of the most popular mountain destinations near Denver , including Red Rocks , William “Buffalo Bill” Cody ’s Grave, Evergreen Lake, Lookout Mountain , and Echo Lake . This distinctive system of parks,...

Larimer County

Added by yongli on 03/01/2016 - 09:30, last changed on 02/01/2021 - 14:44
Located in north central Colorado, Larimer County encompasses more than 2,600 square miles of plains , foothills, and high mountains in the northern Front Range . The county shares its northern border with Wyoming and borders Weld County to the east, Jackson and Grand Counties to the west, and...

Colorado Territory

Added by yongli on 02/25/2016 - 14:22, last changed on 08/01/2020 - 08:40
The Territory of Colorado (1861–76) was the predecessor to the state of Colorado , created on February 28, 1861. The territory was formed in response to the secession crisis as well as a massive influx of white immigrants seeking their fortunes during the Colorado Gold Rush . It was organized by an...

Pitkin County

Added by yongli on 02/24/2016 - 16:58, last changed on 10/12/2020 - 01:07
Pitkin County, named after former Colorado governor Frederick Pitkin , is located in west-central Colorado, spanning 973 square miles of mountains and the Roaring Fork River valley. It is bordered by Garfield and Eagle Counties to the north, Lake and Chaffee Counties to the east, Gunnison County to...

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