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Western Hotel

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 13:54, last changed on 12/06/2017 - 01:07

Western Hotel

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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 10/08/2019 - 09:01
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 12/06/2017 - 01:07
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 12/28/2017 - 13:43
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 03/18/2020 - 13:07
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 05/11/2020 - 09:53
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 01/08/2018 - 01:07
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 11/07/2019 - 12:09
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...

Longmont Carnegie Library

Added by yongli on 07/05/2017 - 12:22, last changed on 05/22/2020 - 01:07
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 11/11/2019 - 10:59
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 04/08/2020 - 11:11
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 04/17/2020 - 08:58
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 10/14/2019 - 12:19
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 03/26/2018 - 14:10
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 12/28/2017 - 13:43
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 05/13/2020 - 10:52
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...

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