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El Pomar Estate

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:47, last changed on 12/05/2019 - 01:07
The El Pomar Estate at 1661 Mesa Avenue in Colorado Springs was originally built in 1909 as a private residence for Grace Goodyear Depew. Following her death, prominent Colorado businessman and philanthropist Spencer Penrose purchased and improved the estate. Penrose died in 1939 and the estate was...

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:34, last changed on 04/02/2020 - 01:07
The Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center at 30 West Dale Street was built in 1936 as a community center for the visual and performing arts. Originally designed by John Gaw Meem using a mix of Pueblo Revival and Art Deco styles, the Fine Arts Center houses art galleries, teaching facilities, art...

Colorado Sanitary Canning Factory

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:32, last changed on 11/04/2019 - 13:48
The Colorado Sanitary Canning Factory at 224 North Main Street in Brighton was built in 1908 to serve as a processing facility for the growing South Platte agricultural community. The factory closed in 1936. Also known as the Brighton Prisoner of War Branch Camp, the facility helped house 589...

Cokedale Historic District

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:27, last changed on 01/31/2021 - 16:44
Nestled along Reilly Creek about eight miles west of Trinidad in Las Animas County , the Cokedale Historic District represents an excellent example of an early twentieth-century coal camp in the Raton Basin coalfield. In 1906 the American Smelting and Refining Company started construction in the...

Cayton Ranger Station

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:09, last changed on 01/30/2021 - 09:33
The Cayton Ranger Station (also known as the Cayton Guard Station) sits just inside the White River National Forest , about eighteen miles south of Silt, Colorado. Built between 1909 and 1910 by James Grimshaw Cayton, one of the nation’s first rangers, the station originally consisted of an L-...

Longmont

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 13:09, last changed on 07/11/2021 - 12:40

Fourth & Main, c. 1900

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Longmont is a city of about 92,000 along the Front Range in eastern Boulder County . Named after the prominent Longs Peak to the west, the city was founded in 1871 by members of the Chicago-Colorado Colony , near the confluence of Left Hand and St. Vrain Creeks. After its founding, Longmont quickly...

Broomfield Depot

Added by yongli on 12/07/2017 - 12:21, last changed on 02/14/2020 - 15:42
The Broomfield Depot was built in 1909 to serve the Colorado & Southern and Denver & Interurban Railroads . It is a rare surviving example of a combination passenger and freight depot that also served both steam railroad and electric interurban lines, and it is the only Denver &...

Cherokee Ranch and Castle

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:20, last changed on 10/03/2019 - 10:53
Cherokee Ranch includes more than three thousand acres of land along US 85 near Sedalia in Douglas County . In the late nineteenth century, the land was homesteaded by the Blunt and Flower families. Denver businessman Charles Alfred Johnson acquired the Flower land in 1924 and hired Burnham Hoyt to...

Garden Park School

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:12, last changed on 06/19/2020 - 01:07
The Garden Park School is a one-story brick schoolhouse completed in 1895 to replace an earlier school that was destroyed by fire. Standing at a prominent bend in Garden Park Road about nine miles north of Cañon City , the school served local students until 1961 and served as a community center for...

Peoples Presbyterian Church

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 15:02, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:45
Peoples Presbyterian Church was founded in June 1906 and is Denver ’s oldest continuously active black Presbyterian congregation. In 1908 the congregation acquired its first permanent home at the former First Cumberland Presbyterian building a few blocks south of Five Points , which was then...

Westminster University

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 14:42, last changed on 06/19/2020 - 01:07
Westminster University at 3455 West 83rd Avenue in Westminster is an imposing, red Richardsonian Romanesque building that gave the city its name and still serves as an important local visual landmark. Started in 1892, the building languished before opening in 1908 as the main building of...

Upper Arkansas Indian Agency

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 13:56, last changed on 01/31/2021 - 17:11
The Upper Arkansas Indian Agency was established in 1855 at Bent’s New Fort to service tribes along the upper part of the Arkansas River in eastern Colorado and western Kansas. It was also known as the Big Timbers Agency for the extensive stands of cottonwoods along the Arkansas River. In 1866 the...

William H. Dickens

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 13:51, last changed on 11/11/2019 - 11:48
William Henry Dickens (c. 1842–1915) was a homestead er , farmer, and businessman in the St. Vrain valley. A prominent early citizen of Longmont , Dickens built the Dickens Opera House , established Farmers National Bank, and helped organize the Farmers Milling and Elevator Company, among other...

Chicago-Colorado Colony

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 12:21, last changed on 03/19/2021 - 17:58
The Chicago-Colorado Colony (1871–73) established the city of Longmont near the confluence of St. Vrain and Left Hand Creeks in 1871. Financed by wealthy Chicagoans and consisting mostly of immigrants from the Midwest, the colony was an agricultural community that emphasized thrift, temperance, and...

Burlington (Boulder County)

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 12:19, last changed on 05/04/2020 - 10:28
Burlington was a small homestead community along St. Vrain Creek , near present-day Longmont . Founded in 1860 by prospector Alonzo N. Allen, Burlington was named after Burlington, Iowa. The settlement grew to a population of about 150 before the Chicago-Colorado Colony absorbed it in 1871. The...

Middle Park Indian Agency

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 12:09, last changed on 04/01/2020 - 11:46
The Middle Park Agency was established in 1862 for the Grand River, Uinta , and Yampa Utes . One of many federal Indian agencies established in Colorado during the 1860s, the Middle Park Agency mostly operated from Denver . After the Treaty of 1868 established a reservation for the Utes west of the...

Denver Special Indian Agency

Added by yongli on 12/06/2017 - 11:05, last changed on 02/07/2021 - 01:07
The Denver Special Agency was established to provide goods and services to the Ute Indians visiting the plains of Colorado between 1871 and 1875. The agency served Utes who were accustomed to collecting supplies from Denver’s Middle Park Agency during the 1860s but had been reassigned to a...

Conejos Indian Agency

Added by yongli on 12/05/2017 - 16:41, last changed on 03/18/2020 - 12:53
The Conejos Indian Agency was established in the San Luis Valley for the Ute Indians in 1860. It was an important place where annuity goods were distributed to the Utes and treaty negotiations took place. After the Treaty of 1868 established a reservation for the Utes west of the Rocky Mountains in...

Ute Indian Museum

Added by yongli on 12/05/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 04/29/2020 - 01:07
The Ute people , or as they call themselves, Nuche (The People), are Colorado’s longest continuous residents. Their rich cultural heritage and history is on display at the Ute Indian Museum. Nestled in the heart of traditional Uncompahgre Ute territory in Montrose , the Ute Indian Museum is History...

A Confluence of Cultures: An Introduction to the Community Section

Added by yongli on 09/13/2017 - 15:27, last changed on 09/04/2021 - 12:13
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...

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