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Given Institute

Added by yongli on 05/24/2017 - 16:30, last changed on 12/09/2017 - 01:07
The Given Institute was an International Style conference and laboratory building designed by Harry Weese and built in 1972 at 100 East Francis Street in Aspen . Built on land that formerly belonged to Elizabeth Paepcke near Hallam Lake, the building was owned by the University of Colorado and used...

Jurgens Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:47, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Jurgens Archaeological Site is a Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE) bison processing site that dates to about 7120 BCE and includes the remains of at least sixty-eight bison spread across three separate camps. Located about nine miles east of Greeley near the South Platte River , the site...

Grand Junction Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:43, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43

Grand Junction Depot

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The Grand Junction Depot is a two-story Italian Renaissance railroad station built in 1906 to accommodate the city’s growing rail traffic. A downtown landmark, the building serves as a reminder of the important role that railroads—especially the Denver & Rio Grande (later the Denver & Rio...

Draper Cave Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:38, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Draper Cave Archaeological Site contains evidence of human occupation dating back to the Middle Archaic period (3000–1000 BCE). In 1972 the Denver chapter of the Colorado Archaeological Society excavated the site under the supervision of Ivol K. Hagar. The most important discovery was the...

Crested Butte

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:36, last changed on 01/10/2018 - 01:07
Founded in 1878, Crested Butte is a former coal-mining town turned ski resort nestled in the Elk Mountains of northern Gunnison County . The town lies about twenty-eight miles north of the county seat of Gunnison and about the same distance south of Aspen . At nearly 9,000 feet of elevation and...

Wild Horse School

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:32, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:08
The Wild Horse School was built in 1911–12 and served until 1964 as the only school in the town of Wild Horse (8513 State Hwy 40 287, Wild Horse, CO 80862), in Cheyenne County . Originally a two-room building, the schoolhouse was expanded when a separate one-room structure was moved to the site in...

Tigiwon Community House

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:29, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Tigiwon Community House was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933–34 as a meeting spot for pilgrims coming to see Mount of the Holy Cross . Located along Tigiwon Road south of Minturn at an elevation of about 10,000 feet, the rustic log building continues to serve as a meeting...

Prowers County Welfare Housing

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:26
The five-building Prowers County Welfare Housing complex on the north side of Lamar was built in 1938–41 as a series of Works Progress Administration (WPA) projects. The one-story sandstone buildings were the only New Deal public housing complex constructed in eastern Colorado. In 2009 the complex...

Notch Mountain Shelter

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 16:23, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
The Notch Mountain Shelter was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) in 1933 as a shelter for pilgrims coming to see nearby Mount of the Holy Cross . Located on the south shoulder of Notch Mountain at an elevation of about 13,100 feet, the rustic stone shelter is near the spot where in...

Limon Railroad Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:52, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
The Limon Railroad Depot was built in 1910 on a triangular piece of land bounded by the intersection of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad (CRI&P) and Union Pacific Railroad (UP) lines. The interchange made Limon , in Lincoln County , an important railroad hub, and the town’s depot...

Genesee Park

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:49, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:07
Genesee Park is a Denver Mountain Park that stretches from Clear Creek Canyon to Genesee Mountain in the Rocky Mountain foothills about five miles southwest of Golden . In addition to the 8,424-foot summit of Genesee Mountain, attractions at the 2,413-acre park include Beaver Brook Trail and the...

Cheesman Park

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:45, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:06
One of the jewels of Denver’s park and parkway system , Cheesman Park (1601 Race St, Denver, CO 80206) sits on land that originally served as the city’s first cemetery. In 1890 the cemetery was closed, many—but not all—graves were relocated, and a park designed by Denver’s first landscape architect...

Bradford-Perley House

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 15:33, last changed on 09/02/2017 - 01:07
The Bradford-Perley House was originally built in about 1860 to serve as a station house along Robert Bradford ’s wagon road to mining areas in the Rocky Mountains. Located in what is now Ken-Caryl Ranch southwest of Denver , the house later became the headquarters of the Perley family’s ranching...

Roxborough State Park Archaeological District

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:17, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:35
The Roxborough State Park Archaeological District contains one historic homestead and a variety of prehistoric rockshelters and campsites dating back to at least the Early Archaic period (5500–3000 BCE). It is located at the southern end of the valley between the hogback ridge and the foothills,...

Romano Residence

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:12, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:35
The Romano Residence is a one-story Craftsman-style bungalow on South Golden Road in the Pleasant View neighborhood southeast of Golden (16300 S Golden Rd, Golden, CO 80401). Built in 1927, the cobblestone house has been in the Romano family since 1929 and remains largely in its original condition...

Pine Hall

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:09, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:26
Pine Hall is the only historic false-front wood building remaining in Granite , a small town along the Arkansas River about halfway between Buena Vista and Leadville . Built in 1896 as a community center, the building later housed a variety of commercial operations before being converted for...

Loveland C&S Rail Depot

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 13:01, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
Whether it was stagecoaches on the Overland Trail , steam locomotives bringing crops to market, or automobiles carrying tourists to nearby Rocky Mountain National Park , the city of Loveland has long served as a transportation hub along Colorado’s Front Range . The city’s Colorado & Southern...

Lake City

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 11:29, last changed on 01/10/2018 - 01:07
At an elevation of 8,661 feet in the heart of the San Juan Mountains , the historic mining town of Lake City is the only incorporated town in Hinsdale County . Named for nearby Lake San Cristobal , the town was founded in 1874 in a broad valley along the Lake Fork of the Gunnison River . Between...

Fort Morgan State Armory

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 11:03, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Built in 1922, the Fort Morgan State Armory is located at 528 State Street in Fort Morgan in northeast Colorado (528 State St, 80701 Fort Morgan, United States). It served as headquarters of Company M, Seventeenth Infantry of the Colorado National Guard until 1996, when the guard moved to Denver...

Debus Farm

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:35, last changed on 12/08/2017 - 01:07
The Debus Farm is a historic sugar beet farm in Logan County , located north of the South Platte River near the intersection of US 138 and County Road 67. Founded by the German Russian Debus family in 1925, the farm is a prominent example of the contributions that German Russian families made to...

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