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All Souls Unitarian Church

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 16:38, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Completed in 1893, All Souls Unitarian Church—now known as All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church—stands at 730 North Tejon Street in Colorado Springs . Located close to the Colorado College campus, the church is notable for its distinctive Shingle architectural style and its association with the...

Eads Community Church

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 16:35, last changed on 10/29/2019 - 11:27
Located at the intersection of Eleventh and Goff Streets in Eads , the Eads Community Church is the oldest, largest, and best-preserved religious building in Kiowa County . Construction on the building began in 1923 under William Stickney, but it was not completed until 1951 when John James Wallace...

Cardinal Mill

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 16:14, last changed on 08/14/2022 - 21:12
Located about two miles west of Nederland in western Boulder County , the Cardinal Mill processed gold, silver, and tungsten ore from its parent mine, the Boulder County Tunnel, as well as other local mines between 1902 and 1942. The Cardinal Mill was an essential part of the area’s tungsten boom...

Jamaica Primary School

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 15:43, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Jamaica Primary School is a midcentury elementary school designed by Atchison & Kloverstrom that opened in Aurora ’s Havana Park neighborhood in 1958. Part of a massive school-building effort by Aurora Public Schools to keep up with the city’s booming postwar population, Jamaica was intended to...

Cleora Cemetery

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 15:03, last changed on 08/11/2022 - 07:03

Cleora Cemetery

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Cleora Cemetery is a historic four-and-a-half-acre burial ground located on a hill south of the Arkansas River about two miles southeast of downtown Salida . Originally associated with the short-lived town of Cleora, the cemetery received its first burials around 1880 and was the only cemetery in...

Colorado Building

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 15:00, last changed on 08/12/2022 - 07:38
The Colorado Building at 409 North Main Street in Pueblo was built in 1925 on the site of the former Grand Opera House. The four-story rectangular building housed many of Pueblo’s major artistic and commercial outfits throughout the twentieth century, including the Publix Theater, the Southern...

Petticrew Stage Stop

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 14:43, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
Surrounded by prairie grass and juniper, the Petticrew Stage Stop stands approximately twenty-five miles south of Lamar in Prowers County . Built in the early 1890s by John L. Petticrew, the building served as a stop between Lamar and Springfield , providing travelers with a place to eat and...

Lands End Observatory

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 14:36, last changed on 05/29/2020 - 01:07
Perched on the edge of Grand Mesa in western Colorado’s Mesa County , the Lands End Observatory was built in 1936–37 and gives visitors a spectacular view of the Gunnison and Grand River Valleys, the Uncompahgre Plateau, the San Juan Mountains , and the La Sal Mountains in Utah. Construction for...

Teller House

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 13:54, last changed on 05/05/2020 - 18:29
Built in 1871–72 by brothers Henry M. Teller and Willard Teller, the Teller House is one of the oldest and most important buildings in Central City . It has served as the town’s main hotel for more than sixty years. The four-story brick hotel played host to Central City’s most important visitors,...

Mesa Schoolhouse

Added by yongli on 05/21/2018 - 13:36, last changed on 12/10/2018 - 09:11
The bright-red Mesa Schoolhouse, located off US 40 about two miles south of Steamboat Springs , is among the oldest examples of a one-story wood-frame school building still standing in Colorado. Built in 1916 by Arthur Gumprecht, the schoolhouse served Routt County School District #13 until 1959,...

State Bridge

Added by yongli on 12/21/2017 - 13:24, last changed on 04/17/2020 - 08:25
State Bridge spans the Colorado River along Highway 131 in Eagle County and was originally constructed in 1890. Built with state funding, the bridge helped promote growth by providing the only east–west transportation link across the state that was open year-round. The original truss bridge was...

Sisyphus Shelter Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 12/21/2017 - 13:21, last changed on 10/08/2019 - 13:37
The Sisyphus Shelter Archaeological Site was an Archaic period (5500 BCE–150 CE) rockshelter on the northwest side of the Colorado River between Parachute and De Beque . Before the shelter was destroyed by the construction of Interstate 70 , it was excavated in 1979–80 by John Gooding and other...

El Pomar Estate

Added by yongli on 12/11/2017 - 15:47, last changed on 08/18/2022 - 07:25
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
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...

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