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Crystal Mill

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:17, last changed on 01/05/2018 - 14:10
Built in 1892, the Crystal Mill is a log-and-frame structure atop a rocky outcrop along the Crystal River in northwest Gunnison County . At the time of its construction, the “mill” served as a powerhouse for local silver mines, allowing both the mines and the town of Crystal to stay afloat despite...

Lake Agnes Cabin

Added by yongli on 05/19/2017 - 10:10, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Lake Agnes Cabin is a one-room log cabin about a half-mile north of Lake Agnes in the Never Summer Mountains . Built in 1925, the cabin was intended to provide accommodations for a boys’ summer camp and was later used by forest rangers in the area. Today it is in State Forest State Park and is...

Cozens Ranch

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 16:34, last changed on 04/30/2018 - 09:38
Built in 1874 by pioneer homesteader William Zane Cozens , Cozens Ranch was an important early ranch and stage stop in the Fraser River valley in north-central Colorado. The ranch also served for nearly thirty years as the area’s main post office. The Cozens family later donated the ranch to the...

Colorado Chautauqua

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 16:26, last changed on 08/29/2017 - 08:04
Established in 1898 on what was then a barren mesa south of Boulder , Colorado Chautauqua has been providing education and entertainment programs for well over a century. Originally founded by Texas educators, the Chautauqua in Boulder was part of a nationwide movement emphasizing intellectual and...

Calhan Paint Mines

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:46, last changed on 08/17/2018 - 01:07
Located near Calhan , about thirty-five miles northeast of Colorado Springs , the Calhan Paint Mines are an area of clay deposits that have seen extensive prehistoric habitation and historic quarrying of the clay for pottery and bricks. In the 1990s, archaeological fieldwork at the site revealed...

Bain’s Department Store

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:34, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 08:11
In 1935 Joe Bain and his son, Victor, opened Bain’s Department Store on Main Street in Alamosa . After Bain’s closed, Victor Bain continued to own the building for decades, renting it out to a variety of automobile dealers and appliance shops. In 1994 the local nonprofit La Puente acquired the...

US Air Force Academy Cadet Area

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:24, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 07:32
Built primarily between 1955 and 1959, the US Air Force Academy cadet area near Colorado Springs is the heart of the Air Force Academy campus and home of the school’s 4,000 undergraduates. Occupying a prominent hilltop location, the cadet area hosts most regular college functions, including dorms,...

Empire Chief Mine and Mill

Added by yongli on 05/17/2017 - 15:18, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Empire Chief Mine and Mill site is an abandoned nineteenth-century metal mining complex in Hinsdale County , located several miles west of Lake City on the southern slope of Sheep Mountain (83 Sunny Ave, Empire, CO 80438). The mine was established in 1885 after the discovery of the Bonanza Lode...

Downtown Loveland Historic District

Added by yongli on 05/16/2017 - 16:48, last changed on 01/29/2018 - 01:07
Centered on East Fourth Street, the Downtown Loveland Historic District comprises nine square blocks of the town’s original commercial district. Most of the district lies within the original town plat, and at least fourteen of its fifty-eight buildings date to the late nineteenth century. On...

Willowcroft Manor

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 13:42, last changed on 01/11/2018 - 01:07
Willowcroft Manor was built in 1884 as the home of Littleton -area pioneer Joseph W. Bowles. Designed by early Colorado architect Robert S. Roeschlaub , the two-story stone house was on Bowles’s property near the southwest corner of what is now West Bowles Avenue (which was named for Bowles) and...

Wilbur Thomas Shelter Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 13:40, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:08
The Wilbur Thomas Shelter Archaeological Site is a rockshelter in northwest Weld County featuring evidence of at least six intermittent occupations stretching over 8,500 years. David A. Breternitz and graduate students from the University of Colorado excavated the site in 1969. They found no...

Tremont House Hotel

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 12:04, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 08:56
The Tremont House Hotel was established in the fall of 1859 near Cherry Creek in Auraria (later West Denver) and soon became one of Denver ’s top hotels. In the 1880s, the hotel declined as flood-prone West Denver became home to immigrants and industry while wealthy residents moved to new...

Texas Creek Overlook Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 11:37, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 07:25
The Texas Creek Overlook Archaeological Site is a picturesque Fremont masonry structure located on a sandstone pinnacle in the rugged canyons south of Rangely . In 1983 the overlook was excavated by Steven D. Creasman of Western Wyoming College in conjunction with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM...

Stewart’s Cattle Guard Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 11:14, last changed on 08/31/2017 - 06:51
The Stewart’s Cattle Guard Archaeological Site in the San Luis Valley represents a late summer or early fall bison hunting camp occupied by Folsom peoples in the Paleo-Indian period (before 6000 BCE). The site was discovered in the late 1970s and excavated by the Smithsonian Institution’s Paleo-...

Spruce Tree House

Added by yongli on 05/05/2017 - 10:51, last changed on 03/06/2018 - 10:59
Spruce Tree House is the third-largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park , and the first seen by most visitors because of its location near park headquarters. Built by Ancestral Puebloans in the 1200s, the 114-room dwelling was rediscovered by rancher Richard Wetherill and Charles Mason in...

Manitou Springs Spa Building

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 16:12, last changed on 08/26/2017 - 16:15
The Manitou Springs Spa Building stands on top of Soda (or Manitou) Spring on the north bank of Fountain Creek in downtown Manitou Springs . The three-story Spanish Colonial Revival building was built in 1920 to help revive Manitou’s sagging health tourism industry by offering modern mineral water...

Long House

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 14:42, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
Long House is the second-largest cliff dwelling in Mesa Verde National Park . Built by Ancestral Puebloans in the 1200s, the 150-room dwelling was rediscovered by the Wetherill brothers and Charles Mason in early 1890. In the late 1950s and early 1960s, it was excavated and eventually opened to...

Harris Archaeological Site

Added by yongli on 05/04/2017 - 11:00, last changed on 12/28/2017 - 13:43
The Harris Archaeological Site includes an Archaic period rockshelter first occupied at least 3,500 years ago, associated rock art , and a separate historic Ute campsite along a drainage on the eastern edge of the Uncompahgre Plateau . The site is named for Bill Harris, who discovered it in 1984,...

Gold Hill

Added by yongli on 05/03/2017 - 16:54, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 20:47
Gold Hill was established in 1859 as the first permanent mining camp in the Colorado mountains. Located at an elevation of about 8,300 feet in Boulder County , the town experienced several booms and busts before settling into a small-scale tourist economy in the twentieth century. Today Gold Hill—...

Driggs Mansion

Added by yongli on 05/03/2017 - 16:52, last changed on 08/25/2017 - 20:18
Driggs Mansion is a one-story sandstone house in Unaweep Canyon that was built for Laurence Driggs around 1918. Constructed by Grand Junction stonemason Nunzio Grasso and his son, the house later served as a hunting retreat before parts of it were torn down in the 1940s and 1950s. Today the mansion...

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