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Spanning the Roaring Fork River near Carbondale, the Satank Bridge is a singular throwback to Colorado’s earliest period of wagon bridge construction. Its abutments are hand-laid stone masonry, which had been used extensively in the 19th century before the...
The Snowstorm Dredge was part of the largest and last dragline dredge in Colorado, and possibly the last in the nation. Used from 1941 to the 1960s, it completed the work of several hundred men as it dug and processed ore in the gold fields between Fairplay and Alma....
In 1909, Nunzio Grasso constructed the rusticated sandstone Stranges Grocery Store, now the last remaining building in what used to be Grand Junction’s “Little Italy.” The building has become part of the West-Side Redevelopment Area. The City of...
Located on the north side of Colfax Avenue near East High School, the Sullivan Gateway is an impressive and grand entry to the City Park Esplanade. Built in 1917, Sullivan Gateway was originally conceived by George Kessler in his 1906 plan for Denver City Parks....
For 90 years, the eclectic Tarryall-Cline Ranch house has stood proudly like a sentinel amidst a beautiful meadow just off Highway 285 in Park County. The main ranch house was built in 1928 by the ranch owner, Foster Cline, Sr., a prominent Denver attorney. Cline was...
Built in 1910, the Toltec Hotel stands as one of Trinidad’s treasures. One of many architecturally diverse landmark buildings within the El Corazon de Trinidad National Register Historic District, the Toltec is the only surviving terra cotta building in...
With great fanfare and more than 1,500 valley residents in attendance, U.S. Vice President Charles G. Dawes placed the cornerstone of the American Legion Hall in Alamosa on July 27, 1925. The Legion Hall – to become the Rialto Theater two years later –...
Reiling Gold Dredge is one of the most important surviving reminders of Summit County’s early twentieth-century gold dredging era. Located about 2.6 miles east of Breckenridge in French Gulch, the dredge was built for the French Gulch Dredging Company during the...
When empires were built in a nationwide drive toward industrialism, John Cleveland Osgood constructed a forty-two-room castle, which he christened Cleveholm Manor as a testament to his achievements. Osgood formed the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), which...