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Booker T. Washington’s book, Up From Slavery, was published in 1901, advocating education and land ownership for African-Americans to obtain social, political, and economic parity in America. This became Oliver Jackson’s inspiration to seek a farming...
On the National Register of Historic Places, the school was built in 1911 and met the educational needs of the community for almost fifty years. The building is reported to be the last remaining rural brick schoolhouse in Weld County. The Daniels family immigrated to...
The Currigan Exhibition Hall long stood as one of Denver’s precedent-setting works of modern architecture. Upon its completion in 1969, Currigan boasted 100,000 square feet of column-free exhibition space, was the world’s largest rigid space frame, and was...
Crossan’s Market, built in 1903, is an excellent and remarkably intact example of a small-town mercantile building that reflects the development of Yampa and the surrounding agricultural economy. For generations, it served the community with everything from groceries...
One of the three most historic mining towns in Colorado and the nation. A National Historic District. Cripple Creek adopted strict design guidelines which address the treatment of historic structures and require new construction within the district to be appropriate...
The Craig Depot is an example of the architectural style of the early 1900s. The Moffat Line and the Craig Depot served as the hub of activity for the transportation of livestock, coal, supplies, and people to and from an isolated area. The railroad depot was the...
The Depot is one of three surviving structures from a major Denver South Park and Pacific Railroad Complex. It retains the telegraph office, freight doors, ticket rooms, paint, and telegraph wires.
Believed eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, the complex lies one mile north of the historic mining town of Creede. Activity in the area began with the early silver bonanzas of the 1890s and continued into base metal production during World War II....
Columbian Elementary School was once one of Las Animas’s most distinctive historic educational buildings and an important reminder of both the community’s school history and southeastern Colorado’s regional architectural traditions. Built in 1917 to replace the...