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Several of the buildings that anchor the 4th Street Business District date to the town’s incorporation date of 1874. Serving as the trade and business center for much of the historic San Luis Valley, Saguache represents both in history and in architectural...
The Garcia School was one of 11 initial adobe schools built in Costilla County before consolidation in 1963 and is one of the last structurally sound adobe buildings in the area known as the Plaza de los Manzanares, dating back to 1849. The perfectly square building...
The Georgetown School was built in 1874 and is believed to be one of Colorado’s oldest extant brick schoolhouse buildings. The structure is located within the Georgetown and Silver Plume National Historic Landmark District and was nominated to the Endangered Places...
The Luigi Gianella Building, also known as the Aguilar State Bank building, represents the success of a southern Colorado community and its mostly European immigrants to control their own affairs, outside the paternalistic company town model of the time. Aguilar is...
Located within the original square mile platted by Grand Junction’s founder, George A. Crawford, Handy Chapel was built in 1892 on land deeded to the “black citizens of Grand Junction” in 1883. The intervening nine years were required to undertake a...
The Emma Store is one of the most important surviving historic commercial resources in the Roaring Fork Valley and a rare reminder of the once-thriving town of Emma. Located along Highway 82 between Basalt and Aspen, the brick store buildings stand as visible...
After relocating from Wyoming, the family of Samuel and Sarah Shaffer settled on 35 acres of land along Elk Creek, where the stagecoach route crossed, about 35 miles southwest of Denver. At what became known as Shaffer’s Crossing, four of Samuel Shaffer’s...
The East Portal Camp Cabins, constructed between 1922 and 1923 at the eastern entrance to the Moffat Tunnel in Gilpin County, represent the last intact remnants of a purpose-built industrial community created to support one of the most consequential transportation...
Doyle Settlement is one of the most important surviving early settlement sites in southern Colorado and a rare place where the region’s multicultural pioneer history can still be read in the landscape. Established in 1859 by Joseph Bainbridge Lafayette Doyle after he...