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Genesee Park Interchange

The Genesee Park Interchange in Jefferson County is a 1970 continuous steel box girder bridge carrying US 40 over I-70. Known as the “Picture Bridge,” it is significant as Colorado’s first continuous steel box girder bridge and a preservation-priority historic bridge.

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Historic Bridges of Colorado

Historic Bridges of Colorado highlights 23 preservation-priority bridges identified through Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Endangered Places Program and the Colorado Department of Transportation. These bridges represent the state’s transportation history, engineering innovation, and long-term preservation planning for historic bridge resources.

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Garcia School

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...

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Feminilas Building

The Feminilas Building is located in the Culebra Valley south and east of San Luis, Colorado, and was built around 1920 as the only known building separately owned and operated by the women’s auxiliary of the SPMDTU Hispanic men’s labor organization...

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Fort Lyon

The Fort is an important part of the area’s early history and demonstrative of the opening up of the west. Fort Lyon is located along the historic Santa Fe Trail. Since 1868 the fort has been an Army outpost, Navy tuberculosis treatment center, state...

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