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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...
Once an important site for processing precious metals from mines in Park County’s Buckskin Gulch, the Paris Mill is now abandoned, despite the fact that the nearby Sweet Home Mine is currently producing rhodochrosite, a rose- colored gemstone and the official Colorado...
The early town of Calcium was booming in 1888 with a post office, a boarding house, a store, two saloons, and many log houses. In the same year, the Calcium Limestone Company formed and built several limestone kilns. Shortly thereafter, the town of Thomasville grew...
The Leadville Mining District is an architectural testament to the silver boom in Colorado. It is arguably one of the most important cultural landscapes that remains from Colorado’s frontier mining days. The Leadville Mining District includes four stages of...
Koch Homestead is one of the most important surviving historic resource clusters in the Hunter Creek Valley near Aspen. Set within a beautiful high-country landscape now managed as part of the White River National Forest, the homestead reflects the earliest period of...
Colorado Preservation, Inc listed Inter-Laken as one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places in 2001 due to the poor condition of the buildings, which were boarded up and inaccessible to visitors. The extreme weather conditions combined with lack of regular...
This homestead ranch has been continuously owned and operated by the Hutchinson family since its establishment in 1868 by John Hutchinson, a Union Army Captain who also served as a representative in the territorial legislature. One of the oldest cattle ranches in the...
Numerous communities abutting, sometimes straddling I-70 in the Clear Creek Valley from Idaho Springs to Graymont, attest to the 19th and early 20th century history of mineral, milling, timber, and railroad industries in Colorado. Idaho Springs has been designated a...