Burro Canyon Bridge is a 1936 steel multiplate arch culvert with Rustic stonework carrying SH 12 over Burro Canyon in Las Animas County, Colorado. Listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1985, it is one of the preservation-priority bridges featured in Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Historic Bridges of Colorado listing.
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Zaracillo Canyon Bridge
Zaracillo Canyon Bridge is a 1936 concrete slab and girder bridge carrying SH 12 over Zaracillo Canyon in Las Animas County, Colorado. Determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, it is one of the preservation-priority bridges featured in Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Historic Bridges of Colorado listing.
Purgatoire River Bridge
Purgatoire River Bridge is a 1938 concrete-on-I-beam bridge carrying SH 12 over the Middle Fork of the Purgatoire River in Las Animas County, Colorado. Determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, it is one of the preservation-priority bridges featured in Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Historic Bridges of Colorado listing.
Ordway Pharmacy
In a town where grit meets good ideas, even an empty building can spark conversation and a story. For more than a century, the Ordway Pharmacy stood at the heart of Main Street, serving prescriptions, ice cream sodas, and small-town conversation. Generations of...
Bent’s Old Fort
Bent’s Old Fort stands along the Santa Fe Trail, adjacent to the Arkansas River and just east of La Junta. Situated within a National Historic Site, the current structure reconstructs the historic fort lost to time and flood. For decades, Bent’s Old Fort has anchored...
Newman Block
Newman Block in Granada is an important reminder of the connections between the town of Granada and Amache, the World War II incarceration site in southeastern Colorado where Japanese Americans were forcibly removed and confined. On February 19, 1942, President...
Temple Aaron
Temple Aaron is the oldest continually operating Jewish Synagoue in Colorado and the mountain west. Today she is home to a resurgence of interest and open for a variety of cultural and religious events.
Temple Aaron
Location Trinidad, CO Date of Construction 1889 History Located in the El Corazon de Trinidad National Historic District, Temple Aaron is a prominent visual landmark in Trinidad and is the oldest synagogue building in continuous operation in Colorado. Designed by...
