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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...
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...
Grand Junction Depot is one of western Colorado’s most significant railroad landmarks and a powerful reminder of the role rail transportation played in shaping the growth of Grand Junction and the Grand Valley. Grand Junction was established in 1881, and just one year...
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...