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National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) Historical Markers
This is a collection of buildings and places listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) that is administered by the U.S. Department of the Interior. This series showcases America’s notable historical and archeological resources.
General Jos. H. Maupin (1856-1929) was responsible for construction of this building — done in two phases from 1903-1907. His name is inscribed at the northeast corner along with another inscription just above — “The Post Office Block.” The Post . . . — — Map (db m281697) HM
Raynolds-McGee Block (1883) Construction of this two-story Gothic Revival building was completed in 1883. Frederick A. Raynolds owned the east half which housed the Fremont County Bank. William B. McGee owned the west half, occupied . . . — — Map (db m281698) HM
Robison Mansion Built c. 1884 has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m294000) HM
Homestead, ranch, stagecoach stop, post office, hotel, Jesuit retreat, museum Placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior June 9, 1988 — — Map (db m288200) HM
Cozens Ranch Museum Welcome to historic Grand County, known by early explorers as Middle Park. Connect with history by visiting the Heritage Coalition's many historic and cultural sites - from the top of Berthoud Pass, west along Highway 40 to . . . — — Map (db m288193) HM
Lake City is to have an opera house! Those exciting words echoed up and down Silver Street in June, 1883, when it was announced that a select group of Lake City businessmen and capitalists had formed the Lake City Building Association with . . . — — Map (db m292091) HM
In September, 1875, members of the Masonic fraternity proposed the establishment of a lodge in Lake City. Twenty Masons, who felt themselves to be sufficiently permanent residents to affiliate with a local lodge, met on December 4, 1875. To provide . . . — — Map (db m292097) HM
Two of Lake City's earliest cabins were built near this location in August, 1874, by Enos Hotchkiss and John Bartholf. The men were part of a road building party which passed through the area while constructing the Saguache & San Juan Toll Road . . . — — Map (db m292188) HM
Recalling the pastorate of her father, Rev. Waller Lile Pierce, at the First Baptist Church of Lake City in 1901 and 1902, Annie Pierce McNally exclaimed, “... if the walls of that church could cry out, what a story of redemption they would tell!” . . . — — Map (db m292173) HM
“The Metropolis of San Juan,” as Lake City was already calling itself in the mid-1870's, was in the midst of a building boom when two young, college-educated men decided to open the city's first drug store in the spring of 1876. The two . . . — — Map (db m292198) HM
Both adversity and opportunity were the result of the Great Fire of 1879 which destroyed the major business district of Lake City. The fire started during the early morning hours of November 8 in a one-room saloon known as "Billy's Place" on Third . . . — — Map (db m292185) HM
After being acquired for public offices in 2000, succeeding layers of stucco and clapboard siding were removed from the exterior of the historic Hughes cabin to reveal hand-hewn log beams of the original small, one-room structure which is now . . . — — Map (db m292099) HM
Writing in 1937, Lake City newspaper editor William C. Blair observed that the San Juan region had “contributed its share of tragedy, romance and pathos to the history which records the incidents of all mining discovery and development, but in . . . — — Map (db m292290) HM
Lake City was just beginning to boom when the Rev. Alexander Darley arrived from Del Norte, Colorado Territory, in June of 1876. Within a few weeks, Darley gathered the signatures necessary to charter a congregation, making Lake City's Presbyterian . . . — — Map (db m292199) HM
St. James Episcopal Chapel occupies one of Lake City's oldest surviving frame structures, a carpenter shop with vertical board and bat siding which was built in 1875 by a building and contracting firm owned by H.E. Turner and J.B. Lyons. Turner & . . . — — Map (db m292196) HM
Western Colorado's first banking house, the Hinsdale County Bank, opened in Lake City in June of 1876. The bank was a branch of the First National Bank of Colorado Springs and boasted prominent banker H.A. McIntire as president and H.J. Alexander . . . — — Map (db m292157) HM
The Hinsdale County Courthouse is a two-story, front-gabled frame building that was built in Italianate style and completed in June of 1877. It is Colorado's oldest courthouse which continues to function as a courthouse and is a rare surviving . . . — — Map (db m292100) HM
The Colorado State Forest Management Complex has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior January 2017 — — Map (db m293600) HM
The three-story building, center left, was Durango’s skyscraper, the Newman Building. It had the only elevator in the whole region. Built by Charles Newman, an early Durango druggist and politician, the structure indicated Durangoans had a great . . . — — Map (db m267896) HM
“Durango has electric lights for her workers, an advantage to the city’s conveniences which is far more than pleasing.” ~Durango Herald, 1888 The first electric power plant, the Durango Light Company, produced Direct Current (DC) . . . — — Map (db m267898) HM
Every community wished to have an outstanding hotel. The Strater, opening in 1888, provided that facility. The horse drawn trolley, coming up Main Avenue, operated from 1891 to 1893. It ran from the depot, north to the Main Avenue Bridge. The . . . — — Map (db m267890) HM
Listed in The National Register of Historic Places in Recognition of its Contribution to Durango’s Main Avenue Historic District — — Map (db m267982) HM
Under Fr. Henry Robinson’s initiative, the building of this lovely church was begun in 1879. The first mass was celebrated on January 1, 1880, before construction was finished. — — Map (db m289860) HM
[English] Leadville City Hall was built in 1905 as a federal building, it was used as the US Post Office until 1973. As the story goes, the postmaster used the small attic windows to spy on his employees as they . . . — — Map (db m289799) HM
Has been designated a National Historic Landmark This building possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the State of Colorado. In the early 1880’s when the Leadville Hotel Company came up short-funded for . . . — — Map (db m289883) HM
Horace Tabor’s Opera House was considered to be one of the finest west of the Mississippi. It opened to the public on November 20, 1879. — — Map (db m282899) HM
“The 39 years we owned and operated Arrowhead Lodge brought us hundreds of lifetime friendships and experiences in community development that we will cherish forever.” — Stanley R. Case The Arrowhead Visitor Center is at the site of the . . . — — Map (db m281001) HM
Established in 1973, this National Historic District encompasses about 40 irregularly shaped city blocks in the Heart of Trinidad. The first log cabins and adobe houses were built here in 1861. Most of the existing buildings were constructed . . . — — Map (db m282383) HM
One of the oldest churches in Colorado, and the first of the Protestant faith to be established in this community, was founded by E. J. Rice, pioneer Methodist preacher from Kansas, in October of 1869. The first edifice was erected on what is now . . . — — Map (db m280700) HM
The entire block across Main Street from you is the Trinidad History Museum, a complex of three museums and historic gardens overlooking the Mountain Route of the Santa Fe Trail. The Baca House, on the right, was built in 1870 by John Hough, a . . . — — Map (db m282400) HM
Restored by Charlie Mitchell 1998 In grateful recognition for outstanding effort and dedication to this restoration project Architect, Michael Bell, Durango • Bldg. Preparation, Shane Jarboe, Mancos • Bldg. Preparation, Daniel Towne, Mancos . . . — — Map (db m289196) HM
Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the History of the United States. . . . — — Map (db m283800) HM
Has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior First City Superintendent: George Cox — — Map (db m289400) HM
Imagine being an early pioneer here and building a cabin on the main trail through town. You are fascinated by the passing bands of Ute Indians, and admire the cascading falls, and magnificent amphitheatre high above you to the east. Uncompahgre . . . — — Map (db m294690) HM
Picture yourself walking along the east side of Main Street between 6th and 7th Avenues during Ouray’s early times. You will meet some of Ouray's important businessmen. These men — Otto Mears, David Day, and Dr. William Rowan — were also colorful . . . — — Map (db m294939) HM
Illustrated here are two early periods of structural development across Main Street from this location. There were only four buildings occupying four of the twelve lots on the block, circa 1880-1883. The one-story building at 515 Main is thought to . . . — — Map (db m294812) HM
Looking across Main Street at part of the notorious “red light district,” called the Vanoli Block, try to visualize how it looked and hear how it sounded in the late 1890s and early 1900s. On the alley at the back of lots 23 and 24 was freighter . . . — — Map (db m294983) HM
Substantial brick buildings replaced wooden structures on this block by the 1890s. Louis King's two-story wagon and carriage shop dominated the south end when a wooden structure in the 1880s and as a brick beauty in the '90s. James Pierson's . . . — — Map (db m294976) HM
Presented to the City of Ouray in 1900 A.D. by Thos. F. Walsh, original owner of the Camp Bird Mine. The bell hung in the City Hall bell tower until 1950, when it was cracked by fire. — — Map (db m294499) HM
This historic little frame church, in the heart of the Rockies and 10,000 feet above sea level, was built under great handicaps and difficulties, by Dr. Sheldon Jackson, famous missionary, lecturer, and explorer, in 1874 — while Colorado was still . . . — — Map (db m283398) HM
Pike’s Tower is dedicated to the explorer, Brigadier General Zebulon Pike, for whom Pike’s Peak was named. He camped at this site on November 13, 1806 with his expedition group while heading west across Colorado. He was a U.S. Army officer who led . . . — — Map (db m289663) HM
Edward Home owned this property in 1879. In 1881, Daniel Kelly sold the property to C. A. Dimmick for $7,500. A year later, Dimmick sold the property to Andrew McGovern for $8,000.
In 1889, the Sanborn Insurance Maps listed four businesses . . . — — Map (db m281671) HM
Originally established as Marshalltown in 1880, the little narrow-gauge railroad town was renamed in 1882 after Local Rancher, Postmaster and Merchant, Joseph Sargent. By 1881 Sargents had become the site of a D&RGW helper station. Many helper . . . — — Map (db m281900) HM
The Architecture and the Architect The Miner's Union Hospital Building was completed in 1908 at a cost of approximately $35,000. The building is of great importance to Silverton's architectural heritage, designated as a contributing structure . . . — — Map (db m283000) HM
In June 1906, San Juan County commissioned the design and construction of its courthouse, selecting architect James Murdoch to develop the plans. The foundation was completed by David Ramsay of Durango, Colorado, in August 1906, and in February . . . — — Map (db m282876) HM
In the fall of 1887, work on the San Miguel County Courthouse was completed. This was just nine months after the original courthouse, located on the southeast corner of Fir and Colorado burned to the ground on January 13, 1887. The bricks from the . . . — — Map (db m283094) HM
Telluride's grand New Sheridan Hotel and bar was built in 1897 by Brickson and Kippler. The hotel was famous for its elaborate decor and gourmet cuisine. The original hotel had only two floors and a west side annex. In 1899 a third floor was added. . . . — — Map (db m282995) HM
The New Sheridan Hotel figured prominently in the life and times of early Telluride. In 1903, William Jennings Bryan, while running for President, gave his “Cross of Gold” speech in front of the hotel. The building withstood the fire of . . . — — Map (db m292698) HM
Built before 1886, this is one of Telluride's oldest commercial buildings, and one of eight structures in Town that has a conventional false front. This building is significant because it is a standing example of Telluride's early boomtown . . . — — Map (db m292699) HM
Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the History of the United States. . . . — — Map (db m283206) HM
In 1904, this building housed the Tomboy Gold Mine's company office, and was reportedly later used as the law offices of Congressman Herschel Hogg. In the early 1900's, the Western Colorado Company became the San Miguel Power Association. SMPA used . . . — — Map (db m292886) HM
Listed on National Register of Historic Places. The only building in the Historic Park located on its original site, this structure was first built as the Swanson Saloon and features a rock-walled wine cellar. After a year of business, the saloon . . . — — Map (db m288700) HM
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Founded 1670 . . . — — Map (db m230421) HM
