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18 Porch Notes tagged “national-register,” from counties across Colorado.
History and culture - Arapahoe County
Littleton's Main Street is a Victorian downtown you can walk in an afternoon
Littleton's Main Street Historic District packs brick storefronts, a 1920 town hall turned theater, and seasonal festivals into a few walkable blocks on the National Register.
Read note ->History and culture - Summit County
Breckenridge's Main Street sits inside a historic district
The heart of Breckenridge is a listed historic district of late-1800s and early-1900s mining-town buildings, which is why its Main Street looks the way it does.
Read note ->History and culture - Hinsdale County
Much of downtown Lake City is a listed historic district
Lake City's downtown is a National Register historic district with dozens of original mining-era buildings, many rebuilt in brick and stone after an 1879 fire.
Read note ->History and culture - Adams County
Bromley Farm in Brighton: a Japanese American family's farm you can walk
A preserved Brighton farm carries two stories at once, and a fall festival lets families walk the same ground its Japanese American owners worked for sixty years.
Read note ->History and culture - Custer County
Beckwith Ranch: the red-roofed Victorian on Highway 69
A white-clapboard Victorian ranch house with bright red roofs sits just northwest of Westcliffe, a National Register landmark that volunteers open for tours each summer.
Read note ->History and culture - Morgan County
Fort Morgan's Rainbow Arch Bridge has stood over the South Platte for a century
Fort Morgan's Rainbow Arch Bridge is a National Register-listed bridge over the South Platte River with a long local history.
Read note ->History and culture - Ouray County
Ouray's Main Street is a listed historic district
Much of downtown Ouray is the Ouray Historic District, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, with late-1800s buildings like the county courthouse and Wright's Opera House.
Read note ->History and culture - Park County
Como exists because of a narrow-gauge railroad, and its stone roundhouse still stands
Como was a junction town on the Denver, South Park and Pacific narrow-gauge railroad, and its 1880s stone roundhouse, depot, and hotel complex are listed on the National Register.
Read note ->History and culture - Larimer County
Old Town Fort Collins is a listed historic district, not just a name
The Old Town district at the heart of Fort Collins is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and it is the city's own historic preservation review that keeps its old brick storefronts looking the way they do.
Read note ->History and culture - Crowley County
Crowley County keeps its story in a 1914 schoolhouse
The Crowley County Heritage Center fills a 1914 brick schoolhouse with the county's newspapers, farm records, and local artifacts, and it doubles as the town hall and a community gathering place.
Read note ->History and culture - Phillips County
Holyoke's courthouse is a New Deal landmark you can walk right up to
The 1935 Phillips County Courthouse in Holyoke is a Moderne-style Public Works Administration building on the National Register, and the only surviving PWA project in the county.
Read note ->History and culture - Lincoln County
Hugo's WPA Pool: A 1930s Public Work You Can Still Swim In
Hugo's municipal pool and its adobe Art Moderne bathhouse were built by Depression-era WPA crews and still open as the town pool in summer.
Read note ->History and culture - Ouray County
The Beaumont Hotel is one of Ouray's landmark 1880s buildings
The Beaumont Hotel, built in the 1880s during Ouray's mining boom and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is one of the town's most recognizable historic buildings.
Read note ->History and culture - Fremont County
Downtown Florence is a listed historic district built on coal, oil, and smelting
The Downtown Florence Historic District preserves the commercial main street of a town that boomed on coal, oil, and smelting, and the Florence Pioneer Museum sits in one of its sandstone buildings.
Read note ->History and culture - Rio Grande County
Monte Vista's downtown is a recognized historic district
The heart of Monte Vista is a listed historic district, which means its older downtown buildings carry recognition that can affect how they are changed.
Read note ->History and culture - Alamosa County
The old Rio Grande depot in Alamosa, and what it is now
The historic Denver & Rio Grande Railroad depot on State Street in Alamosa, rebuilt after a 1907 fire and listed on the National Register, today houses the Colorado Welcome Center.
Read note ->History and culture - Logan County
The 1910 Logan County Courthouse and its Carara paintings reward a downtown stop
Sterling's domed 1910 courthouse is a free, walkable downtown landmark with a restored marble-and-oak rotunda and ten Eugene Carara paintings of northeastern Colorado history.
Read note ->History and culture - Montrose County
Montrose's old railroad depot is now the county history museum
The Montrose County Historical Museum is housed in the historic Denver & Rio Grande depot in Montrose, a Mission Revival building on the National Register that tells the valley's settlement and railroad story.
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