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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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