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Daily Archives: May 19, 2017

Hearthstone Inn

Endangered Places Hearthstone Inn 506 N. Cascade Circa: 1920s Home of Judson Moss Bemis.  Alice Bemis, born in 1877 in Massachusetts, married Frederick Taylor in 1903 and they began a life of philanthropy that benefited Colorado then, as well as today. Before her death in 1941, Alice bequeathed $400,000 to Colorado College in Colorado…

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Heller Estate

Endangered Places Heller Estate Eagle Rock Road Circa: 1930s Dorothy Heller donated her 1930s-era 34 acre homestead where she and her artist husband Larry Heller lived for more than 60 years to UCCS. Frank Lloyd Wright remarked that it was the finest thing he saw in our city.  Home restored with grant funds from…

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Historic Medians

Endangered Places Historic Medians Endangered Places Wood, Cascade, Nevada, Wahsatch, Willamette, Platte, & Kiowa Avenues Circa: 1905 Wood, Cascade, Nevada, Wahsatch, Willamette, Platte, & Kiowa Avenues Circa: 1905 Anyone who drives to or through downtown Colorado Springs is familiar with our historic medians and side parking strips. They are an integral part of the…

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Ida M. Rice House

Endangered Places Ida M. Rice House 1196 N. Cascade Ave. Circa: 1927 The Rice House is one of the finest examples of Colonial Revival design in Colorado Springs. The style is reflected in the rectangular massing, symmetrical facade, side-gabled roof, vertically aligned windows, and a central front door accentuated with sidelights, columns and an…

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Manitou Bathhouse

Endangered Places Manitou Bathhouse Manitou Springs Circa: 1920s Manitou Bathhouse or Manitou Spa is a historic building located along Fountain Creek in Manitou Springs, Colorado. Once used as a mineral water bathhouse or spa, the building now used for stores and other businesses on the first floor. It is on the National Register of…

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Maytag Aircraft Building

Endangered Places Maytag Aircraft Building 701 S. Cascade Circa: 1950s The Maytag Aircraft Building is significant as an exceptional example of Modern architecture in Colorado Springs. Contributing features include its folded plate roof, cantilevered walls, stacked, glazed brick wall cladding, tinted windows and use of an exterior courtyard as an integral part of…

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Midland Roundhouse

Endangered Places Midland Roundhouse 600 S. 21st Street Circa: 1900 Former Midland Roundhouse is currently home of oldest continuously operating art pottery in the United State, Van Briggle Pottery. Threatened by possible expansion of Highway 24, it was recently sold. Endangered Places Midland Roundhouse 600 S. 21st Street Circa: 1900 Former Midland Roundhouse…

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Monument Valley Park

Endangered Places Monument Valley Park Downtown Colorado Springs Circa: 1904 This two-mile long ribbon of public park land green is the most significant component of the many open spaces donated by city founder William Jackson Palmer. He envisioned its creation, acquired the land, provided  direction for its development, and paid the immense cost of…

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Stone Walls in MVP

Endangered Places Stone Walls in Monument Valley Park Monument Valley Park Circa: 1903 The Stone Walls date from two periods—the original construction of the wall from 1903-1907 and the later restoration following the 1935 flood. General lack of maintenance and unfortunate, inappropriate repairs. Endangered Places Stone Walls in Monument Valley Park Monument Valley Park…

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Navajo Hogan’s Roadhouse

Endangered Places Navajo Hogan’s Roadhouse 2817 N. Nevada Avenue Circa: 1935 Important representative of automobile culture in the era when Nevada was the main to Denver. On the National Register of Historic Places. Endangered Places Navajo Hogan’s Roadhouse 2817 N. Nevada Avenue Circa: 1935 Important representative of automobile culture in the era…

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