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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May
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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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May
Endangered Places
Historic Medians
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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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May
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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May
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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May
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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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May
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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May
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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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May
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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May
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…