Endangered Places
Fire Station No. 1
27 S. Weber
Circa: 1925
Colorado Springs Fire Station #1 was designed by Thomas MacLaren .
This building is associated with the history of municipal services in Colorado Springs, having been erected as the central fire station in 1925.
It continues in that function today. The building was…
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Gardiner TB Hut
Cascade Ave .& Jackson Ave.
Circa: 1900s
The Gardiner TB Hut is presently located at Penrose Hospital, corner of Cascade and Jackson.
Gardiner TB huts once dominated the landscape at Nordrach Ranch Sanatorium and at Woodmen Sanatorium.
Sadly, very few remain today.
Fortunately the Penrose-St. Francis Foundation enabled the…
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May
Endangered Places
Grey Rose Buillding
24 N. Tejon Street
Circa: 1880s
The Grey Rose Building was constructed prior to 1883 and housed a succession of businesses until 1938, when the Gray Rose era began.
In that year, a new storefront of Vitrolite and glass brick was installed for the Gray Rose Beauty Shop.
In 1947,…
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May
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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
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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
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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…