The Historic Preservation Alliance

Pikes Peak Preservation Forum IV
2022-05-06 09:00 - 13:00 (America/Denver)

2nd session: Hidden in Plain Sight – Historic Art & Architectural Marvels of the Pikes Peak Region
2022-03-17 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Presented by Chuck Benson
NOTE: This event is currently scheduled to be presented LIVE at the historic Peel House, first floor, 1515 N. Cascade – SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Masks required. A pre-lecture self-guided tour of the award-winning Peel House is invited – and encouraged!
Advance Registration is required by clicking below.
About this lecture: Presenter Chuck Benson will follow on with an examination of the important and noteworthy architectural icons of the Pikes Peak Region to include religious, academic, commercial, and residential works of note. Many of these buildings are alive and well, but some have been sadly demolished over the years. All have defined the architectural fabric of the Pikes Peak Region!
Dave Alvarez and Chuck Benson have been talking to interested audiences on Art & Architectural historical & contemporary topics for many years here in town. They have both presented in recent times at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, and the Pillar Institute for Learning. Both of them thoroughly enjoy making Art & Architecture come alive!
Check-in begins at 5:45 with a tour of The Peel House at 6, followed by the lecture at 6:30.

1st Session: Hidden in Plain Sight – Historic Art & Architectural Marvels of the Pikes Peak Region
2022-02-17 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
Presented by Dave Alvarez
NOTE: This event is currently scheduled to be presented LIVE at the historic Peel House, first floor, 1515 N. Cascade – SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Advance registration is required by clicking below.
About this lecture: Presenter Dave Alvarez will take us on a journey through the significant artists and art movements that worked in and around Colorado Springs, some of who associated themselves with the historic Broadmoor Art Academy and the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Many of these personalities you may know, but some may be a surprise to you!
Check-in begins at 5:45 with a tour of The Peel House at 6:00, followed by the lecture at 6:30.

Historic Preservation Alliance 2022 Annual Meeting
2022-01-20 18:30 - 20:00 (America/Denver)
Message from Tim Boddington – HPA Board President:
We regret to announce that our plans to hold an in-person Annual Meeting on January 20th at 6:30 p.m. have reverted back to VIRTUAL due to COVID cases rapidly escalating throughout our community and nationally. The Omicron variant has decimated the community and we are unwilling to place our loyal membership at risk with a live meeting. Therefore, we will hold our 2022 Annual Meeting virtually via Zoom. Please reserve your place below by clicking the link and providing your name and email. The Zoom link will be emailed to you approximately 24 hours prior to the event, along with the meeting agenda and my remarks to the membership.
Good news: as of January 6th, we are planning to be live with our Winter Lectures (February 17 and March 17) at the historic award-winning Peel House at 1515 N. Cascade – SUBJECT TO CHANGE. Please visit our Events page for more details, and register for both. In-person space is limited; virtual space is not! Either way, you will need to register by clicking on the link and providing your name and email address.
Please know that these live vs. virtual meeting decisions are being made with the health and safety of all our members, the Board and staff of our host, First Lutheran Church. Stay tuned for additional details that will get us all on the same page.
Wishing everyone a safe existence at this ominous time.
Stay well,
Tim

Lamplighters Neighborhood Discussion
2022-01-16 15:00 - 17:00 (America/Denver)
ONEN and the North End Lamplighters are in discussion with the City of Colorado Springs and the Colorado Springs Utilities Department to refurbish the removed lampposts and have them returned to their historic locations.
A neighborhood Zoom meeting has been scheduled for Sunday, January 16th at 3 PM. This is an opportunity to hear updates, share your ideas and ask questions.

REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED! Summer Tours Series - #7 Pikeview Quarry BBQ
2021-08-26 17:30 - 18:30 (America/Denver)
Please note, only one guest per ticket request submission.
BBQ dinner at 5:30 PM (pre-register for both @ www.hpasprings.org/events). Please bring your own lawn chair. No charge for the dinner, which is optional. The quarry needs an accurate number for ordering food. Register online separately for the tour. Check-in begins at 6:00 for a maximum of 60 on the tour.
Directions/ Parking: Northwest Colorado Springs, Rockrimmon area. Go north on Centennial Boulevard past Vindicator Drive to the 4-way stop at Allegheny Drive and turn left. Follow Allegheny until you come to Pikeview Quarry Road. Bear to your left and proceed onto quarry land. Parking assistance will be provided from there.
The Pikeview Quarry opened in 1905 and has provided limestone for numerous downtown buildings, the Air Force Academy and I-25 along with providing gravel and concrete for local construction. We will learn about its history and its important role as a fire break during the Waldo Canyon fire in 2012. Reclamation plans are underway to develop it into a world class bike park and to turn over to the city.
Our attire for the evening should be long pants, long sleeves, and sturdy closed-toe shoes or hiking boots. Hiking poles are also suggested. Bring water and expect wind and dust.
For those who are interested, there will be ATVs to take people on a 30-minute loop ride through the quarry. The views of the city are beautiful from any vantage point. We may get lucky and see some of the herd of 65 bighorn sheep who live up at the top of the quarry.
Tour Guide: Jerry Schnabel (there may be a few others, TBD)
HPA Coordinator: Carol Beans Disabled Access: All areas may not be accessible.
Restrooms: Available at the Scale House

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED - #6 Art on the Streets 4:30 Tour!
2021-08-19 16:30 - 17:30 (America/Denver)
Please note, only one guest per ticket request submission.
The ever-popular Art on the Streets program is sponsored by The Downtown Partnership. This is a year-long exhibit of outdoor sculpture and murals, displayed in strategic locations throughout downtown Colorado Springs. Involving both local artists and those from far beyond our city limits, this program has become one of the most successful art shows in the region, celebrating the power of art in the public. Art on the Streets provides a city-wide identity, it enhances the prestige and beauty of our downtown, it certainly enlivens our visual image, it provides a means for cultural expression, it fosters dialogue and it contributes to our quality of life. We will visit numerous past and present competition winners in a relaxed, easy stroll. By all means bring your cameras.
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LOCATION HAS CHANGED – Vennetucci Statue on the north side of the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum grounds.
Directions/ Parking: Easy Parking at the City parking garage @ Nevada and Colorado (or metered on-street parking) Tours will take 75-90 minutes each.
Make it a fun dining-out night downtown and discover many new restaurants on Tejon.
Tour Guides: Susan Edmondson
HPA Coordinator: Roxanne Eflin
Registration begins at: 4:00 and 6:00 p.m.
Disabled Access: Extensive walking, but generally level surfaces Restrooms: No

Summer Tour Series - #5 La Foret Conference and Retreat Center
2021-08-12 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
Please note, only one guest per ticket request submission.

Directions/ Parking: 6145 Shoup Road, north of town. Take Powers north to Woodmen, go east then north on Black Forest Road to Shoup Road. Turn west for 0.72 miles to the La Foret site. Entrance is on the south side, just past Rusk Lane. Proceed up the hill to Ponderosa Lodge to register at 6:00, then a tour of the Lodge at 6:30. We will then drive the ½ mile distance for a tour of the Chapel.
The heavily forested site attracts 13,000 visitors annually from the United Church of Christ (UCC) and other churches/ religious groups, business and family retreats, receptions, weddings and team building events. It has hosted the popular Meadow Grass Music Festival for 10 years. The Ponderosa Lodge was built in 1928 as a summer home for local philanthropist Alice Bemis Taylor. The lodge, along with the Taylor Memorial Chapel (built to honor her late husband Jack Taylor, who died in 1929) were designed by noted Santa Fe architect John Gaw Meem. After Alice’s death in 1942 her Foundation deeded the property to the Colorado Congregational Church, now known as the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Church of Christ. Both the lodge and chapel are on the National Register of Historic Places. The Lodge is also on the Colorado Register of Historic Properties. A $200,000 grant by History Colorado in 2015, and a matching grant from supporters, paid for renovations to the lodge in 2017.
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Tour Guides: Larry McCulloch, Executive Director of La Foret
HPA Coordinator: Ron and Sue Harman
Registration begins at: 6:00pm
Disabled Access: Yes Restrooms: At the Lodge only

Summer Tours Series - #3 Middle Shooks Run
2021-07-29 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
Please note, only one guest per ticket request submission.
Middle Shooks Run: Walking Tour of the North Junior High School and Its Immediate Neighborhood
Directions/ Parking: On-street parking is available on both sides of East Yampa between Corona Street and El Paso Street
This will be a walk through early city history as we venture around the neighborhood that predated the 1923 North Junior High School, one of three built with proceeds of a School District 11 bond issue. A variety of housing combined with a local market displays the history of an early residential suburb of Colorado Springs. The route will include several points of historical significance.
Tour Guide: Tim Scanlon, local historian
HPA Coordinator: Al Rohr
Registration begins: 6:00pm
Disabled Access: Walk will be mostly level, no steps
Restrooms: None available

CANCELLED: Summer Tours Series - #2 Fairview Cemetery
2021-07-22 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
Urgent Event Announcement: TOUR CANCELLATION
We regret to announce that our Fairview Cemetery tour must be cancelled this year due to unforeseen circumstances. Thank you for your interest. We hope to be able to schedule a Fairview Cemetery tour next year.
-Al Rohr, Events and Lecture Chairman, HPA Board of Directors

Summer Tours Series - #1 The El Paso Canal
2021-07-15 18:30 - 19:30 (America/Denver)
Please note, only one guest per ticket request submission.
Directions/ Parking: – This tour celebrates the city’s sesquicentennial as it features its earliest use of water. Registration check in will begin at 6 PM and take place at Bristol Elementary School, 890 North Walnut Street, Colorado Springs. There will be two groups. The “hiking” group will walk up and down the moderately rough, irregular terrain of the mesa before re-joining the “walking” group. According to our guide, Horst Richardson, “In my near-Westside neighborhood close to Bristol Elementary School, the El Paso Canal continues to be a prominent feature. The canal that helped the city grow by providing water for irrigation in 1871 is still visible here and can be accessed on foot. I will provide pertinent photos and maps.”
HIKING GROUP: Horst will lead the hiking group from the school parking lot up the hill to the canal and onto the top of the mesa where once two reservoirs dating from 1878 were located for the city’s fresh water supply. After touring the reservoirs with the walking group, they will descend the mesa, look at his back yard through which the canal flowed, then walk to the neighbor’s property to join the walking group.
WALKING GROUP: This group will carpool a few blocks to the top of the mesa, tour the reservoirs, then return to the school and walk to the neighbor’s property on level ground.
BOTH GROUPS: Horst Richardson’s neighbor is restoring not only the canal’s channel but also an old flume. We will then carpool a few blocks north to the Catamount Center in Sondermann Park to trace the canal through part of the park. As counterintuitive as it seems, the gravity canal was on its way north to cross Monument Creek just south of Fillmore Street!
Participants should wear walking shoes, long pants, and bring drinking water. For hikers sturdy hiking boots and walking sticks are also recommended. The tour is not wheelchair accessible.

Colorado Springs Archaeological Resources: An Exciting Three-Year Quest of Stewardship
2021-05-26 19:00 - 20:00 (America/Denver)

Pikes Peak Preservation Forum III
2021-05-20 09:00 - 12:00 (America/Denver)
Please check back for link to the recording of this event to be posted May 26th.Introducing the Presenters for Pikes Peak Preservation Forum III
Tim Boddington is a lifelong resident of Colorado Springs, a second generation native. He is the president of the board of directors of the historic preservation alliance of Colorado Springs, who is hosting this educational event. He has served on the Boards of UCCS Gallery of Contemporary Art and El Pomar Sports Park. Tim is retired and has expertise in construction, historic window restoration and replacement and fine woodworking, his hobby.
Leah Davis Witherow is the Curator of History at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum, where she has curated over three dozen exhibits. Additionally, for the past 21 years she has taught courses at UCCS where she specializes in the history of American Women, Colorado and the West, Labor History, the Progressive Era, and Museum Studies. In 2014, she was selected as UCCS Outstanding Lecturer for the LAS Department, and was honored in 2018 by the CSBJ as a “Woman of Influence.”
Jamie Fabos has been the Chief Communications officer for the City of Colorado Springs for five years. Prior to joining the City, Jamie spent 15 years working in the sports industry, including Olympic sports, which brought her to Colorado. Jamie is a proud military spouse and mom to 9-year-old twins.
Dr. Chris Bowles, History Colorado’s Director of Preservation Incentives and Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. He is a 4th generation Coloradan with a deep love of the State’s rich prehistory and history, its people and the places that they hold dear. He holds a BA in Anthropology from CU Boulder, a Masters in Archaeology from the University of Edinburgh and a PHD in Archaeology from the University of Glasgow. For over 20 years in Scotland he worked in Cultural Resource Management and as a local authority heritage planner before returning to our state in early 2020 to work with History Colorado.
Roxanne Eflin has held leadership positions with numerous national, state, regional and local organizations and boards, and has been honored for her advocacy work in the field of historic preservation and downtown revitalization. Her private and public sector experience includes positions of Board President for the Historic Preservation Alliance of Colorado Springs, Executive Director for three statewide historic preservation organizations both in Colorado and Maine, and as consultant, public speaker and trainer, cultural tourism manager and grants reviewer. She is a consulting trainer with the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions and served on the consulting team who developed HistoricCOS, the recently adopted historic preservation master plan for the City of Colorado Springs.
Ron Sladek is a professional historian and preservation consultant, and also works in the non-profit arena as a preservation advocate. Active in the field since the late 1980s, he is the founder and principal of Tatanka Historical Associates as well as Historic Larimer County. Based in Fort Collins, Ron has completed hundreds of preservation projects involving a tremendous variety of historic resources throughout the Rocky Mountain west and remains in high demand for his consulting services. Ron worked as a consultant with me to develop HistoricCOS and is well versed in local survey work.
Patricia Doyle has lived in the Old North End Neighborhood since 1989. She chaired the neighborhood’s Overlay Zoning Committee in 1999 to 2000, when the N. E. Historic District was placed under the City’s Overlay Zoning Ordinance. She currently serves on the Old North End Neighborhood and Historic Preservation Alliance boards, has served on the City’s Historic Preservation Board, and continues as chair of the neighborhood’s Historic Preservation Committee.
Judith Rice Jones first came to CS as a CC student. Returning after grad school she was a founding member of the Historic Property Alliance, board member of Historic Preservation Alliance, and chair of the City’s first Historic Preservation Board. She lived in ONEN for decades and currently in Bon Park/Bonnyville.
Tim Scanlon earned a Master ‘s degree in Regional and City Planning Degree from the University of Oklahoma and first worked as a federal grant specialist for the City of Oklahoma City. From 1985 to 2009 he worked for the City of Colorado Springs, attaining the position of Senior Planner in the Comprehensive Planning Division. A primary responsibility was his support of the City’s historic preservation efforts, including the development of its first preservation ordinance in 1988 and the first historic preservation plan in 1993 He currently functions as a historian.

Tree planting
2021-05-14 14:00 - 15:30 (America/Denver)
The Historic Preservation Alliance of Colorado Springs in honor of National Preservation Month and the vision of our Mayor, John Suthers, to plant 18,071 trees in honor of our Sesquicentennial has arranged with the City Forester to plant a tree on the edge of Boddington Field in the Old North End on May 14, 4:00 pm. We invite you to this short ceremony and to bear witness to our planting of a sturdy Red Oak that will bring shade and color to our park for decades to come. We will take a commemorative photograph to share with everyone. No reservations required, just bring a shovel as a prop if you would like.

The Winter Retreat 2019
2021-04-09 09:30 - 2021-04-17 20:00 UTC | Location, 768 5th Ave, New York, NY, 10019, United States
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