I.O.O.F. No. 125
29 Tuesday Apr 2025
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Tag Archives: Colorado
De Beque, Colorado
29 Tuesday Apr 2025
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Idaho Springs Carnegie Library
11 Tuesday Mar 2025
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Idaho Springs Carnegie Library
Early in 1903 a group of citizens approached Andrew Carnegie with a request to support the construction of a public library in Idaho Springs. Mr. Carnegie required that the land must be donated, the city must provide funds to operate the library and supply a set of plans for his approval. The conditions were met and Mr. Carnegie donated over $10,000 for the construction. Construction was completed in 1904 and the building, almost unchanged as you see it, was dedicated and opened. The main, upper, floor is original. The door to the lower level was added sometime after 1904. For a number of years the Idaho Springs City Hall was housed in the lower level. After City Hall moved in 1986 the lower level was refurbished to provide additional space and a ramp was installed. It is an example of Colonial Revival style of architecture and one of the earliest remaining Carnegie funded libraries existing in Colorado.
219 14th Avenue in Idaho Springs, Colorado
Virginia Dale
27 Thursday Feb 2025
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This memorial is the property of the State of Colorado
Three-quarters of a mile northwest from this point is the original
Virginia Dale
famous stage station on the Overland Route to California, 1862-1867.
Established by Joseph A. (Jack) Slade and named for his wife, Virginia.
Located on Cherokee Trail of 1849.
Favorite camp ground for emigrants.
Vice President of Colfax and party were detained here by Indian raids in 1865.
Robert J. Spotswood replaced Slade.
Idaho Springs Elks Lodge
09 Sunday Feb 2025
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Idaho Springs Elks Lodge B.P.O.E. #607
Organized July 7, 1900
Erected AD 1907
Rededicated June 14, 2008
1600 Colorado Boulevard Idaho Springs, Colorado
Methodist Church
28 Tuesday Jan 2025
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Brick American Gothic Revival Ecclesiastical, Chapels, Colorado, Historic Churches, Idaho Springs, Methodist, NRHP
Methodist Church
This building is the only remaining example of Brick American Gothic Revival Ecclesiastical Architecture in Idaho Springs. It is one of three remaining buildings the Rocky Mountain Methodist Conference considers historical in the state’s mining towns.
Construction began on the church July 1880 when William H. Morton deeded three lots on Colorado and Third St. (now 15th Avenue). The building was completed and occupied on January 16, 1881 and its first Pastor was Rev. J. F. White. Dedication by Dr. Moore of Denver University was delayed until October 30, 1881. The building measured 52′ by 32′ and its brick walls a foot thick. It was well lighted with Gothic windows, ornamented with stained glass and contained two eight light chandeliers. Capacity was 220 and cost approx $4,000. The architect was henry Choate.
In 1905 the building was enlarged with the addition of a Sunday School room, a bell tower, bell and steeple. Also at this time the pulpit and choir loft were relocated. A partial second floor in the Sunday School room was added in 1965. This building was designated a National Historical site on March 5, 1998.
The facility was used continuously until 1990. As a result of many monetary and physical contributions, intensive renovation began in 2001; it was reopened as the United Center February 8, 2003.
1440 Colorado Boulevard Idaho Springs, Colorado
Idaho Springs, Colorado
25 Sunday Aug 2024
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Idaho Springs, Colorado
Sites on Miner Street:
- 1402 Miner St – The Queen Hotel
- 1405-1419 Miner St – The Placer Inn
- 1416 Miner St – The Underhill Museum
- 1424 Miner St – Ford’s Grocery
- 1427 Miner St – The Yingling-Berry Building
- 1428 Miner St – The Horn Block
- 1430 Miner St – The Elliott Building
- 1434 Miner St – The Donnelly Block
- 1435 Miner St – The Hanchett Building
- 1437 Miner St
- 1441 Miner St
- ~1442 Miner St
- 1446 Miner St
- 1447 Miner St – The Turner Building
- 1501 Miner St – Miners and Merchants Bank
- 1506 Miner St – Brunswick Flat
- 1515 Miner St – The Mead and Cooper Building
- 1516 Miner St – The Zeller Building
- 1518 Miner St – The Plummer Building
- 1519 Miner St
- 1520 Miner St
- 1517-1523 Miner St – Mining Exchange Building
- 1524 Miner St
- 1527 Miner St
- 1534 Miner St
- 1535 Miner St – Idaho Springs Opera House
- 1536 Miner St
- 1546 Miner St – First National Bank
- 1600 Miner St
- 1601 Miner St
- 1611 Miner St
- 1612 Miner St
- 1617 Miner St – Normandeau/Rohner Building
- 1620 Miner St
- 1625 Miner St – The Hutchinson Building
- 1628 Miner St
- 1630 Miner St – The Erickson Building
- 1631 Miner St – Shields-Cooper Building
- 1633 Miner St
- 1634-36 Miner St – The Faivre Building
- 1640 Miner St – Machine Shop
- 1641 Miner St
- 1711 Miner St – Grass Valley School House
- 1714 Miner St – J. H. Warner House
- 1336 Colorado Boulevard – Church of Saint John
- 1401 Colorado Boulevard
- 1410 Colorado Boulevard – United Church of Idaho Springs
- 1413 Colorado Blvd
- 1419 Colorado Blvd
- 1422 Colorado Blvd
- 1425 Colorado Blvd
- 1430 Colorado Blvd
- 1435 Colorado Blvd
- 1440 Colorado Blvd – Methodist Church
- 1443 Colorado Blvd
- 1500 Colorado Blvd
- 1505 Colorado Blvd
- 1520 Colorado Blvd
- 1521 Colorado Blvd
- 1526 Colorado Blvd
- 1531 Colorado Blvd
- 1600 Colorado Blvd – Idaho Springs Elks Lodge
- 1601 Colorado Blvd
- 1613 Colorado Blvd
- 1617 Colorado Blvd
- 1625 Colorado Blvd
- 1629 Colorado Blvd
- 1632 Colorado Blvd
- 1635 Colorado Blvd
- 1639 Colorado Blvd
Colorado, Utah, Wyoming Corner
24 Thursday Mar 2022
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A Tri-State Marker at the corner of the state boundaries for Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.
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There is a sign on site that reads:
Public Land Survey Monument
Tri-State corner of Wyoming, Utah and Colorado
Lat. 41° 00′ 42.616″ N Long. 109° 02′ 42.158″ W. Elevation 8402′
This point was monumented by U.S. surveyor, Rollin J. Reeves, on July 19, 1879, while completing the survey of the western boundary of the State of Colorado and the east boundary of Utah Territory. The boundary line separating Wyoming Territory from Colorado and Utah Territories was surveyed by U.S. surveyor, A.V. Richards in 1873. The original monument was found to be disturbed in 1931 and was remarked by U.S. Cadastral Engineer, E.V. Kimmel, with a brass tablet seated in a concrete monument. This monument is one of the corners of the national Rectangular Cadastral Survey System, inaugurated in 1785, that has aided the development and orderly settlement of the public lands in the western states. From these monuments, state and local governments and private citizens are provided with easily identifiable boundaries. Such monuments serve as a base for the work of private surveyors in making accurate land subdivisions and descriptions.
This historical tri-state monument was erected by the Kiwanis Club and Boy Scout Troop 166 of Craig, Colorado in cooperation with the Bureau of Land Management dedicated on September 18, 1999.
Fruita, Colorado
06 Wednesday Dec 2017
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Independence Pass
25 Sunday Dec 2016
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Independence Pass, originally known as Hunter Pass, is a high mountain pass in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. It is at elevation 12,095 ft on the Continental Divide in the Sawatch Range. The pass is midway between Aspen and Twin Lakes, on the border between Pitkin and Lake counties.
