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- Scene on Fountain Creek at Manitou
- Downstream view of Fountain Creek, or 'Fontaine qui Bouille', in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking east. Taken from the level of the streambed just upstream from the confluence with Ruxton Creek, this image affords a clear view of the footbridge...
- Fountain Creek (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Pikes Peak from Fountain Qui Bouille
- View of Pikes Peak from Fountain Creek (Fontaine qui Bouille) in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Trees and bushes are nearby.
- Fountain Creek (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Streams--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890?]
- A scene at Manitou Springs, D. & R.G.R.R.
- People stand near the Soda Spring Pavilion and a gazebo near a bridge over Fountain Creek in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows the frame Cliff House Hotel with awnings over windows, frame Victorian houses, and trees on hillsides.
- Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Soda Spring Pavilion (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gazebos--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.;...
- [between 1885 and 1889]
- Iron Springs Hotel and [?]
- View of the Iron Springs Hotel in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The multi-story frame hotel has a mansard roof, dormer windows, and a porch. Frame houses and the Ute Iron Spring Chateau with a faceted conical roof and finial are in...
- Iron Springs Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1890?]
- Manitou Springs
- View of Manitou Springs (El Paso County) Colorado; shows the Soda Spring pavilion, the Cliff House Hotel, a Colorado Springs and Interurban Railway stop, and a stone bridge across Fountain Creek.
- Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Soda Spring Pavilion (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.;...
- [between1889 and 1890?]
- Cliff House and Soda Spring
- View of Cliff House Hotel and Soda Spring Pavilion in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows buildings with conical roofs covering both the Cheyenne Spring and the Navajo Spring on Fountain Creek.
- Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Pavilions--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- 1886
- Iron Springs Hotel, Manitou
- View of the Iron Spring Company office and Iron Springs Hotel, Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The office is a two story frame structure with gambrel roof, the hotel has clipped gables, dormers, chimneys, a wrap around veranda. Shows...
- Iron Springs Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Manitou
- View of Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado, looking southwest; shows Pike's Peak and foothills. The Manitou House and Clubhouse and the Mansions Hotel and Barker House are near a bridge that crosses Fountain Creek. Shows the D. & R. G....
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1884]
- Station of the M. & P.P. Ry.
- View of large frame and rusticated stone buildings, frame house, and locomotive, passenger car and tracks of the Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway, Manitou Springs, El Paso County, Colorado.
- Manitou and Pike's Peak Railway Company--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Mountain railroads--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1882 and 1890]
- Denver Rio Grande Depot, Manitou
- View of a rusticated two story stone Rio Grande Railroad train depot in Manitou Springs (El Paso County) Colorado. Shows a maintained lawn with circular planted areas, a sprinkler system, a gardener, trees, post and steel fences, telegraph poles, a...
- Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Company--1880-1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Gardens--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Manitou...
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Cliff House Manitou Springs
- View in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north, probably from the Barker House. In the foreground is the Manitou Springs Pavilion, a cross gabled frame structure with a cupola, a rusticated knee-high stone foundation and fancy woodwork in the...
- Wheeler, Jerome--Homes & haunts.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.
- 1887 April 20
- Cliff House
- View in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north, probably from the Barker House. In the foreground is the Manitou Springs Pavilion, a cross gabled frame structure with a cupola, a rusticated knee-high stone foundation and fancy woodwork in the...
- Wheeler, Jerome--Homes & haunts.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- Yale Glee Club
- Portrait of the Yale Glee Club visiting Manitou Springs, Colorado; shows men posing on the porch at the Cliff House. Costume includes morning coats, bowler, Homburg and duster hats, winged collars and ties. One wears a striped silk cravat.
- Music--Societies, etc.--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880- 1890.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Singers--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- January, 1889
- Manitou House, Manitou, Colorado.
- Exterior view of the Manitou House Hotel in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest. Built in 1872, this three-story gable roof frame structure features chimneys, central dormers, diamond-shaped windows, and wrap-around open air porch and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bridges--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Manitou House Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1880 and 1885?]
- Iron Springs Hotel, Manitou Springs, Colorado.
- View of the second Iron Springs Hotel, in Manitou Springs (El Paso County) Colorado; a sixty-five room luxury hotel was the first to have electricity, when its own water powered turbine became operational in 1885. It boasted electric lights and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Iron Springs Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1883 and 1887?]
- Ute Iron Spring, Manitou. D. R. G. R. R.
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The frame octagonal pavilion has latticework and projecting bays; a man and a woman stand in one of the entries. The pavilion has a shingled, faceted...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1882 and 1885?]
- Manitou, Colo.
- View of frame, multi-story houses on hillsides in a canyon near Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. One house has a steep pitched, hipped roof; dormers; and a brick chimney. Other houses have mansard roofs. A rounded gazebo ,possibly over a...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Gazebos--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- 1884
- Manitou Springs, Colorado, D.&R.G.R.R.
- Panoramic view of buildings in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows the stone Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Depot, the first, wood frame Manitou House Hotel with a circular drive and the hotel laundry house.
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1886]
- Glen Eyrie
- Exterior view of Glen Eyrie near Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northeast. The residence of General William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, is three story, with a chimney and ridge cresting. Trees conceal most of the house except...
- Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909--Homes & haunts.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1885?]
- Manitou Bath House
- Exterior view of the Manitou Bath House, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. This three story frame structure, built in the Queen Anne style, has clipped gable roofs, ridge cresting, square corner towers that extend a floor above the main building, a...
- Manitou Bath House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bathhouses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1885?]
- Iron Spring Manitou, Colo.
- View of Iron Springs Pavilion in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest; a stone and frame shelter with arches opening into a patio. A surrey and team are on the street; the east wing has ornamental dormers, a widow's walk, and a striped...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Landscape pavilions--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1885 and 1890?]
- Manitou Bath House
- View of the Manitou Bath House in Manitou Springs, Colorado, a Queen Anne style structure with balconies and wrap around porches; the square corner tower shows through trees. The entry, a footbridge across Fountain Creek, is topped by an arched...
- Manitou Bath House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bathhouses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1886?]
- Manitou & Pike's Peak, Colorado, U.S.A.
- View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking southwest; shows Manitou House, the Mansions Hotel, the Cliff House, the Barker House, and the Fountain Creek bridge. Also shows the Congregational Church, with rear bay, gothic arched windows and a flat...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1881 and 1884?]
- Manitou from the East D. & R. G.
- topped corner tower. Manitou School, bell tower. wooden bridge across Fountain Creek A two story gable- roofed house with chimneys is in the lower left. Pike's Peak ; View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking southwest; shows the Manitou House...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1886]
- Manitou, Col.
- behind it is the first Manitou school. The Colorado Midland grade has been cut; one freight car is parked at the location of the depot, not yet built. Pike's Peak and its foothills are in the background.; View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1886]
- Manitou, Colo.
- the location of the Depot, not yet built. Pike's Peak and its foothills are in the background.; View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking southwest. The original Manitou House and Clubhouse are in the lower right. The Mansions Hotel (painted a...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1886]
- Manitou and Pike's Peak, Colorado.
- View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking southwest; shows the Manitou House and Clubhouse, D&RGRR Depot, Mansions Hotel, Wheeler Building, El Paso Livery and Barker House. The Congregational Church has a bay and square corner tower; the Colorado...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1886]
- Manitou Springs, Colo.
- shed, freight shed and track grade are at the upper extreme of the town. Pike's Peak and its foothills are in the background.; View of Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking southwest; shows the Manitou House and Clubhouse, the D.& R. G. Depot, the...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [1888?]
- Manitou, Col.
- corner tower. Behind it is the first Manitou School, a frame building with a bell tower. To the right of the church are remnants of the stone used in its construction, and down the hill is more construction on Manitou Avenue, using the same stone. ...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1881?]
- Cliff House in fog
- Exterior view of the Cliff House Hotel in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northeast. This three story frame structure with hipped gable roof and wrap around porch and balcony was the premier hotel in the west, featuring 110 rooms, hot and cold...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.
- September 1887
- Iron Spring Hotel
- Exterior view of the Iron Springs Hotel in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking southwest. Rebuilt in 1884 after a fire, this three story frame structure with clipped cross gabled roof has a dormer, a chimney, and a finial on the roof peak, and is...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Iron Springs Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)--1880-1890.
- [between 1883 and 1884?]
- Ute Iron Spring
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau, looking northeast. This one story frame structure was a popular destination for hundreds of tourists every summer day in Manitou Springs, Colorado. In the center, the octagonal pavilion with its...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1882 and 1885?]
- Soda Springs & Cliff House, Manitou
- Exterior view of Manitou Springs Pavilion and Cliff House, looking north, in Manitou Springs, Colorado. The pavilion is a shingle roof style building with a waist high rusticated stone foundation, a gabled roof and cupola; one part is enclosed, and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- The veranda at the Cliff
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- 1889
- The Manitou
- Exterior view of the Manitou House, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northeast. This three-story gable roof structure with dormers and wrap around porches was remodelled in the shingle style around 1896. A waist high rusticated stone...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Manitou House Hotel (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1886 and 1890?]
- The porch at the Cliff House
- Exterior view of the Cliff House, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking east; shows a shaded veranda lined with chairs, stone foundation, lathe-turned wooden columns, balustrades, and rusticated stone of the south wing. A wrought iron fence...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Porches--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff House (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1885 and 1890?]
- A scene in Manitou
- Scene in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking north at the Soda Spring Pavilion and the Cliff House. The Pavilion is a frame structure with a cross-gable roof and a cupola with flagpole; the foundation is knee- high rusticated stone. The east half is...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Hotels--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Pedestrian bridges--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880- 1890.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Cliff...
- [between 1885 and 1887?]
- D. & R. G. Depot, Manitou Springs
- The D. & R.G. railroad depot in Manitou Springs, Colorado, a local green-stone structure with stepped chimneys at the ends, was built in 1881 from the plans for an English church by Dr. William Bell. It has a half-bay in one end, quoins and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Bicycles & tricycles--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Denver and Rio Grande Railway Company.
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- Gen. Palmers Home, Glen Eyrie
- Exterior view of Glen Eyrie, near Manitou Springs, Colorado. This three story frame residence remodelled since first built in 1871 by General William Palmer, the founder of Colorado Springs and prominent Manitou citizen, has a gabled roof, a...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Palmer, William Jackson, 1836-1909--Homes & haunts.
- [between 1883 and 1886?]
- Manitou and Vicinity- No. 24. Iron Spring- Little Chief
- Exterior view looking northeast of the original 'Summer House' at Ute Iron Springs in Manitou Springs, Colorado; a shingle roofed pavilion (1880) with latticed balustrade and wooden arched columns. A man is standing inside; mountains and...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Landscape pavilions--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Donkey party at Iron Spring, Manitou
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau, Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. The frame octagonal pavilion has latticework and projecting bays with a shingled, faceted conical roof with ornamental dormer, vent-cap top and flagpole. The...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1882 and 1885?]
- Ute Iron Spring
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau, Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. A one-story frame structure, the octagonal pavilion with its latticework and projecting bays has a two horse tally-ho parked nearby. Its shingled, faceted...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1883 and 1885?]
- Ute Iron Spring
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau, Manitou Springs, Colorado. This one story frame structure was a popular destination for hundreds of tourists every summer day in Manitou Springs, Colorado. In the center, the octagonal pavilion with its...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1882 and 1885?]
- Ute Iron Spring
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Spring Chateau. This one story frame structure has an octagonal pavilion with latticework and projecting bays, there are numerous excursionists gathered around the building. One man is wearing a pith helmet. Its...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Ute Iron Spring Chateau (Manitou Springs, Colo.)
- [between 1882 and 1885?]
- Manitou Springs, Colo. and Pike's Peak
- Panoramic view of buildings in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows a circular drive and laundry house beside the three-story Manitou House Hotel with a second story balcony and dormer windows. The stone Denver and Rio Grande Railway...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [1881]
- Children's burro party, Manitou
- Children pose with burros on Manitou Avenue in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Business signs read: "Meat Market" and "Produce & Commission."
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children & animals--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Commercial streets--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Riding--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1890?]
- Iron Springs, Ruxton Glen
- View of the Ute Iron Springs Chateau and office in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado. Shows tourists in carriages at the wood frame pavilion, the springs office, and the Ute Iron Springs Hotel. Signs read: "Iron Springs Co. Office," and,...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Buildings--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Souvenir shops--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1882 and 1900?]
- Donkey Party, Manitou
- Children pose with burros in Manitou Springs (El Paso County), Colorado, on Manitou Avenue. Business signs read: "Meat Market," and "Produce & Commission."
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Children--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1887 and 1890?]
- Ruxton Street
- View of Ruxton Street, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northeast. The rails for the Manitou Springs trolley are to the left, and power poles and wires are at the edge of the dirt street, at the base of a steep embankment. On the right are...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Streets--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1890.
- [between 1888 and 1890?]
- Iron Springs, Manitou 1822
- Exterior view of the Ute Iron Springs Pavilion, in Manitou Springs, Colorado, looking northwest. The lower level of the west end of this building has a stone arcaded patio, topped by an enclosed, frame second floor with hipped gable roof and a sign...
- Manitou Springs (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Resorts--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.; Springs--Colorado--Manitou Springs--1880-1900.
- [between 1887 and 1899?]