Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Crested Butte, 1963 Congregational Community Church
- View of the Union Congregational Church in Crested Butte, Colorado; features a front gable, decorative bargeboard, arched-pointed windows (above rectangular windows, front facade), horizontal clapboard siding, finials, a square bell tower, and a...
- Union Congregational Church (Crested Butte, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Crested Butte (Colo. : Mountain)--1960-1970.; Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Congregational churches--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960- 1970.
- 1963
- Senator Hill's home, Black Hawk - 1942
- View of Senator Hill's two-story home in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows steeply-pitched roof with finial, cross-gable roof, gable dormer, first floor bay window, small open porch with lattice balustrade and decorative columns, and bracketted eaves. A...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Blackhawk - 1957
- View of Carpenter Gothic style residence in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows a steeply gabled roof, pilaster corner boards, horizontal clapboard, finial, gingerbread bargeboard, two double hung two pane windows on the first floor and one on the second....
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Residences--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.
- 1957
- Black Hawk - 1941
- View of rock walls and residences in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows two rows of houses on a hillside. The front row has two houses of carpenter Gothic style, L shape, and open porches. Telephone poles and wires are between the houses and the second...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Stone walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Black Hawk - 1941
- View up a hill of a residence in Black Hawk, Colorado, constructed in Carpenter Gothic style. Features include: gabled L-shape floor plan, horizontal logs, windows that are double hung with two panes per sash, steeply pitched roof and gable...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Stone walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Panel on door
- View of an arched residential doorway in Black Hawk, Colorado; the door is recessed with overdoor lights, sidelights, a screen door, and a perpendicular representation of a woman painted on the door. The woman lies on her side with her arms and...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Doors & doorways--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Black Hawk - 1942, residence in Chase Gulch
- View of a residence in Blackhawk, Colorado, with mansard roof, single chimney, front gabled dormer, bay window and double hung window on first floor, double hung windows on second floor, and front porch with pilasters. Three children are in front...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Children--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Rock walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Mine portal under schoolhouse, Black Hawk - 1942
- View of rock wall in front of a school building in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows stairs, railing and first floor of the school. At the bottom of the wall is an arched mine entrance. A square hole is above the arch.
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Stone walls--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Black Hawk - 1942, schoolhouse built in 1872
- Exterior view of schoolhouse and Presbyterian church in Black Hawk, Colorado. The two-story square school has a medium center gable roof shape, horizontal clapboard siding, and pilaster corner boards. The entry way is a center door at the main...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Education--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Presbyterian churches--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Schools--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Miss Gibbons schoolroom, Black Hawk, 1942
- Interior view of schoolroom in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows heating stove with stovepipe, four rows of student desks facing chalkboard, support beam in middle, calendar hanging on wall, and clock hanging over chalkboard at front of room. Bright...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Education--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.; Interiors.; Schools--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Black Hawk-1941
- View toward a steep hill with residences lined up horizontally in Black Hawk, Colorado. At base of hill is an automobile of 1930's vintage (rear window missing) and a sheepherder's mobile home on blocks (only slightly larger than the car) with an...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Black Hawk - 1942
- View west on Gregory Street, Black Hawk, Colorado; shows the Richard's and Sullivan buildings built in the 1870's, plank sidewalk which covers the flume to direct seasonal flood water to Clear Creek, and the Rohling block. A man stands on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Black Hawk - 1957
- View up a steep, tree filled incline in Black Hawk, Colorado. Four residences are on hillside. Center house is two-story, with horizontal clapboard, medium gable, a single-centered chimney with brick base and stovepipe top, a single-pane square...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.
- 1957
- Blackhawk - 1957, Toll Gate Saloon
- Exterior view of the Toll Gate Saloon, Black Hawk, Colorado. The single-detached three-story building is a square building plan, with a medium gable (offset right), left and right rear chimneys (single stacks), and a shed dormer to the rear. First...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Bars--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.
- 1957
- Black Hawk, 1926
- View of an unidentified building in Black Hawk, Colorado. It has a false front backed by a medium gabeled roof. The front is horizontal clapboard, while the side is a vertical plank. On the first floor, there are two windows on either side of...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1920-1930.
- 1926
- Spring Street, Central City
- View looking down unpaved Spring Street in Central City, Colorado, in the late spring or early summer. In the foreground the street is shaded by trees that grow on both sides of it. A stone wall borders the street in front of the trees. A lone...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Stone walls--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Spring Street, Central City
- View down unpaved Spring Street in Central City, Colorado. A Cornish dry-masonry wall borders the street; Aspen trees grow in front of the wall; garbage litters the ground. Part of an automobile, which is heading toward the town, is visible on the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Spring Street, Central City streets
- View of a brick house the edge of a hill on Spring Street in Central City, Colorado. The house is a one-story structure with a porch, a bay window with large rectangular windows, and a flat roof. A stone wall is on the left side of the house, and...
- Central City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1960-1970.
- 1967
- Eureka Creek, outside of Central City, Colorado
- View of a wooden sidewalk and railing that span Eureka Gulch and Creek outside of Central City, Colorado. The railing and sidewalk are alongside a dirt road. Two wood-frame houses sit on the hill on the other side of the gulch, where much of the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Eureka Gulch (Gilpin County, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Wooden sidewalks--Colorado--Central City--1920-1930.
- 1926
- Carson, 1946
- View of three dilapidated structures in Carson, Colorado; shows vertical board and batten siding and steep gabled roofs on two of the structures, and a false front on the third (saloon); discarded timbers (possibly the remains of a fallen...
- Carson (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.
- 1946
- Central City, Colorado
- View of Central City, Colorado, probably taken from Spring Street. The dirt road, which leads into the town, is flanked by cars on the left and several buildings on the right. The building to the right is constructed of stone, wood, and has...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Roads--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City, Colorado
- View looking down on Spring Street, which is just outside Central City, Colorado. A pile of mine tailings is in the lower front corner. Below in the gulch are several buildings. One has a roof with undistinguishable writing on the front. The...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City, 1942
- The Smith house, built by mining magnate Eben Smith, is above a masonry retaining wall overlooking Casey Avenue in Central City, Colorado. It is a gothic revival, board-and-batten house with a steeply pitched gabled roof, shingles, and gingerbread...
- Smith, Eben, 1832-1906--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Central City, 1942
- A partial view of the Smith house, a Gothic Revival, board-and- batten house in Central City, Colorado, shows the gables and the front porch of the two story, L-shaped structure with a steeply pitched roof with shingles, bargeboard gingerbread...
- Smith, Eben, 1832-1906--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Central City, 1953
- A two-story brick structure with a flat roof, decorative cornice, and chimney, stands on the side of a hill in Central City, Colorado. It has arched windows with sills on the top level and a rectangular window with a mantle on the bottom level. A...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Donkeys--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- House of Spring St., Central City, 1953
- A two story, brick house with a hipped roof, chimney, covered porch, and three dormer windows is built above a masonry retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The dormer windows are arched, while the lower level windows are rectangular and have...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- House, Eureka St., Central City, 1953
- Two houses built above a retaining wall stand on Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado. One house is a two-story, brick box with a flat roof, a double-bracketed cornice, a covered porch, and is separated from the other house by a white picket...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Houses, Eureka St., Central City, 1953
- An L-shaped, clapboard, one-story house is built above a retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. It has a peaked tin roof, a chimney, and a covered porch. The rectangular windows have dark shutters, and an electrical wire is attached to the front...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Pine St., Central City, 1953
- Two residences are along a hillside on Pine Street in Central City, Colorado. The house in the foreground is a two story, clapboard box with a gabled roof, a dormer window, and rectangular windows with lintels over each window and the door. A car...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Main St., Central City
- Two masonry houses stand in front of St. Mary's of the Assumption Catholic Church on Pine Street in Central City, Colorado. Both buildings have flat roofs, cornices, and arched windows. Built above a retaining wall, the first house has a Victorian...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- McFarlane House [sic] Central City
- Two houses on Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado, one is a large, two-story clapboard structure with a spindled balcony, a covered porch with spindles along the porch freize, and a large bay window. The second is a simple two story clapboard...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; McFarlane House (Central City, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Automobiles--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.;...
- 1953
- House on Eureka St., Central City, 1953
- A gothic revival home along Eureka Street in Central City, Colorado, is built above a masonry retaining wall. The L-shaped, one and one-half story, clapboard house has a gabled roof, a stovepipe chimney, and rectangular windows with shutters on...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Old house on Spring Street, Central City, 1953
- A deteriorating two story, brick house on Spring Street in Central City, Colorado, is partially obscured by the trees that grow in front of and around it. It has a flat roof, chimneys, and arched windows with decorative brick work above each window...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Old house of Spring Street, Central City, 1953
- A dilapidated, two story, brick house on Spring Street in Central City, Colorado, is partially obscured by trees. It has a covered porch, arched windows with window sills, and decorative brick work over each window. Several panes of glass in the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- House on Gregory Street, Central City, 1964
- A clapboard one and one-half story Gothic Revival home is built above a masonry retaining wall on Spring Street in Central City, Colorado. It has a covered porch and an addition to its right. The gabled roof, which has a chimney, is covered with...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City buildings
- Exteriors of the sides of two buildings in Central City, Colorado. The first building is a masonry structure with a flat roof and two rectangular windows in the front on either side of the doorway. A pipe frame is attached to the rear of the...
- Central City (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Central City
- View of the back of a three-story, stone storefront building in Central City, Colorado. Debris, rocks, weeds, and other vegetation litter the ground in front of the building. The back of the building has six rectangular windows and two doors, one...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City
- A dilapidated, two-story, stone building sits on a slope in Central City, Colorado. Built with a flat roof and chimneys, the structure has eight arched windows with brick borders with a lighter- colored keystone in the center of each arch. Two...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City
- A deteriorating, masonry, two-story building with a hipped roof and a double-bracketed cornice is on a grassy hillside in Central City, Colorado. The rectangular-shaped windows, which have no panes, have stone sills and mantles. The entry, which...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Stone buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City Mining Museum, 1953
- The Central City Mining Museum is housed in a old mine. It is a one and one-half story structure with the enclosure for the elevator machinery above the gable of the roof. An addition to the building, which has a flat roof and a large window,...
- Central City Mining Museum (Central City, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City, 1953
- A vernacular, two story, wood frame house is on the side of a hill in Central City, Colorado. The house has a clapboard front, gabled roof with a side dormer and rectangular windows, A decorative lintel is above each window and the door. A large...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church (Central City, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Fulford - 1942
- View of Fulford (a.k.a. Nolan's Creek and Camp Fulford), Eagle County, Colorado; includes gable roof buildings, two of log construction and one with a false front, in the middle of a meadow with flowers; tall plants and pine trees and 1930s or...
- Fulford (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Log buildings--Colorado--Fulford--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Central City
- View of the north side of the Eureka Street buildings taken from behind a white, wood fence in Central City, Colorado. Washington Hall (one of the few buildings to survive the fire of 1874) is in foreground. The Cast Houses, which have trees...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Fulford - 1942, store
- View of Fulford (a.k.a. Nolan's Creek Camp and Camp Fulford), Eagle County, Colorado; includes abandoned gable roof log construction building with weathered false front in a meadow of wildflowers, fence made of branches, and evergreen forest in the...
- Fulford (Colo.)--1940-1950.; False fronts--Colorado--Fulford--1940-1950.; Log cabins--Colorado--Fulford--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Saloon
- View of the saloon in Carson, Colorado; shows steeply gabled roof line, rectangular bays (including two windows and a door), vertical board and batten siding, and the outline of a false front; steps lead up to the doorway and discarded lumber...
- Carson (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bars--Colorado--Carson--1940-1950.
- 1946
- Fairplay - 1941 Catholic Church
- View of a one story Catholic church in Fairplay (Park County), Colorado; features a front gable, single chimney, horizontal clapboard siding, a decorative window over the double leaf door, decorative woodwork between the door and the window,...
- Fairplay (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Fairplay--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Fairplay - 1942
- View of a large three story residential building in Fairplay (Park County), Colorado; features intersecting gables, gingerbread bargeboard, first floor bay window, roof crested square tower, and an open front porch with turned support posts; fence,...
- Fairplay (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Fairplay--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Fairplay
- View of two buildings in Fairplay (Park County), Colorado; shows a building with a front gable, hewn horizontal log walls with chinking, a entry door and a loft door; other building has a hipped roof with shed roof attachment, one chimney,...
- Fairplay (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Fairplay--1950-1960.; Log buildings--Colorado--Fairplay--1950-1960.
- 1958
- Creede - 1942
- View of the cemetery in Creede, Colorado; shows a two track road leading to the top of a hill; gravestones on one side of the road and a small chapel enclosed by a metal fence on the other side; chapel has a front gable with return and a small...
- Creede (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Creede--1940-1950.; Churches--Colorado--Creede--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Cemetery - above Creede -
- View of the cemetery in Creede, Colorado showing a small chapel enclosed by a metal fence; chapel features a front gable with return, arched pointed windows (covered) and a small steeple with a cross on top; low hills in the background.
- Creede (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Cemeteries--Colorado--Creede--1940-1950.; Chapels--Colorado--Creede--1940-1950.
- 1942