Progress to Restore Concrete Cellar at Ludlow Tent Colony Massacre Site April 20, 1914, Colorado National Guard shot striking coal miners with machine guns and burned their tent camp at Ludlow (Tent Colony – 1,200 population) to the ground. The violent day left 21...
Projects
Project Update: Garcia Ranch Adobe Potato Barn
Conditional Grant from Heritage Area for Garcia Ranch Adobe Potato Barn Photo courtesy of Colorado Preservation, Inc. Colorado Preservation, Inc. received notification of a pending $22,249 grant from Sangre de Cristo National Heritage Area for rehabilitation of the...
Project Update: Manitou Springs Carnegie Library
Manitou Springs Carnegie Library Moving Forward The beautiful and dignified Manitou Springs Carnegie Library crowns a gentle hill overlooking Manitou Avenue in the center of town. It was built with philanthropic funds provided by Andrew Carnegie in 1911. But its role...
Project Update: R&R Market
R&R Market Receives DOLA Main Street Open for Business Grant R&R Market, San Luis, Colorado Colorado’s oldest continuously operating family-owned business, R&R Market in San Luis, listed on Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Most Endangered Places in 2019, will...
Project Update
Commodore Mine Achieves National Register Listing Bachelor-Commodore Mine Complex, photo courtesy of Clerestory Preservation Colorado Preservation, Inc. designated Bachelor-Commodore Mine Complex, a historic mining district, located outside of Creede in Mineral...
Project Update: Historic Bridges of Colorado
Review of Historic Bridges of Colorado Underway Rabbit Valley, Mesa County, photo courtesy of Kevin Strong, CBS4 Colorado Department of Transportation’s (CDOT) statewide nomination of Historic Bridges of Colorado led to Colorado Preservation, Inc. successfully listing...
Project Update: Como Depot
Progress Continues with Laying of Track at Como Depot Laying track at Como Depot, photo courtesy of Como Depot and Roundhouse The remarkable and steady progress in historic preservation in the tiny town of Como in Park County continues with the recent laying of...
Project Update: Temple Aaron
Turn up the Heat Boiler Campaign Mounted for Temple Aaron While August 2020 may be historically hot here in Colorado, Temple Aaron – listed as one of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places by Colorado Preservation, Inc. in 2017 – is thinking even warmer thoughts by...
Project Update: Saguache Hotel
Owner Putting Sweat Equity into Saguache Hotel Saguache Hotel, courtesy of Colorado Preservation, Inc. Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Preservation Services Director Jane Daniels visited Saguache Hotel in June 2021 to check in on the progress of the new private owner,...