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Endangered Places

Zuni Steam Power Plant

Before April 1901, Denver had only one electric light and power plant to provide electricity for the city's growing population. In March 1900, Charles F. LaCombe and his beneficiaries received a franchise to build an electric power plant, breaking the monopoly of the...

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World’s Wonder View Tower

Constructed by Charles Gregory in 1926, the Tower became the main attraction in all of Lincoln County and a must stop for travelers headed across Colorado. It appeared in guidebooks from the 1930s through 2013 when it closed.

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Winter Park Balcony House

Winter Park’s original base area ski lodge, known as the Balcony House, vividly represents the early history and pioneering evolution of the City of Denver’s first Mountain Park, while also fostering groundbreaking developments in the Colorado ski industry as a...

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Windsor Mill

One of a small number of landmarked agricultural processing facilities on CO's eastern plains. Erected on the threshold of a nationwide shift in mill and elevator architecture, this transitional building represents the progression from earlier wood structures to...

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Willowcroft Manor

Prominent Denver architect Robert Roeschlaub was hired to design main house to be an architectural and technological showpiece.

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Walsenburg Power Plant

This plant represents an important time period in American History when the country was changing from steam to electric power. It was constructed to provide energy to the Walsen Mine and the town of Walsenburg. It is the last remaining structure of the Walsen Camp...

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