Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Nederland, Colorado. Hotels and Motels. The Antlers (first)
- A group of men, women and children stands on the front porch and in front of The Antlers Hotel in Nederland in Boulder County, Colorado, probably in the 1890s. A man stands next to a woman holding a baby on the right side of the front porch. The...
- Boulder County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Nederland (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.; Porches--Colorado--Nederland--1890-1900.
- [between 1935 and 1950?]
- General George Armstrong Custer, officers and ladies at Fort Abraham Lincoln
- Custer and wife of Lt. Calhoun - seated, middle of steps), Lt. Charles A. Varnum (7th Cavalry), Mrs. Myles Moylan (behind General Carlin), Lt. James Calhoun (7th Cavalry - right end of middle row, standing next to porch banister); third or back...
- Fort Abraham Lincoln (N.D.)--1870-1880.; Forts & fortifications--North Dakota--1870-1880.; Military facilities--North Dakota--1870-1880.; Military officers--1870-1880.; Officers' quarters--1870-1880.; Custer, George Armstrong, 1839-1876.
- [between 1874 and 1876]
- Milliken House
- View of the Milliken House at 1638 Galena Street in Aurora, Colorado. The two story Queen Ann style house has a cross gabled roof and is built of brick. It has a stone chimney, a two story, wrap-around porch supported by columns, and a porch...
- Milliken House (Aurora, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Aurora (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Houses.; Historic buildings.; Milliken, H. M.--Homes and haunts--Pictorial works.; Milliken, H. M.--Homes & haunts--1990-2000.; Milliken House (Aurora, Colo.)--Pictorial...
- 1991
- Ninth Street Historic Park Auraria Higher Education Center
- View of houses on 9th (Ninth) Street in the Ninth Street Historic Park (Auraria Ninth Street Historic District) located on the Auraria Higher Education Center Campus in Denver, Colorado. Houses are identified (left to right): the Mullen House (1061...
- Auraria Higher Education Center (Denver, Colo.)--Facilities--2000-2010.; Auraria 9th Street Historic District (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Ninth Street Historic Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Conservation &...
- 2000
- Leadville residence
- This view of a carpenter gothic two story house in Leadville, Colorado features a side gable with a one story addition on the back, a wood shingle roof, a brick chimney, a stone foundation and two second story window dormers cut into the roofline....
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1895]
- Central City, 1953
- A one story house with a stone chimney, flared eaves, and a gabled roof is built above a stone retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The four arched windows are surrounded with decorative brickwork, a wheel window above the porch, and qoinwork....
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Hefferman's Trading Post - inside corral
- View of two white men standing outside of Hefferman's Trading Post, a brush and branch roofed porch surrounded by a wood and wire fence, possibly near Shiprock Agency, New Mexico. A one story adobe and stone building behind the porch has a gable...
- Navajo Indian Reservation--1900-1910.; Trading posts--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- Residence in Central City
- A clapboard one and one-half story house is built above a retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The house has a tin roof, two doors off of the porch, decorative bargeboard around the eaves, and rectangular windows. Electrical wires are attached...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- E. Le Neve Foster Residence, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of a residence in Georgetown, Colorado. The L- shaped wood construction building has a long porch, full-length gable with a bay window, modest decoration at the top of the porch posts, and two windows and a door on the porch; a small...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1890.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1890.
- [between 1870 and 1890?]
- County Hospital (was Charlie Sutton house) [graphic]
- Built as a residence for Charlie and Mary Sutton, the Summit County Hospital in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a two story, gable roofed, frame structure with a shed roofed side extension and a gable roofed addition in back. An open porch extends the...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hospitals--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- [between 1906 and 1910?]
- Breckenridge residence
- An open porch with Ionic columns and a balustrade surrounds a frame residence in Breckenridge, Colorado, and shelters a bay window in the near end. A wreath is on the wall next to it, and a door on the other side is decorated with pine branches....
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Dwellings--Colorado--Breckenridge--1970-1980.
- 1970 Feb 6
- Bedrock - 1959
- View in Bedrock, Colorado showing the open front porch of a store in Bedrock; shows crates, barrels, chair with back padding torn out, and other miscellaneous items littering the porch; wood beams run horizontally, the length of the roof and also...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Porches--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Georgetown, Colorado
- View of the corner of a porch on a house in Georgetown, Colorado. Elaborate wrought iron at the top of the roof of the porch is silhouetted against the sky, and decorative carving on the porch eaves and porch post are visible beneath.
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1960-1980.; Porches--Colorado--Georgetown--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980?]
- Idaho Springs, Colorado - Soda Creek, Judson M. Brown residence
- View of the Judson M. Brown two story detached house in Soda Creek Canyon near Idaho Springs, Colorado; features a cross gable roof, horizontal clapboard siding, rectangular bay openings with entabulature on the facing facade, projecting open porch...
- Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1890-1900.; Brown, Judson M.--Homes & haunts.
- [1898?]
- Idaho Springs, Colorado residences
- View of tree lined street with residences in Idaho Springs, Colorado; includes the three story Marshall house (advertising steam and board) with three men standing near the house and a woman sitting on the porch; house features a bay window, hipped...
- Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Houses--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1920-1930.
- July 23, 1922
- Mountain country store, Bedrock, Colo.
- Two men stand on the front porch of the "Hartman Merc. Co. Genl. Merchandise" in the town of Bedrock, Colorado, in Montrose County. The country store is a two-story, wood-frame building with a top porch with slanting roof, and a covered porch that...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1920-1925.; Stores & shops--Colorado--Bedrock--1920-1930.
- [1925?]
- Empire
- The porch of the Hotel Splendide in North Empire, Clear Creek County, Colorado, has four posts with decorative woodwork; two posts have horseshoes fastened to them. A decorative carved railing runs between the posts. Signs on the building wall...
- Empire (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Empire--1960-1970.
- 1960
- Ferndale, Colo.
- The Robinsons sit on the porch of their home in Ferndale, Colorado, in Jefferson County. The house is constructed of logs; tree trunks are used as the railings for the porch. Another man sits on the porch in the background.
- Ferndale (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Log cabins--Colorado--Ferndale--1900-1910.; Robinson, Mary Byers.; Robinson, W. F.
- 1900
- Lace House, Black Hawk
- View of the corner of the porch at the Lace House in Black Hawk, Colorado; shows detail in the construction of this Carpenter Gothic residence oncluding the bargeboard on the eaves, the siding along the porch frieze, and the corner post of the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1980.
- [between 1964 and 1974]
- Hayner Residence, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of a wood construction house in Georgetown, Colorado. The one-story residence is made up of two full-length gables with a gable-roofed section with an arched porch between. The left gable has a large bay window, and the gable to the...
- Hayner, William--Homes & haunts--1870-1900.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Bowman-White House, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of the porch of the Bowman-White House in Georgetown, Colorado, at 901 Rose Street. The house was built in 1892 by John Henry Bowman, who arrived in Georgetown with his family in the 1880s. The house was passed on to his daughter,...
- Bowman, John Henry--Homes & haunts.; White, John James--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1980.
- [between 1892 and 1974?]
- Meat Market, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of a meat market in Georgetown, Colorado. The central storefront is taller than the two on either side; all have false fronts with simple horizonal bracketed cornices. The left and right bays of the porch have horizonal boards for...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1870-1900.; Butcher shops--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- [between 1870 and 1900?]
- Hotchkiss Fruit Co.
- An L-shaped building in Hotchkiss, Colorado, has "The Hotchkiss Fruit Company" on one part of the roof, and "Hotchkiss Fruit" on the other. A porch runs the entire length of the inside of the L, with a porch and clerestory windows below a gable...
- Hotchkiss (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Fruit industry--Colorado--Hotchkiss--1910-1920.
- [Between 1911 and 1918?]
- Denver Orphan's Home Historic Building Application Forms
- Porch of Denver Hotel, 1899-1900
- The porch of the Denver Hotel in Breckenridge, Colorado, is possible next to huge snowbanks where fresh snow has fallen. Two men and two women stand under the open porch with its sawtoothed arches. The women wear heavy coats and feathered, capote...
- Denver Hotel (Breckenridge, Colo.)--1890-1900.; Breckenridge (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Snow--Colorado--Breckenridge--1890-1900.
- [between 1898 and 1900?]
- Common Aspen front porch decor
- View of the front covered porch and entryway to the Fred Glidden (Luke Short) house in Aspen, Colorado; features bracketed cornice supported by four posts and paneled double doors with "232" on the transom; doors have arched panes of glass with...
- Glidden, Fred--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Doors & doorways--Colorado--Aspen--1960-1980.; Porches--Colorado--Aspen--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980]
- Men, women and girls on a porch
- People pose on the front porch of a clapboard house with shutters at probably Fort Keogh (Custer County), Montana. Women wear patterned blouses with scarves, jackets with pointed lapels, puffed sleeves, decorated straw hats, belted skirts, and pose...
- Fort Keogh (Mont.)--1890-1900.; Children--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Families--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Military officers--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Porches--Montana--Fort Keogh--1890-1900.; Women--Montana--Fort...
- [between 1892 and 1895?]
- Poor Farm Bed & Breakfast, Salida
- View of the Poor Farm Bed and Breakfast (now the River Run Inn) at 8495 County Road 160 in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. The two story, square brick building has a hip roof and a covered porch. The west side of the building has scaffolding up...
- Poor Farm Bed and Breakfast (Salida, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Salida (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Hotels.; Poor Farm Bed and Breakfast (Salida, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bed and breakfast accommodations--Colorado--Salida--Pictorial works.; Salida...
- 1994
- Charles J. Hughes House
- View of the Charles J. Hughes House at 2036 Emerson Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the facade of a brick, three-story Queen Anne-style building with a hipped roof. The front of the house has a semi-circular front...
- Hughes, Charles J. (Charles James), 1853-1911--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Historic buildings.; Houses.; Hughes, Charles J. (Charles James), 1853-1911--Homes and haunts.;...
- 1988
- Robert Trujillo's house
- View of 4030 Tejon Street, home of Robert Trujillo, long-time Chairman of the Colorado Communist Party USA, in the Sunnyside neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The Queen Anne style house features front and side gables, a covered front porch, as well...
- Trujillo, Robert, chairman, Colorado Communist Party--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Sunnyside (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Houses.; Trujillo, Robert, chairman, Colorado Communist Party--Homes and haunts.;...
- ca. 1980
- Murder By The Book
- Professor Tom Noel waves from the front porch of Murder By The Book (1936), a book shop at 1574 Pearl Street, in the Platt Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The shop is in a Queen Anne style house with prominent front and side gables and...
- Murder By The Book (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Platt Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Bookstores.; Murder By The Book (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bookstores--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver...
- 1998
- 1530 Pearl Street
- View of the facade of 1530 Pearl Street in the North Capitol Hill Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The Queen Anne Style house has a hipped roof with a prominent front dormer with fish scale shingles. The front porch has a pediment. The second...
- Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses.; Dwellings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1976
- J.M. Olguín Mercantile store
- View of the J.M. Olguín Mercantile owned by Jesús María Olguín in San Luis (Costilla County), Colorado. The adobe building has a wooden facade with a cornice, show windows and a recessed entry. The windows have roll down shades and the...
- J.M. Olguín Mercantile (San Luis, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Hispanic Americans--1910-1920.; Mexican Americans--1910-1920.; San Luis (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Boys.; General stores.; J.M. Olguín Mercantile (San Luis, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 1910
- Fort Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park
- View of Fort Yellowstone located in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming. The Fort was built to house United States Army troops charged with protecting Yellowstone National Park from poachers, souvenir hunters and developers. Shows multi-storied...
- Fort Yellowstone (Wyo.)--1900-1910.; Yellowstone National Park--1900-1910.; Military facilities.; National parks & reserves.
- c1905
- Carriage from Stonewall to Trinidad
- A group of passengers stand outside the J.W. Shouse General Store in Stonewall (Las Animas County), Colorado. A man identified as Jim Ryan sits in the drivers seat of the Trinidad and Stonewall carriage. Women and children sit in the passenger...
- Stonewall (Las Animas County, Colo.)--1890-1910.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Stonewall--1890-1910.; People--Colorado--Stonewall--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--Stonewall--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1905?]
- Mining household
- A group of miners, a woman, and children pose on the porch of a clapboard house probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. One man slings a gun over his shoulder and another pours beer from a bottle into a glass. A man standing on the porch pretends...
- Children--Colorado--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.; Women--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Coal camp children
- A group of boys and girls pose on the porch of their home in a coal camp probably in Las Animas County, Colorado. One of the older girls holds a baby in her arms. The other girls stand nearby. One boy wears work overalls and stands near a porch...
- Children--Colorado--1890-1910.; Coal mining--Colorado--1890-1910.; Infants--Colorado--1890-1910.; Mining--Colorado--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Houses in Leadville, Colorado
- This view of a false front residence in Leadville, Colorado, features a weathered clapboard structure with fish-scale pattern shingles on a mansard front roof, a projecting gable porch with diamond pattern shingles covering the front entry, and...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1941
- Lace House in Leadville
- View of the facade of the Lace House in Leadville, Colorado, shows the clapboard false front structure with jigsaw carving, a paired bracketed cornice with wood shingle roof, a central entry with metal screen door and transom, two tall flanking...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Teller County Hospital, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of restored Teller County Hospital (also called Hospitality House), 600 North "B" Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; hospital erected in 1901 and closed in 1960's; building was later purchased by Mackin family and used for handling...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Hospitals--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1980-1990.
- [between 1980 and 1989]
- The New Clarendon Hotel
- Illustration depicts exterior of Clarendon Hotel, Cripple Creek, Colorado; the hotel is a two-story wooden frame flat-roof structure with a falsefront, side entry and doorway underneath porch with balustrades, and pairs of double-hung flat windows;...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- Site of new J. H. Wolfe Hotel, Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek
- Wintertime on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado with rows of one and two-story flat-roof wooden frame commercial buildings with false fronts; the Palace Hotel in the foreground, a two-story flat-roof brick building with plain boxed cornice,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts-- Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- Central City home interior
- The back porch of a Central City home is framed in a dark, round border. The house is brick and has two rectangular windows and lattice work on the right side of the porch. Wood steps lead up to the porch with a wood railing. A planter is next to...
- Central City (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1930-1950.; Porches--Colorado--Central City--1930-1950.
- [between 1930 and 1950?]
- 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
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A large, two story clapboard house is built above a retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The house has a flat roof with eaves that extend out over the sides of the roof. Two bay windows, one on the upper level and one on the lower level, have...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A front gable, one and one half story clapboard house is built on a masonry foundation in Central City, Colorado, and has a stovepipe chimney and decorative bargeboard around its eaves. An arched attic window is above the covered porch. The posts...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A two story, clapboard house with a pediment-style front gabled roof with tin covering and a chimney is seen from the side. Decorative columns are under the eaves. The house has rectangular windows with lintels and molding around them. Windows on...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Residences in Central City, Colorado
- A gothic revival house is built behind a masonry retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The one and one-half story clapboard structure has a gabled, tin roof with gingerbread bargeboard around the eaves. The porch is supported by simple columns...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960]
- Interior of hogan
- Interior view of Native American (Navajo) men, women, and children sitting and standing in a hogan with a brush porch. A girl and woman sit and face one another under the brush covered porch, near a metal bucket. Two men stand near a high-backed...
- Indians of North America--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Structures--1900-1910.; Interiors--1900-1910.; Lodges--1900-1910.
- [1908?]
- Loom-child-blanket
- Interior shows a Native American (Navajo) girl sitting on a blanket, under a brush shelter porch, near a loom. Near the loom in use is another unused loom. A metal pail sits near a woven blanket, outside of the brush porch. A dark blanket,...
- Indians of North America--Arts & crafts--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Navajo Indians--Women--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Looms--New Mexico--1900-1910.; Weaving--New Mexico--1900-1910.
- [September, 1908]