Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Idaho Springs, Colorado, residences
- View of the John Owen house in Idaho Springs, Colorado; features a single detached two story structure with cross gable roof and overhanging cornice, gable ornamentation under the overhang, first floor bay window, wooden quoins at the corners,...
- Owen, John--Homes & haunts.; Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1960-1980.
- [between 1965 and 1980]
- The Gilpin Hotel, exterior
- Exterior view of The Gilpin Hotel, Black Hawk, Colorado. The building is a square, single detached structure with three stories and a flat roof. The walls are brick with a common bond type of brickwork on the facade. There are seven bays on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Blackhawk--1890-1910.; Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)
- [between 1896 and 1910]
- The Gilpin Hotel, exterior
- Exterior view of The Gilpin Hotel in Black Hawk, Colorado. The building is a square, single detached structure with three stories and a flat roof. The walls are brick with a common bond type of brickwork on the facade. There are seven bays on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.; Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)
- 1965
- The Gilpin Hotel, exterior
- Exterior view of The Gilpin Hotel, Blackhawk, Colorado. The building is a square, single detached structure with three stories and a flat roof. The walls are brick with a common bond type of brickwork on the facade. There are seven bays on the...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.; Gilpin Hotel (Blackhawk, Colo.)
- [1965?]
- First floor and second floor plans Curtis Hall, Colorado Womans College
- First floor and second floor plans for the Curtis Hall student residence, Colorado Woman's College, 1740 Pontiac Street, East Colfax neighborhood, Denver, Colorado, completed in 1956. The floor plans illustrate the public and private areas of the...
- Colorado Woman's College--Facilities--1950-1960.; Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; East Colfax (Denver, Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dormitories.; Universities & colleges.
- 1955
- 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
- Municipal Facts: Volume 10 Numbers 11 and 12, 1927 November-December
- Wyatt-Edison School
- View of the Wyatt-Edison Charter School (1887; Robert Roeschlaub, architect), originally named Hyde Park Elementary School and later G. W. Wyatt Public School, located at 3620 Franklin Street in the Cole neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the...
- Wyatt-Edison Charter School (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Cole (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Historic buildings.; Schools.; Wyatt-Edison Charter School (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Charter...
- 2002
- G.W. Wyatt Public School
- View of Wyatt Elementary School, now Wyatt-Edison Charter Elementary School (1887; Robert Roeschlaub, architect), originally named Hyde Park Elementary, at 3620 Franklin Street in the Cole neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the main entrance...
- Wyatt Elementary School (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Cole (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Historic buildings.; Schools.; Wyatt Elementary School (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Elementary...
- 1978
- Alta Court
- View of the Alta Court (formerly the Altamaha Apartment Building - 1902; George Boettcher) at 1490 Lafayette Street (1300-1326 East Colfax Avenue) in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This three-story brick Italian Renaissance...
- Alta Court (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities.; Historic buildings.; Alta Court (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Commercial...
- ca. 1984
- Gallup-Stanbury Building
- View of the Gallup-Stanbury Building (1873) at 1445-1451 Larimer Street in the Union Station neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a three-story red brick commercial building in the Italianate style. The storefront along the first floor is cast...
- Gallup-Stanbury Building (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Larimer Street (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Union Station neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Commercial facilities.; Historic buildings.; Gallup-Stanbury...
- 1995
- 1640 Logan Street, Denver
- View of 1640 Logan Street in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This Beaux Arts-style, single family residence was constructed in 1886. It has a rough-faced stone foundation with inserted glass block windows and a convex mansard...
- Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Houses.; Dwellings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Denver (Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 1976
- Bedrock - 1950
- View of a commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado, showing a two story structure that includes rough cut rock siding (first floor), horizontal clapboard siding (second floor), rectangular bays, open front porch with ceiling and support posts...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1950
- Bedrock - 1959
- View of a two story commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado; features rough cut rock siding (first floor), horizontal clapboard siding (second floor), rectangular bays, open front porch with ceiling and corner posts (first floor), second floor...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.; Gasoline pumps--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Bedrock - 1959
- View of two cars and a two story commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado; features vertical board and batten siding (first floor), rectangular window bays, and horizontal clapboard siding (second floor); lean-to roof covers the first floor porch...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Bonanza 1942
- View of a large two story structure with an "L" shaped floor plan on the second story, and a square floor plan on the first floor; features a hipped roof, rectangular bays, covered porch (first floor), crawl space, lean-to roof, and vertical board...
- Bonanza (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Bonanza--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Black Hawk, buildings
- Exterior view of the Fick's carriage shop in Blackhawk, Colorado. It is a single, two story, rectangular structure with three bays on the ground floor and three on the second floor. On the first floor, two windows flank the main loading door,...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Buildings--Colorado--Blackhawk--1960-1970.
- 1969
- First floor plan, second floor plan Pulliam Hall residence, Colorado Womans College
- First floor and second floor plans for Pulliam Hall student residence, Colorado Women's College, 7110 Montview Avenue, East Colfax neighborhood, Denver, Colorado, completed in 1947. The floor plans illustrate the public and private areas of the...
- Colorado Women's College--Buildings--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950; East Colfax (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950; Dormitories.; Universities & colleges.
- 1945
- First floor plan, Green Mountain Townhouses
- View of a floor plan and rendering for the first floor of a unit at the Green Mountain Townhouses in Lakewood, Colorado. Shows the floor plan for the garage, study, kitchen, interior courtyard, bathroom, storage closet, living room and guest...
- Green Mountain Townhouses (Lakewood, Colo.)--1960-1970.; Lakewood (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Floor plans.; Renderings.; Row houses.
- [1965?]
- Perspective, first floor plan Epiphany Episcopal Church - Denver
- Perspective (color) and first floor plan for the Epiphany Episcopal Church, 100 Colorado Boulevard, Hilltop neighborhood, Denver, Colorado, commissioned by Reverend Robert A. Russell in the late 1930s. Although primarily unadorned, the structure...
- Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Hilltop (Denver, Colo.)--1940-1950.; Churches.; Episcopal churches.; Episcopal Schools.
- 1940, August 7 (plan); 1940, August 6 (perspective)
- Municipal Facts: Volume 11 Numbers 1 and 2, 1928 January-February
- Dedication exercises, East High School.
- Program for the dedication of the East High School building on Colfax and Elizabeth Street in Denver, Colorado.
- High schools--Colorado--Denver.; East High School (Denver, Colo.)
- 1925 September 25
- Odd Fellows Hall, Russell Gulch, Colo.
- View of the Russell Gulch Odd Fellow Hall no. 2, located 3.5 miles southwest of Central City in Russell Gulch, Colorado. The two-story field stone structure has a red brick facade with a commercial space on the ground floor. Large store windows...
- Rocky Mountain Independent Order of Odd Fellows. Russell Gulch Lodge No. 2 (Russell Gulch, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Russell Gulch--2000-2010.; Russell Gulch (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Rocky Mountain Independent Order of Odd...
- 2002
- Altamaha Apartments
- View of the Altamaha Apartment Building (1902; George Boettcher) at 1490 Lafayette Street in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This three-story brick Italian Renaissance Revival style building has a flat roof and three bay facade....
- Altamaha Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Cheesman Park (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Apartment houses.; Historic buildings.; Altamaha Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Apartment...
- 1976
- Lincoln Hall
- View of Lincoln Hall building (1880) at 1415 Larimer Street in the Union Station neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a three-story brick commercial structure in the Second Empire style. The third floor of the building is made to look like a...
- Lincoln Hall Building (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Larimer Street (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Union Station neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Commercial facilities.; Historic buildings.; Storefronts.; Lincoln...
- 1995
- Rowling building, Nevadaville
- The Odd Fellow's [?] Building in Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, is a two-story brick fronted structure with millworked storefronts on the ground floor and double hung windows spanning the second floor. The first floor of the Redman's Lodge...
- Grand United Order of Odd Fellows--1930-1940.; Nevadaville (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Abandoned buildings--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.; Streets--Colorado--Nevadaville--1930-1940.
- [between 1937 and 1939?]
- Las Animas County Bloom mansion, Trinidad
- Frank G. Bloom residence, in Trinidad, Colorado is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings. Built in 1882, this four story brick, French Victorian residence has metal-covered mansard roofs and widow's walk railing on the top two...
- Bloom, Frank G.--Homes & haunts.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Trinidad--1960-1970.
- July 1966
- Las Animas County Bloom mansion in Trinidad
- Frank G. Bloom residence, in Trinidad, Colorado is listed on the National Register of Historic Buildings. Built in 1882, this four story brick, French Victorian residence has metal-covered mansard roofs and widow's walk railing on the top two...
- Bloom, Frank G.--Homes & haunts.; Trinidad (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Trinidad--1960-1970.
- July 1966
- Alpine Hose Company No. 2 Firehouse, Georgetown, Colorado
- View of the Alpine Hose Company No. 2 firehouse, Georgetown, Colorado, looking southeast. The building, built in 1874, is of wood construction with a sloping roof, and has a false cornice on the front. "Alpine Hose No. 2" is painted on the front....
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bell towers--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.; Fire stations--Colorado--Georgetown--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Catholic Hospital, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of the Catholic Hospital in Georgetown, Colorado, built in 1880 and which burned in 1911. The two-story brick building has an overhanging cornice at the roofline, seven double-hung windows on the second floor, and four windows and a...
- Georgetown (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hospitals--Colorado--Georgetown--1890-1900.; Catholic Hospital (Georgetown, Colo.)
- 1899
- 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?]
- Breckenridge High School
- The red brick high school in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a large scale two story building with two hipped gable end wings and a gabled wing connecting them. The main floor features sash windows, and the elevated basement has small ground level...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Schools--Colorado--Breckenridge--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1970?]
- Red brick school
- The red brick high school in Breckenridge, Colorado is a large scale two story building with two hipped gable end wings with a gabled wing connecting them. The main floor features sash windows, and the elevated basement has small ground level...
- Breckenridge (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Schools--Colorado--Breckenridge--1900-1910.
- [between 1909 and 1910?]
- Bedrock - 1959
- View of a two story commercial building in Bedrock, Colorado; features vertical board and batten siding (first floor), horizontal clapboard siding (second floor), rectangular bays, open front porch with ceiling, second floor balcony with...
- Bedrock (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Bedrock--1950-1960.
- 1959
- Public School, Aurora, Colo.
- A public school in Aurora, Colorado, is a two story, brick structure with flat roof and art deco features. The windows have lintels and sills, quoins, and decorative brickwork. A stepped, raised parapet is over the square bay above the door. An...
- Aurora (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Schools--Colorado--Aurora--1920-1930.
- April 30, 1926
- Radium hot springs, Idaho Springs, Colorado, a bathing institution with hotel accommodations
- View of the Radium Springs Hotel in Soda Creek Canyon near Idaho Springs, Colorado; features a four story structure with two main divisions utilizing a T shaped floor plan, entrance covered rampway with a gabled roof, horizontal clapboard siding, a...
- Idaho Springs (Colo.)--1950-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Idaho Springs--1950-1970.
- [between 1951 and 1961]
- New Windsor Hotel, Silver Plume
- The New Windsor Hotel is in Silver Plume, Colorado. Prior to being the New Windsor Hotel (1902), this property was the Windsor Hotel, both of which were owned and operated by the Lampshire family. The New Windsor hotel features two stories, a...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Silver Plume--1900-1910.; New Windsor Hotel (Silver Plume, Colo.)
- [between 1902 and 1910]
- Danny Daniel's cell
- Interior metal balcony tops the ground floor cells in the State Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado. Blood covers the floor and wadded bedding on the floor. This cell is where Danny Daniels killed his three co- conspirators and then himself,...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Interiors.; Prison riots--Colorado--Canon City--1920-1930.; Colorado State Penitentiary.
- 1929
- Mesa Verde, excavating
- The dirt floor and small ring in Pithouse C are shown from the north side. A pile of stones on the far side of the pithouse forms a small wall topped by a piece of wood lying flat across it. Additional pieces of wood protrude from the floor of the...
- Mesa Verde National Park (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Step House (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Pit dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.; Archaeological sites--Colorado--1920-1930.; Cliff dwellings--Colorado--1920-1930.
- [1926?]
- Temple Court Bldg., Denver
- Exterior view of the Temple-Court Building located at 15th (Fifteenth) and California Streets, Denver, Colorado; street level businesses include Hext Music Company (pianos and organs), Columbian Optical Company, Trunk Factory, and Denver Corset...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver-- 1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1915]
- 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
- Toll Gate Saloon, near Blackhawk
- Front view of the Toll Gate Saloon, Black Hawk, Colorado. The single-detached building includes: three stories, square building plan, medium gable, offset right, left and right rear chimneys (single stacks), a shed dormer to the rear. First...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Bars--Colorado--Blackhawk--1940-1950.
- June, 1941
- Bank block with new Victor Hotel
- Exterior view of Bank block with "new" Victor Hotel, Fourth (4th) Street & Victor Avenue, Victor, Colorado; a semi-detached, rectangular stone & brick building, four stories (constructed in 1899), with load bearing tan brick walls with basement...
- Victor (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Hotels--Colorado--Victor--1960-1970.
- [1965]
- Snetzer's Tailor Shop, Georgetown, Colorado
- Exterior view of the tailor shop of Jacob Snetzer, Georgetown, Colorado, at Taos and Fifth Street, looking east. The building is of wood construction, with a false front with an elaborate cornice; there are three windows with decorative arches over...
- Snetzer, Jacob--Homes & haunts.; Georgetown (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Tailor shops--Colorado--Georgetown--1870-1900.
- 1942
- "See Ronald, this is the town where they advertise faces on the floor" [art original].
- Teller House (Central City, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking establishments)--Colorado.; Ink painting, American.; Central City (Colo.)--Caricatures and cartoons.; Cartoons.
- [n.d.]
- Stevens School students cleaning
- Photograph of three girls from Stevens Elementary School in Denver, Colorado, hand moping a wooden floor at the school. All three of the girls clean the floor in front of a play house. Two girls on kneeling on the floor near a metal buck and...
- Stevens School (Denver, Colo.); Congress Park (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood); Schools--Colorado--Denver.; Denver Public Schools--Archives.; Public schools--Colorado--Denver.
- undated
- Capitol Hill Neighborhood Plan
- Denver Municipal Facts: Volume 3 Number 42, 1911 October 14
- South elevation of first floor sunroom [and] 3/4" scale details of first floor sun room additions and alterations to residence of H.H. Tammen Esq., 1061 Humboldt St., Denver, Colo.
- This item (1 of 117) is from Frank E. Edbrooke's Architectural Drawing 1888-1926 collection (C MSS WH1537). This drawing shows floorplan and elevation details for addition of first floor sunroom at 1061 Humboldt Street, North Capitol Hill...
- Tammen, Harry Heye, 1856-1924--Homes & haunts.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; North Capitol Hill Neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Sunspaces--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- 1919 July 7
- First floor California Building
- This item (1 of 117) is from Frank E. Edbrooke's Architectural Drawing 1888-1926 collection (C MSS WH1537). This drawing shows floorplan for first floor of the California Building (Seventeenth and California Streets, Central Business District,...
- Central Business District (Denver, Colo.); Denver (Colo.); Buildings--Colorado--Denver.; Blickensderfer, J.; California Building (Denver, Colo.)
- [19--?]