Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Arnett-Fullen House
- View of the Arnett-Fullen House at 646 Pearl Street in Boulder, Colorado. Two story eclectic Second Empire style house has gabled roofs, a tower, a bay window, and a covered entrance porch under a square parapet and ornate gingerbread wood work and...
- Arnett-Fullen House (Boulder, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Boulder (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Houses.; Historic buildings.; Arnett-Fullen House (Boulder, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Dwellings--Colorado--Boulder--Pictorial works.; Historic...
- 1998
- Denver flood
- View of brick and frame houses and commercial buildings in Denver and Auraria during a Cherry Creek and South Platte River flood. A brick house near the standing water of Cherry Creek has a gabled rood and gingerbread details. Signs on flooded...
- Cherry Creek (El Paso County-Denver County, Colo.)--1860-1870.; Denver (Colo.)--1860-1870.; South Platte River (Colo. and Neb.)--1860-1870.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.; Floods--Colorado--Denver--1860-1870.;...
- 1864 May 19
- Hotel Del Monte, Monterey, Cal.
- View of the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey (Monterey County), California. The large Victorian three-story clapboard structure features a steep gabled roof, dormers, balconies, spires, decorated brick chimneys, pendants, and a porch with columns and...
- Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.)--1880-1900.; Monterey (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--California--Monterey--1880-1900.; Lawns--California--Monterey--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1891?]
- Quality Hill, Silverton, Colo.
- View of frame two story houses with gambrel or mansard roofs, porches with gingerbread details, and fenced yards, and possibly St. John's Episcopal church on Snowden Street, in what is identified as "Quality Hill," an area near the base of Anvil...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1910.
- [between 1898 and 1905?]
- Central City, Colorado, looking s. west
- View of frame houses and probably commercial buildings on a hillside in Central City (Gilpin County), Colorado. Shows multi-story buildings, fallen timber on a barren hillside, a house with gingerbread details, snow on a steep slope, and mine...
- Central City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Mine buildings--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--Central City--1870-1880.
- [1873?]
- Lake City Baptist Church
- View of the Queen Anne-style Baptist Church in Lake City (Hinsdale County), Colorado. The frame cross gabled church has fishscale siding and bargeboard, a tower with a polygonal roof, leaded stained glass windows and gingerbread details over the...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1890-1920.; Baptist churches--Colorado--Lake City--1900-1910.
- [between 1891 and 1920?]
- Lake City, Colo., Baptist Church
- People pose outside the Lake City Baptist Church in Lake City (Hinsdale County), Colorado. Women and girls wear dresses, coats and decorative hats. Men and boys wear suits, overcoats and hats. The frame Queen Anne-style, cross gabled church has...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Baptist churches--Colorado--Lake City--1890-1900.; People--Colorado--Lake City--1890-1900.
- [between 1891 and 1900?]
- Baptist S.S., Lake City, Colo.
- Sunday school students and probably parents and teachers pose outside the Lake City Baptist Church in Lake City (Hinsdale County), Colorado. Women and girls wear ruffled dresses or skirts and decorative hats. Men and boys wear knickers and jackets...
- Lake City (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Baptist churches--Colorado--Lake City--1890-1900.; Sunday schools--Colorado--Lake City--1890-1900.
- 1898 November
- Monterey, Hotel Del Monte
- View of gardens at Hotel Del Monte in Monterey (Monterey County), California. Shows manicured lawns, trees, vines and paths. The Victorian three-story Hotel Del Monte has a steep gabled roof, dormers, balconies, and a porch with columns and...
- Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.)--1880-1900.; Monterey (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Gardens--California--Monterey--1880-1900.; Hotels--California--Monterey--1880-1900.; Lawns--California--Monterey--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1891]
- Monterey, Hotel Del Monte
- View of gardens and Hotel Del Monte in Monterey (Monterey County), California. Shows manicured lawns, trees, bushes, vines and paths. The Victorian Hotel Del Monte has a porch with columns, gingerbread arches, and lattice.
- Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.)--1880-1900.; Monterey (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Gardens--California--Monterey--1880-1900.; Hotels--California--Monterey--1880-1900.; Trees--California--Monterey--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1891]
- Monterey, Hotel Del Monte
- View of the Hotel Del Monte in Monterey (Monterey County), California. The large Victorian three-story clapboard structure features a steep gabled roof, dormers, balconies, spires, decorated brick chimneys, pendants, and a porch with columns and...
- Hotel Del Monte (Monterey, Calif.)--1880-1900.; Monterey (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Hotels--California--Monterey--1880-1900.; Lawns--California--Monterey--1880-1900.
- [between 1880 and 1891]
- Hotel Del Coronado
- Panoramic view of the Pacific Ocean and the frame Hotel del Coronado in Coronado (San Diego County), California. The multi-story hotel on the beach has sun porches, dormers, cupolas, gingerbread details, and an American flag atop a ten story...
- Hotel del Coronado (Coronado, Calif.)--1880-1900.; Coronado (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Pacific Ocean--1880-1900.; Beaches--California--Coronado--1800-1900.; Hotels--California--Coronado--1800-1900.; Oceans--California--Coronado--1800-1900.;...
- [between 1888 and 1900?]
- Liberty Cap and Nevada Fall
- View of the Nevada Fall waterfall on the Merced River near Grizzly Point, Yosemite National Park, California. Shows the steep walls of the granodiorite Liberty Cap beside the waterfall. A frame two story house or hotel has gingerbread trim, and a...
- Liberty Cap (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Merced River (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Nevada Fall (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1880-1900.; Buildings--California--Yosemite National Park--1880-1900.; Pedestrian bridges--California--Yosemite...
- [between 1880 and 1900?]
- AdAmAn Club
- The AdAmAn Club and press crew ready for the annual New Year's Eve climb of Pikes Peak, in Colorado Springs, El Paso County, Colorado. Shows burros, gear, some with lettering: "NBC." Shows a frame house with gingerbread, dormers, bays, a...
- AdAmAn Club (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Clubs--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1930-1940.; Donkeys--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1930-1940.; Journalists--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1930-1940.; Pack...
- 1935 December 31
- Telluride Catholic church
- View of the 1896 Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, Telluride, San Miguel, Colorado, shows a single story structure with a front gable, a gabled belfry, a wheel window, pointed bays, a projecting vestibule, and decorative gingerbread trim.
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church (Telluride, Colo.)--1930-1970.; Telluride (Colo.)--1930-1970.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Telluride--1930-1970.
- [between 1933 and 1970]
- Central City buildings
- View of a white, clapboard, one-story house with a peaked roof, and gingerbread decorations around the eaves. The house, formerly the law offices of Henry M. Teller, sits off of a street above a small, stone retaining wall. The two large,...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1955
- Central City, Colo., early 1860's
- Men pose in Central City, Colorado, by the "Recorder's Office;" a clapboard building with bargeboard and gingerbread. Eureka Street houses are in the background.
- Central City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1970?]
- House, Silver Plume
- A single story residence in Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado, features both cross gables and a flanged, hipped roof, gingerbread ornamentation, and a decorative arched window.
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Houses--Colorado--Silver Plume--1940-1950.; Mining--Colorado--Silver Plume--1940-1950.
- June 2, 1940
- 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
- Three deteriorating buildings are along a dirt road in Central City, Colorado. The first house is a one story, board-and-batten structure with a gabled roof, shingles, and gingerbread bargeboard around the eaves. It has a large, rectangular window...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Central City, 1953
- Several houses along Spring Street in Central City, Colorado, are built above a retaining wall. The house on the far left is a two story wood frame structure with a gabled roof, chimney, covered porch, rectangular windows, and a white-picket...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--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
- 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
- Central City
- Shows three historic Central City, Colorado, landmarks: Washington Hall, possibly the oldest building in Central City, Henry M. Teller's Law Offices, and William's Stables. The Hall is a two-story clapborad construction with a peaked roof,...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1955
- 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]
- 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
- Col. Geo. E. Randolph residence and Judge Witherow residence
- The gothic revival Smith house on Casey Avenue in Central City, Colorado, is built above a masonry retaining wall and is a two story structure with a steeply-pitched, gabled roof with shingles, a chimney, and bargeboard gingerbread around the...
- Randolph, Geo. E.--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Retaining walls--Colorado--Central City--1880-1890.; Witherow, Judge--Homes & haunts.
- 1888
- Houses on the Casey, Central City, 1953
- The L-shaped, clapboard, two story Sabin house is built above a masonry retaining wall on Casey Street in Central City, Colorado. It has a gabled roof, gingerbread bargeboard along the eaves, a chimney, and a covered porch with spindles along the...
- Sabin, Florence--Homes & haunts.; Sabin, Mary--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- 1953
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A corner of a clapboard house with a gabled roof, gingerbread bargeboard around the eaves and under the porch, and rectangular windows is visible above a masonry wall. The porch is supported by posts. Shadows from a tree are cast against the side...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Residence in Central City, Colorado
- A one and one-half story, clapboard house with a gabled roof, a stove pipe chimney, and gingerbread bargeboard around the eaves is built above a masonry retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. The house is painted white and has two doors and...
- Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- Sabin Home on the Casey, birthplace of Dr. Florence Sabin and Miss Mary Sabin, Central City
- The Sabin home, located on Casey Avenue in Central City, Colorado, is built above a masonry wall, through which there is a gate and steps leading to the house. The Gothic Revival house, which is partially obscured by several trees, is a simple, two...
- Sabin, Florence--Homes & haunts.; Sabin, Mary--Homes & haunts.; Sabin Family--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1920-1940.; Houses--Colorado--Central City--1920-1940.
- [between 1920 and 1940?]
- House on the Casey, Central City
- The Smith residence, a Gothic Revival house, is built above a retaining wall in Central City, Colorado. It is an L-shaped building with a gabled roof, a chimney, and gingerbread bargeboard around the eaves. The covered porch has spindles along the...
- Smith, Eben, 1832-1906--Homes & haunts.; Central City (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Buildings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Dwellings--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Central City--1950-1960.
- [1953?]
- Denver, residences
- View of brick residences on an unidentified street, Denver, Colorado. Each features decorative, gingerbread elements including finials, fish scale imbrication, detailed stone work, and ornate spindle work.
- Denver (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- F. S. Davidson, 657 Grant St.
- View of the two story residence of F. S. Davidson at 657 Grant Street, Denver, Colorado. It has gingerbread gableboard and a covered front porch.
- Denver (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1950-1960.; Davidson, F. S.--Homes & haunts.
- January, 1956
- 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
- Catholic Church
- The Catholic Church in Silver Plume, Colorado, was built in 1876, and is constructed in the Carpenter Gothic style. Its signature features include: steeply pitched roof, elaborate bargeboard design (gingerbread), arched-pointed windows, and a...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Silver Plume--1930-1950.
- [between 1935 and 1944]
- St. Patrick's
- Saint Patrick's Catholic Church, in Silver Plume, Colorado, was built in 1876, and is constructed in the Carpenter Gothic style. Its features include: steeply pitched roof, elaborate bargeboard design (gingerbread), arched-pointed windows, and in...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1930-1950.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Silver Plume--1930-1950.; Saint Patrick's Catholic Church (Silver Plume, Colo.)
- [between 1935 and 1945]
- Silver Plume
- The Catholic Church in Silver Plume, Colorado features: steeply pitched roof, elaborate bargeboard design (gingerbread), arched-pointed windows, and a center pointed doorway. The building has horizontal clapboard siding and a wheel window above...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1940-1960.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Silver Plume--1940-1960.
- [between 1945 and 1960]
- Silver Plume
- The Catholic Church in Silver Plume, Colorado features: Carpenter Gothic style, steeply pitched roof, elaborate bargeboard design (gingerbread), arched-pointed windows, and a center-pointed doorway. The building has horizontal clapboard siding and...
- Silver Plume (Colo.)--1940-1960.; Catholic churches--Colorado--Silver Plume--1940-1960.
- [between 1945 and 1960]
- Aspen residence
- View of the top half of the two story residence of Jacob Sandelowsky in Aspen, Colorado; features a Victorian building with a gabled roof with shingles, decorative ironwork, turret with a conical roof and shingles, finial, brick cornice, and a...
- Sandelowsky, Jacob--Homes & haunts.; Architecture, Victorian--Colorado--Aspen--1960-1980.; Aspen (Colo.)--1960-1980.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1960-1980.
- [between 1960 and 1980]
- Ghost house
- View of the two story Gillespie residence in Aspen, Colorado; features a wood-frame structure with multiple gables, balcony with spindles above the porch, tower with triangular dormer windows, gingerbread bargeboard, finials, and bracketed...
- Gillespie, Henry B.--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1890-1910.
- [between 1891 and 1910]
- Henry B. Gillespie residence
- View of the snow-covered two story Gillespie house in Aspen, Colorado; shows a wood-frame structure with multiple gables, balcony with spindles above the porch, tower with triangular dormer windows, gingerbread bargeboard, and finials; wrought...
- Gillespie, Henry B.--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1900-1910.
- [between 1891 and 1910]
- House of Henry Gillespie, later known as Ghost House
- View of the dilapidated Henry Gillespie house in Aspen, Colorado; features a wood frame structure with towers with triangular dormers, pediments, finials, numerous gables, finials, gingerbread ornamentation, and clapboard siding; shingles falling...
- Gillespie, Henry B.--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Aspen--1960-1970.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- Old Gillespie House
- View of the snow-covered two story Gillespie house in Aspen, Colorado; features a wood-frame structure with multiple gables, balcony with spindles above the porch, tower with triangular dormer windows, gingerbread bargeboard, and finials; wrought...
- Gillespie, Henry B.--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1900-1910.
- 1909
- Ghost house
- Evening view of the dilapidated, snow-covered Henry Gillespie house in Aspen, Colorado; features a wood frame structure with towers with triangular dormers, pediments, numerous gables, finials, gingerbread ornamentation, and clapboard siding; panes...
- Gillespie, Henry B.--Homes & haunts.; Aspen (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Building deterioration--Colorado--Aspen--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Aspen--1950-1960.
- 1951
- Creede, Colorado
- Two women sit in a mule-drawn cart in front of a house in the town of Creede, Colorado, in Mineral County. Architectural elements include clapboard siding, gables, covered porch, gingerbread decoration, window etchings, and spindles along the...
- Creede (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carts & wagons--Colorado--Creede--1890-1900.; Dwellings--Colorado--Creede--1890-1900.; Women--Colorado--Creede--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Place where salesmen displayed their goods
- A woman in a long dress and a hat walks past "Zang's Hotel Sample Room," in Creede, Colorado, in Mineral County. The building is a one- story, brick structure with gable, chimneys, quoins, gingerbread, and striped awnings over the windows. A...
- Creede (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Creede--1890-1900.
- [1895?]
- Berthoud Falls, Colo.
- A van and car are parked outside of the "Berthoud Falls Inn Bar, Cafe, Motel" in Berthoud Falls, Colorado (Clear Creek County). The stone and wood-frame, two-story building has Swiss style architecture with steep gables and gingerbread. Snow and...
- Berthoud (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Taverns (Inns)--Colorado--Berthoud--1970-1980.
- May 10, 1978
- Brownville Band, 70's
- The Terrible Silver Cornet Band, of Brownsville, Jefferson County, Colorado, was named after the Terrible mine. Men in suits and stovepipe hats pose holding a bass drum, a snare drum, bass and treble cornets, and trombones. A frame storefront in...
- Brownsville (Jefferson County, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Bands--Colorado--Brownsville--1870-1880.
- [between 1871 and 1879]
- "Lace House" - Black Hawk, 1958
- View of the Lace House, Black Hawk, Colorado, an example of Victorian Carpenter Gothic architecture with board and batten siding, steep pitched roof with finials, arched-pointed windows, elaborate one-story veranda with balustrades, and decorative...
- Blackhawk (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Houses--Colorado--Blackhawk--1950-1960.
- 1958