Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Landmark Designation Application for Clarence Holmes' residence.
- Delaney Carriage Company Building
- Zook Building
- View of the Zook Building at 435 West Colfax in the Central Business District neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Built in 1891, this three story brick flat-iron shaped building has two wrought-iron balconies on the southwest side of the building and...
- Zook Building (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Commercial facilities.; Zook Building (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Commercial buildings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial...
- 1976
- Holy Ghost Repair Service, Inc.
- View of Planet Jerusalem Coffee House and The Paraclete Book Store at 907-909 East Colfax Avenue in the North Capitol Hill Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one story commercial Mission Revival style building was constructed in 1926. The...
- Planet Jerusalem Coffee House (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Paraclete (Book store : Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Coffeehouses.; Bookstores.; Planet Jerusalem Coffee House...
- 1974
- Greater Park Hill Community, Inc.
- View of the non-profit Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. at 2823 Fairfax Street in the North Park Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one story brick commercial style building has a decorative dogtooth course. The structure has large front...
- Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Public service organizations.; Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 1978
- Ex-Servicemen's Club
- View of the Ex-Servicemen's at 2623-2627 Welton Street in the Five Points Neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The two story commercial style building has a brick and stucco exterior. The second story has small square and rectangle windows in a brick...
- Ex Servicemen's Club (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Clubs.; Ex-Servicemen's Club (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; African American...
- 1976
- First Christian Reformed Church, Denver
- View of First Christian Reformed Church (1908) at 1814 South Emerson Street in the Platt Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the symmetrically balanced elevation of the blond brick church. Significant features include a large round arch...
- Christian Reformed Church--Buildings--2000-2010.; First Christian Reformed Church (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Platt Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Churches.; Christian Reformed Church--Buildings--Pictorial works.;...
- 2007
- Palace Hotel, Antonito, Colo.
- View of the Palace Hotel and Nabor's Barber Shops at 433 and 429 Main Street in Antonito (Conejos County), Colorado. The Palace Hotel is a two-story brick building with a rhyolite front with metal kick plates and transom windows on the first...
- Palace Hotel (Antonito, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Antonito Variety (Antonito, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Nabor's Barber Shop (Antonito, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Antonito (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hotels.; Variety stores.; Barbershops.; Palace Hotel (Antonito,...
- 1978
- Main Street, Antonito, Colo.
- View of Main Street Antonito, Colorado from the corner of 5th Street and Main Street looking south. Shows the Palace Hotel, businesses and street lights. The brick hotel has a rhyolite front with metal kick plates and transom windows on the first...
- Palace Hotel (Antonito, Colo.)--1970-1980.; San Antonio Mountain (Rio Arriba County, N.M.)--1970-1980.; Antonito (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hotels.; Commercial streets.; Palace Hotel (Antonito, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 1978
- Sopp & Truscott Bakery Silver Plume
- View of the Sopp & Truscott Bakery at 1010 Main Street in Silver Plume (Clear Creek County), Colorado. The one and a half story building has wooden siding and a large square tower with two pediments and decorative brackets that houses the public...
- Sopp & Truscott Bakery (Silver Plume, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Silver Plume (Colo.)--2010-2020.; Bakeries.; Sopp & Truscott Bakery (Silver Plume, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bakeries--Colorado--Silver Plume--Pictorial works.; Silver Plume...
- 2010
- Highland Tavern
- View of the entrance to the Highland Tavern at 3400 Navajo Street in the Highland Neighborhood, Denver Colorado. The building is a single story red brick structure with large windows facing an outdoor seating area. A sign above the door is...
- Highland Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Highland (Denver, Colo.)--2010-2020.; Denver (Colo.)--2010-2020.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Highland Tavern (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking...
- 2010
- Rifle Post Office, Rifle, Colo.
- View of the Rifle Post Office located at the southeastern corner of Railroad Avenue and East 4th Street, Rifle, Colorado. The one-story red brick Colonial Revival style post office has standing brass and copper lanterns standing next to the granite...
- Rifle Post Office (Rifle, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Post office buildings--Colorado--Rifle--1990-2000.; Rifle (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Rifle Post Office (Rifle, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Post office buildings--Colorado--Rifle--Pictorial works.; Rifle...
- 1998
- Entrance, Denver Turnverein also known as the German House
- View of the front entrance of the Denver Turnverein (1921; George L. Bettcher, architect), also known as the German House, a German social and athletic club, at 1570 Clarkson Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The...
- Denver Turnverein (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Clubs.; Doors & doorways.; Denver Turnverein (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--Pictorial works.;...
- 2006
- Denver Turnverein also known as the German House
- View of the Denver Turnverein (1921; George L. Bettcher, architect), also known as the German House, a German social and athletic club, at 1570 Clarkson Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The Spanish revival style...
- Denver Turnverein (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; North Capitol Hill (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Clubs.; Denver Turnverein (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--Pictorial works.; Clubs--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.;...
- 2006
- Dutch Boy Donuts
- View of Dutch Boy Donuts at 6640 East Colfax Avenue in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This one-story brick commercial building has a corner entrance. The entrance has a transom window. A neon-on-metal sign on the side of the...
- Dutch Boy Donuts (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Bakeries.; Electric signs.; Dutch Boy Donuts (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bakeries--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Neon...
- ca. 1980
- Brooklyn's at Invesco Field
- View of Brooklyn's at Invesco Field in the J. Solf Building (1896) at 2644 West Colfax Avenue in the Valverde neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The two-story Queen Anne-style commercial building has a flat roof and a corner entry with a transom...
- Brooklyn's at Invesco Field (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--2000-2010.; Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Valverde (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Historic buildings.; Restaurants.; Brooklyn's at Invesco Field (Denver,...
- 2000
- 841 Galapago Street
- View of 841 Galapago Street (1891; Baerresen Brothers, architects) in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a two-story red brick single-family residence with a rough-faced stone facade. The building has a flat roof, a...
- Denver (Colo.)--2000-2010.; Lincoln Park (Denver, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Houses.; Dwellings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver (Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Lincoln Park (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.
- 2009
- 1558 Monroe Street
- View of 1558 Monroe Street located in the City Park neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. This post-modern interpretation of the neighborhood's traditional style houses features a prominent front gable with an off-center octagonal window, and rustic...
- Morris, Tom, architect--Homes & haunts.; City Park (Denver, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Houses.; Morris, Tom, architect--Homes and haunts.; Dwellings--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; City Park (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial...
- 1991
- O'Neill Hotel
- View of the O'Neill Hotel and the Tender Trap Restaurant at 1407 Stout Street in the Central Business District, Denver, Colorado. This three-story Art Deco style brick building has brick coursing on the first story. The first story windows have a...
- O'Neill Hotel (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Tender Trap Restaurant (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Restaurants--1990-2000.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hotels.; O'Neill Hotel (Denver,...
- 1976
- The Huddle Inn
- View of the Huddle Inn at 7036 East Colfax Avenue in the Montclair neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The one story brick building has a stucco finish on the sides. Large front display windows have been covered in wood panels. The building has...
- Huddle Inn (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Montclair (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Bars (Drinking establishments); Electric signs.; Huddle Inn (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Bars (Drinking...
- 1976
- Denver, Colorado, buildings, 1421 Champa St., interior, traffic & employment office, 1st floor
- View of the traffic and employment office at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company building located at 1421 Champa Street, Denver, Colorado. Shows desks, chairs, tables, a couch, and mirror. Drapes cover the windows and transom...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Buildings--1940-1950.; Denver (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.; Offices--Colorado--Denver--1940-1950.
- 1942 August 25
- York interior, operator's rest room
- View of the lounge room for operators at the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company exchange building on York Street in Denver, Colorado. The room is filled with mission style furniture including chairs, tables, and book shelves. Ferns sit...
- Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company--Facilities--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Interiors--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Lounges--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- 1915
- House in Leadville, Colorado
- This view of a weathered residence on West Third Street in Leadville, Colorado features a one story wood frame house with front gable and low bracketed mansard roofs on a projecting bay with four windows, a covered entry door and a decorative...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1942
- Jesse McDonald's home on W. 7th St.
- This view of Jesse McDonald's home on West Seventh Street in Leadville, Colorado shows a large two-story clapboard structure with multi- gabled roofs, decorative fish-scale shingles, a front porch, brick chimneys, several large one sash and transom...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1940-1950.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1940-1950.
- 1968
- John & Ann Pitts' home on 225 W. 8th St.
- This exterior snowy view of John and Ann Pitts' home at 225 West Eighth Street in Leadville, Colorado, shows the one story house with front gable, overhanging awning roofs over projecting sash front windows, an entry door with transom, three small...
- Pitts, Ann--Homes & haunts--1960-1970.; Pitts, John--Homes & haunts--1960-1970.; Leadville (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.
- 1968
- 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
- John & Ann Pitts' home on 225 W. 8th St.
- This exterior view of John and Ann Pitts' home on 225 West Eighth Street in Leadville, Colorado, captures the house after a snow. Ann stands in front the small one story house with front gable, awning roofs over three sash front windows, an entry...
- Pitts, Ann--Homes & haunts--1960-1970.; Pitts, John--Homes & haunts--1960-1970.; Leadville (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Dwellings--Colorado--Leadville--1960-1970.
- 1968
- 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]
- About 1903
- View of the Meeker Hotel lobby, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. Interior includes: taxidermied elk, antelope deer, ducks, antler plant stands, door with transom window sign: "Barber Shop," a bulletin board and stairway.
- Meeker (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1900-1910.; Interiors.; Lobbies--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Lobbies--Colorado--Meeker--1900-1910.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [between 1900 and 1905]
- Grand Imperial Hotel
- Exterior view of the Grand Imperial Hotel, in Silverton, Colorado, looking west; shows storefronts with inset doors, pilasters with acanthus capitals, stepped semicircular arches over the second floor sash windows, mansard roof, chimneys and...
- Silverton (Colo.)--1950-1960.; Hotels--Colorado--Silverton--1950-1960.; Grand Imperial Hotel (Silverton, Colo.)
- [between 1950 and 1960?]
- I. O. O. F. bldg. construction, V of series
- Fifth in a series of progress documentation views of the construction of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, Main Street, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. A workmen pauses from behind the nearly complete first floor corner of the brick...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
- [1897]
- I. O. O. F. building construction, IV of series
- Fourth in a series of progress documentation views of the construction of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows Hall, Main Street, Meeker, Rio Blanco County, Colorado. Three men stand on the floor decking on the foundation. Wood bracing hold the...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Fraternal organizations--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Independent Order of Odd Fellows.
- [1897]
- July 15, #7
- Seventh in a series of views documenting progress of the summer 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. This facade view shows brick work completed on the two story hotel with several men standing around. The wood...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- June 13, #2
- Second in a series of views documenting progress of the summer of 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. The workmen (and possibly the owner Reuben Sanford Ball) pose on the construction site. The first floor of...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- June, #8
- Eighth in a series of views documenting progress of the summer 1896 construction of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. This facade view shows the newly completed two story brick hotel. Features include: large pane windows and door...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Building construction--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1890-1900.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [1896]
- Meeker, Colo. the hotel where Roosevelt sojourned is noted for its unique foyer, the relics of hundreds of bear hunts.
- View from across the street of the Meeker Hotel, 560 Main Street, Meeker, Colorado. The two story brick building built in 1896 features: the 1904 wing additions with store fronts, large pane windows and door with arched transom windows, balcony,...
- Meeker (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Hotels--Colorado--Meeker--1910-1930.; Meeker Hotel (Meeker, Colo.)
- [between 1915 and 1925]
- Any night in the lobby, Palace Hotel, Cripple Creek
- Lobby of Palace Hotel crowded with men in hats and overcoats, Cripple Creek, Colorado; three columns extend to high ceiling in lobby, double entry door with transom.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Interiors.; Lobbies--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
- [between 1896 and 1901]
- Cripple Creek Palace Hotel
- Lobby area crowded with men in hats and overcoats, Palace Hotel, Cripple Creek, Colorado; three columns extend to high ceiling in lobby, double entry door with transom.
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Interiors.; Lobbies--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.
- [between 1896 and 1901]
- Cripple Creek, Colo. Hastings [sic] Market 1st & Bennet [sic]
- Exterior view of C. C. Irwin Groceries (formerly H. A. Hastain's Market), 135 Bennett Avenue, Bell Brothers Building, First (1st) Street and Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; three horse-drawn wagons are parked in front of building packed...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Grocery stores--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1900-1910.; Bell Brothers Building (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [1905 or 1906]
- Cripple Creek, Colo.
- Exterior view of Colorado Liquor House, Myers Avenue and Third (3rd) Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; two-story frame flat roof building has recessed corner entryway, storeroom windows with transom near double-wide entry, double-sash flat windows...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Colorado Liquor House (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [1895 or 1896]
- Cripple Creek, saloons
- Colorado Liquor House (saloon and bar), southeast corner of Myers Avenue and Third (3rd) Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; the two-story, wood frame, flat roof rectangular commercial building has recessed entryways with an arch, storeroom windows...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Bars--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- First Bank, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of A. A. Ireland Real Estate and Mining Property, building shared by Bank of Cripple Creek (also called First National Bank), Cripple Creek, Colorado; six men pose on front steps of one-story false front with shed roof wood frame...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Banks--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896]
- Minturn, Colo
- Men pose in Minturn, Eagle County, Colorado, in front of a false- fronted barber shop. The building has storefront windows and a louvered transom over the door; signs on a side extension have barber stripes. An adjacent building has a brick...
- Minturn (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Barbershops--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.; Wooden buildings--Colorado--Minturn--1890-1900.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Oberlin and Government Land Office, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Oberlin Land Office (Calvert & Stephens) and Government Land Office, Cripple Creek, Colorado; J. R. McCoun, Atty-at-Law sign attached to government building and J. R. McCoun Land Office lettered on window; ten men pose in front of...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; False fronts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Government facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1893 and 1896?]
- Rio Grande Saloon, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Rio Grande Saloon on Xenia Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; one-story wood frame commercial building with horizontal and vertical planks and a double-wide corner entry with two-sash transom, plain parapet; man with three boys (one...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Bars--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Rio Grande Saloon (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [between 1899 and 1901]
- 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]
- Elks Club
- A workman finishes some work on the side of the Elks Club, Ouray Lodge No. 492, BPOE (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks), between Fifth (5th) and Foruth (4th) Avenues, on the east side of Main Street, Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado, designed...
- Elks (Fraternal order) Lodge No. 492 (Ouray, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.
- [1904]
- Elks home, Ouray
- Exterior of the Elks Club, Ouray Lodge No. 492, BPOE, (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks), designed by E. H. Powell, and built in 1904, between Fifth (5th) and Fourth (4th) Avenues, on the east side of Main (3rd, Third) Street, Ouray, Ouray...
- Elks (Fraternal order) Lodge No. 492 (Ouray, Colo.)--1950-1980.; Ouray (Colo.)--1950-1980.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Ouray--1950-1980.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1950-1980.
- [between 1950 and 1974?]
- Elks home
- Two men pose under the projecting arched entry of the newly completed Elks Club, Ouray Lodge No. 492, BPOE, (Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks) between Fifth (5th) and Fourth (4th) Avenues, on the east side of Main Street, Ouray, Ouray...
- Elks (Fraternal order) Lodge No. 492 (Ouray, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Ouray (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fraternal lodges--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.; Streets--Colorado--Ouray--1900-1910.
- [1904 or 1905]
- Becker and Nolon block, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Becker and Nolon block building, 301 East Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; original site of Johnny Nolon Saloon and Gambling Emporium; rebuilt by Johnny Nolon and Jacob Becker after 1896 fire; this two-story flat-roof brick...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Carriages & coaches--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Medical offices--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1896 and 1900]