Denver Public Library Western History/Genealogy Digital Collections

- Morrato Block
- Bliss House
- McNulty House
- Smith House
- Spangler House
- Voorhees House
- Twitchell Building, Salida
- View of the Twitchell Building at 101 North F Street in Salida (Chaffee County), Colorado. The building is decorated, with simple straight lines and white trim, segmental arched bays accented by radiating voussoirs and stone sills. Letters carved...
- Twitchell Building (Salida, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Salida (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Commercial facilities.; Jewelry stores.; Twitchell Building (Salida, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Commercial buildings--Colorado--Salida--Pictorial works.; Jewelry...
- 1989
- New Terrace
- View of New Terrace (c. 1888) at 900-914 East Twentieth (20th) Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a part of the facade of the eight unit building which faces the street. The two-story brick building is in the Queen...
- New Terrace (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Five Points (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Apartment houses.; New Terrace (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--Pictorial works.; Denver...
- 1976
- Ghost building
- View of an entrance to the Ghost Building (1889; William Lang, architect) at 512 Fifteenth (15th) Street in the Central Business District of Denver, Colorado. Shows a double-door entryway to the Romanesque Revival-style granite building prior to...
- Ghost building (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Central Business District (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Commercial facilities.; Doors & doorways.; Historic buildings.; Ghost building (Denver, Colo.)--Pictorial works.;...
- 1976
- 1436 Market Street
- View of a vacant three story commercial building (ca. 1890) located at 1436 Market Street in the Union Station neighborhood (Lower Downtown Historic District / LoDo), Denver, Colorado. The building has a shaped parapet, an elaborate Italianate...
- Straser Candy Co. (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1970-1980.; Denver (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Lower Downtown (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Union Station neighborhood (Denver, Colo.)--1970-1980.; Commercial facilities.; Straser Candy Co. (Denver,...
- 1977
- Former Arapahoe County Courthouse
- View of the former Arapahoe County Courthouse, under renovation to become the Littleton Municipal Courthouse, at 2069 West Littleton Boulevard, Littleton (Arapahoe County), Colorado. The two story Mission Revival style building is constructed of...
- Littleton Municipal Courthouse (Littleton, Colo.)--1990-2000.; Littleton (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Courthouses.; Littleton Municipal Courthouse (Littleton, Colo.)--Pictorial works.; Courthouses--Colorado--Littleton--Pictorial works.; Littleton...
- 1999
- Colorado Springs Exchange
- View of the Colorado Telephone Company exchange office in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado; features include ornate brick, voussoirs, a cornice, and terra cotta garlands. Bicycles, a wagon, and a man are by the building.
- Colorado Telephone Company--Buildings--1890-1900.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1890-1900.
- 1899, March 7
- Colorado Springs Exchange
- View of the Colorado Telephone Company exchange office in Colorado Springs (El Paso County), Colorado; features include ornate brick, voussoirs, a cornice, and terra cotta garlands. Bicycles, a wagon, and a man are by the building.
- Colorado Telephone Company--Buildings--1900-1910.; Colorado Springs (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Office buildings--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.; Telephone companies--Colorado--Colorado Springs--1900-1910.
- 1904, April
- Y.M.C.A. building
- Exterior view of Young Men's Christian Association (Y.M.C.A.) building, East 16th (Sixteenth) Avenue and Lincoln Street, Denver, Colorado. The Commercial style building has a flat roof, bracketed cornice, voussoirs above first floor windows, flag...
- Young Men's Christian Association (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1920.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Young Men's Christian associations--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [between 1907 and 1915?]
- Broadway Hotel
- View of the Hotel Broadway near Broadway and 15th (Fifteenth) Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. The hotel has arched, bay and square windows, a decorated frieze, awnings, pyramidal roof atop a parapet, rounded buttresses and voussoirs lie...
- Hotel Broadway (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Hotels--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1925?]
- Glouchester [sic] Cathedral
- A view of Gloucester Cathedral in Gloucester, England. Shows a Gothic style building with tracery around windows, spires, towers and buttresses. A later addition to the building with voussoirs windows is seen attached to the cathedral. Sheep graze...
- Gloucester Cathedral--1890-1910.; Gloucester (England)--1890-1910.; Anglican churches--England--Gloucester--1890-1910.; Cathedrals--England--Gloucester--1890-1910.
- [between 1890 and 1910?]
- Ninth Street School. Leadville, Colo.
- Boys, girls, young men and women stand, sit or play in front of the Ninth Street School, located between Poplar and Hemlock streets, in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. The two story brick building has an arched door with voussoirs and a...
- Leadville (Colo.)--1890-1900.; School children.; Schools.; Students.
- [between 1890 and 1900?]
- Colo. Nat'l Bank & Trust Co.
- View of the facade of the Colorado Bank and Trust Company, Longmont, Colorado, shows the two-story brick building with corbelling, four second story windows with radiatoring voussoirs and keystones and large first floor windows. The bank name is on...
- Longmont (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Banks--Colorado--Longmont--1920-1930.
- 1926 November 23
- Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Tutt and Penrose Building, South Third (3rd) Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado prior to 1896 fires; the two-story commercial flat-roof brick building is shared by three street-level businesses with separate entries and signs: "3rd...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Restaurants--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1894 and 1896]
- Imperial Hotel, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of restored Imperial Hotel, 123 North Third (3rd) Street, Cripple Creek, Colorado; single detached three-story rectangular flat roof brick commercial building, ground or first floor stair with simple railing leading to recessed entry,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1970-1980.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1970-1980.; Imperial Hotel (Cripple Creek, Colo.)
- [between 1970 and 1980]
- Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Bell Brothers remodeled building with adjacent Teller County District Number Two (2) firehouse and garage, East Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; first floor of Bell Brothers building has wooden paneled garage door and...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1980-1990.
- [1988]
- Midland Terminal Railway station, Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Front view of Midland Terminal Railway station, constructed in 1896, Cripple Creek, Colorado; the two-story brick building has a stone foundation and/or basement, corbel coursework between basement and second- story windows, gabled roof with...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1910.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1910.; Midland Terminal Railway.
- [between 1896 and 1910]
- Teller County Court House
- Exterior view of Teller County Court House erected in 1904, 101- 105 W. Bennett, Cripple Creek, Colorado; this two-story flemish-bond brick building has a natural stone foundation and/or basement, quoins, double- wide recessed entryway in center...
- Teller County Court House (Cripple Creek, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Courthouses--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1980-1990.
- 1988?
- Street scene, Cripple Creek
- Row of four attached one and two-story wooden frame buildings in the business district on Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, the buildings have gable and flat-roofs, plain boxed cornice, falsefronts, double-sash windows with arch radiating voussoirs,...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Business districts--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [1895]
- National Hotel, Cripple Creek, Colorado, on the Gold Belt Line
- View of National Hotel built in 1896, corner 4th (fourth) and East Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek, Colorado; the five-story stone and brick commercial building has a hip roof, 150 rooms, quoins, double-wide recessed arch entryways with radiating...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Hotels--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.
- [between 1960 and 1970]
- Midland Terminal Station, Cripple Creek
- Exterior view of Cripple Creek District Museum (formerly Midland Terminal Railway Station), Cripple Creek, Colorado; building was constructed in 1896, closed in 1949 after railroad halted operations, and reopened in 1953 as a private nonprofit...
- Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Galleries & museums--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1960-1970.; Railroad stations--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1960-1970.
- 1969 December 17
- Alamosa
- The Manders Building, on the corner of San Juan and Main streets, in Alamosa, Colorado is a two-story building, constructed in 1891, with rusticated stone block, bracketed enriched cornice, corner entry with double wooden panel with large glass...
- Alamosa (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Alamosa--1890-1900.; Streets--Colorado--Alamosa--1890-1900.
- [between 1891 and 1900]
- Chamber of Commerce building, Denver
- Chamber of Commerce building, 1726 Champa, Denver, Colorado, is five stories with a penthouse, arched entrance with voussoirs, storefront windows, columns with ionic capitals; Lady Justice on a cartouche, wreaths, and torches. Signs read: "Business...
- Denver (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Chambers of commerce--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.; Office buildings--Colorado--Denver--1910-1920.
- [1910]
- Weld County Court House
- Weld County Courthouse in Greeley, Colorado, has Classical Revival features: four stories, columns with Corinthian capitols, pediments, radiating voussoirs, central rooftop clock and flag pole.
- Greeley (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Greeley--1910-1920.
- [between 1910 and 1920]
- Capitol Apartments
- View of the Capitol Apartments in Denver, Colorado, at 1345-1351 Grant Avenue; features include classical porticos with columns and balconies, brick with stone voussoirs, and dormers.
- Capitol Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Buttercourt Apartments Colfax at Pearl
- View of the Buttercourt Apartments in Denver, Colorado, at Colfax and Pearl Streets; features include brick quoins, stone voussoirs, and a gated courtyard. A tower is drawn in the background.
- Buttercourt Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Buttercourt Apartments Colfax at Pearl
- View of the Buttercourt Apartments in Denver, Colorado, at Colfax and Pearl Streets; features include brick quoins, stone voussoirs, and balconies. Girls stand at the courtyard gate.
- Buttercourt Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Capitol Apartments - 1345-51 Grant St.
- View of the Capitol apartments at 1345-51 Grant Street in Denver, Colorado; features include stone voussoirs, balconies, and entries with columns.
- Capitol Apartments (Denver, Colo.)--1910-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Apartment houses--Colorado--Denver--1910-1930.
- [between 1910 and 1930?]
- Bankers Trust Company
- View of Bankers Trust Company, 724 Seventeenth (17th), Denver, Colorado, shows cast bronze doors with flanking lamps and windows with transoms and voussoirs. Signs read: "Saving And Checking Accounts, Complete Trust Service, Municipal And...
- Bankers Trust Company (Denver, Colo.)--1920-1930.; Denver (Colo.)--1920-1930.; Banks--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1920-1930.
- [1921]
- Cheyenne County Court House, Cheyenne Wells, Colo.
- View of the 1911 brick two and a half story Cheyenne County Courthouse, Colorado, by architect John J. Huddart; features hip roof with dormers, brick pilasters, voussoirs with keystones, stone sills and cornice above transomed entry door.
- Cheyenne Wells (Colo.)--1910-1920.; Courthouses--Colorado--Cheyenne Wells--1910-1920.
- [1911]
- Cheyenne County courthouse completed Mar. 11, 1909
- View towards the Cheyenne County Courthouse, Cheyenne, Colorado, shows the World War One Memorial with concrete walkway in foreground. The stone memorial with eagle on top reads: "1914, 1919, Honor Roll, W. E. Comfort, E. D. Waltman, L. M. Schaff,...
- Cheyenne Wells (Colo.)--1910-1930.; Courthouses--Colorado--Cheyenne Wells--1910-1930.; Monuments & memorials--Colorado--Cheyenne Wells--1910-1930.
- [between 1919 and 1925]
- Colo. City Vol. Hose Co. in running postion
- Colorado City Hose Team are harnessed to their hose cart with flexed muscles outside the fire station, South 26th (twenty-sixth) Street at Cucharas, El Paso County, Colorado. The captain in a light colored turleneck sweater and long pants stands in...
- Colorado City (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Colorado City--1900- 1910.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Colorado City--1900-1910.
- 1901
- Arvada school
- Exterior of the early Arvada brick school, 5650 Wadsworth Boulevard, Jefferson County, Colorado, includes students and teacher on entry stairs in front of the brick building. Shown are: Miss Nettie E. Stilling, teacher; Clara Swadley, Mary Juchem....
- Arvada (Colo.)--1880-1890.; School children--Colorado--Arvada--1880-1890.; Schools--Colorado--Arvada--1880-1890.
- [between 1880 and 1880]
- Crested Butte, Colorado, Jacob Kochevar residence
- Detail of an entry door in a painted brick house, Crested Butte, Gunnison County, Colorado; shows a wood panel door with arched glass panes and a transom; arched double hung windows with brick voussoirs.
- Crested Butte (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Doors & doorways--Colorado--Crested Butte--1960-1970.
- [between 1960 and 1965]
- Canon City, Colorado
- A brick and stone commercial building in Canon City, Colorado, has a corner entry, radiating voussoirs on second floor windows, and a bracketed cornice. Sheetmetal, neon, and channel letter signs read "Helm (s) Drugs;" and "(Goo)dwill Store." An...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1960-1970.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.; Drugstores--Colorado--Canon City--1960-1970.
- [between 1965 and 1970?]
- Methodist church
- A brick Methodist church in Canon City, Colorado, has an angular, gambrel line, with crossed gables, finials, arched windows with stone sills and voussoirs, half-timbering on the doors, and a stone foundation. The transom and stained glass have...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Methodist churches--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- [between 1872 and 1880?]
- Methodist church, Canon City
- This brick Methodist church in Canon City, Colorado, has an angular, gambrel line, finials, arched windows with stone sills and voussoirs, half-timbering on the doors, and a stone foundation. The transom and stained glass have rosettes, and an...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Methodist churches--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- [between 1873 and 1880?]
- Stagecoach
- Men, women, and children ride a stagecoach with a four horse team in Canon City, Colorado. Stagecoach features ornate flourishes, lamps, and a roof rail; boy with a baby donkey stands by the wheel. Brick Methodist Church has stone, angular...
- Canon City (Colo.)--1870-1880.; Churches--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.; Stagecoaches--Colorado--Canon City--1870-1880.
- [between 1873 and 1880?]
- Congress Park Fire Station #15
- View of Denver Fire Department Station No. 15 at 1080 Clayton Street in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The stone building has quoins, voussoirs, and a gable. Firemen pose in fire trucks.
- Denver (Colo.). Fire Department.--Buildings--1930-1940.; Congress Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Fire...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Denver Fire Dept 11th & Clayton
- View of Station No. 15 of the Denver Fire Department at 1080 Clayton Street in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The stone building has quoins, voussoirs, and a gable. Firemen pose in horse-drawn fire pump wagons.
- Denver (Colo.). Fire Department.--Buildings--1900-1910.; Horse-drawn vehicles--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Congress Park (Denver, Colo.)--1900-1910.; Denver (Colo.)--1900-1910.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1900-1910.; Fire...
- [between 1903 and 1910?]
- Congress Park Fire Station #15
- View of Station No. 15 of the Denver Fire Department located at 1080 Clayton Street in the Congress Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The stone building has quoins, voussoirs, and a gable. Firemen pose near fire trucks.
- Denver (Colo.). Fire Department.--Buildings--1930-1940.; Congress Park (Denver, Colo.)--1930-1940.; Denver (Colo.)--1930-1940.; Fire engines & equipment--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Fire fighters--Colorado--Denver--1930-1940.; Fire...
- [between 1930 and 1940?]
- Leaving Silverton to asend Kindel Mtn
- View of a group of excursionists in Silverton, Colorado. Mounted on horses and burros, this group of mostly children poses in their poke bonnets and dresses, ready to ascend Mount Kendall. Men are on horses; an older woman stands in a dark dress....
- Mears, Otto, 1840-1931--Homes & haunts.; Silverton (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Children--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--Colorado--Silverton--1890-1900.
- [1890?]
- Castle Rock, Colorado
- View of the Castle Cafe, a restaurant at 403 Wilcox Street (at 4th - fourth), in Castle Rock (Douglas County), Colorado. The ashlar stone building has voussoirs, a cornice and a neon sign that reads: "Castle Cafe Bar." The Castle Rock formation,...
- Castle Cafe (Castle Rock, Colo.)--2000-2010.; Castle Rock (Colo.)--1990-2000.; Castle Rock (Douglas County, Colo. : Rock formation)--1990-2000.; Business districts--Colorado--Castle Rock--1990-2000.; Restaurants--Colorado--Castle Rock--1990-2000.;...
- between 1996 and 1998
- 18th and Welton Street, Denver
- View of the Schaefer Building (built 1912 as Hotel Elgin) at the corner of 18th (Eighteenth) and Welton Streets in downtown Denver, Colorado. Blind arches with voussoirs are on the second floor; first floor storefront business signs read:...
- Civic Center (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1980-2000.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-2000.; Business districts--Colorado--Denver--1980-2000.; Commercial facilities--Colorado--Denver--1980-2000.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1980-2000.
- [between 1985 and 1993?]
- Boulevard Public School, 2351 Federal Boulevard, Denver
- View of Boulevard Public School at 2351 Federal Boulevard, in the Sloan Lake Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The three story brick building has arched windows and doors, voussoirs, and a cupola.
- Boulevard School (Denver, Colo.)--1980-1990.; Denver (Colo.)--1980-1990.; Sloan Lake (Denver, Colo. : Neighborhood)--1980-1990.; Schools--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.; Streets--Colorado--Denver--1980-1990.
- 1982 June