Ginger and Baker – Friends of Preservation 2018
There is now a sense of wonder and contentment in this building now. The precious way the materials in this historic building have been treated breathes out onto everyone inside. And that care that the Grahams took in honoring this piece of history has given it wings that will carry it forward into our future.
Jacob’s Ladder, now the Birch Ruins
“In a dream [Jacob] saw a ladder that reached from earth to heaven, and God’s angels were going up and down on it.” – Genesis 28:12 Al Birch was a reporter from the Denver Post when he first visited Estes Park. At the time, there wasn’t...
Loveland as seen from the 1886 Sanborn Map
The Sanborn Map & Publishing Company produced some of the earliest maps of our Colorado communities. In 1886/7, the company drew up a forty-one page map (plus an index page) of Denver. In comparison, Fort Collins and Greeley were granted 4-pages each. Loveland,...
Loveland’s First Performing Arts Center, the Bartholf Opera House
The town of Loveland was only six years old when, in 1883, it was announced that an opera house would be built on 4th Street. The Fort Collins Courier reported the news on November 29th: “And now Loveland is to have an opera house. Messrs Bartholf and Allen will...
A New City Hall
After World War II, Fort Collins experienced a population boom. Suburban style developments started popping up on the fringes of town… along West Mulberry, around Stover and Elizabeth, and some were even as far aways as Prospect Road. Colorado A&M was...
The Continental Oil Company Property – 225 Maple Street
If you’ve ever eaten at the FoCo Cafe, then you’ve been inside of the old local office/warehouse building of the Continental Oil Company. This unassuming building is not only home to one of Fort Collins’ most innovative lunch spots, but it’s...