by Meg Dunn | Sep 6, 2018 | Fort Collins, Historic Landmarks, Historic Preservation, Renovations & Razes
Ginger and Baker Friends of Preservation 2018 On Tuesday, August 21st, the Landmark Preservation Commission hosted their 34th annual Friends of Preservation awards. Ginger and Baker was one of the recipients. What follows is the introduction I read before Jack and...
by Meg Dunn | Apr 17, 2018 | Estes Park, Historic Landmarks, Museums & Historic Sites
“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...
by Meg Dunn | Feb 15, 2018 | Historic Landmarks, Loveland, Renovations & Razes
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,...
by Meg Dunn | Nov 13, 2017 | Architecture & Neighborhoods, Historic Landmarks, Loveland, Renovations & Razes
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...
by Meg Dunn | Apr 29, 2017 | Architecture & Neighborhoods, Historic Landmarks, Then and Now
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...
by Meg Dunn | Apr 20, 2017 | Architecture & Neighborhoods, Historic Landmarks
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...
