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Date added: December 16, 2018; Modified: August 4, 2023
The Works Progress Administration built a combination auditorium-gymnasium for the school in Aguilar. The structure was built of native limestone. It is located at the south end of the educational campus in Aguilar that includes the elementary school, on the… read more
Date added: July 9, 2015; Modified: August 4, 2023
The WPA constructed this now-abandoned bridge just west of Trinidad Lake in 1936. From History Colorado: The bridge spans Reilly Creek as part of an abandoned segment of Colo. Hwy. 12. It includes three separate spans over the creek and… read more
Date added: April 10, 2016; Modified: July 31, 2023
This stone stadium was built by the WPA in 1942. The stadium hosts school sports and community events. The Lamar School District wants to demolish and replace the structure, due to the cost it would take to restore the existing… read more
Date added: January 18, 2015; Modified: July 24, 2023
The federal Works Progress Administration (WPA) financed construction of a water works plant for the town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado. Part of the plant houses the San Juan Historical Society Museum. Free water is still offered from a spigot along… read more
Date added: May 1, 2013; Modified: July 24, 2023
“The three-story Italian Renaissance Revival style building was constructed as a post office in 1918. James A. Wetmore served as the supervisory architect. The walls are of Indiana limestone, and the tall first floor windows are set in rounded arches…. read more
Date added: December 31, 2018; Modified: July 15, 2023
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) built a county jail in Montrose, CO. The two-story structure was built of store quarried locally. The federal expenditure was $18,514. Local sponsors contributed an additional $9,348. While not still in use the building, which… read more
Date added: July 14, 2023; Modified: July 14, 2023
The historic and distinctive post office in Lamar, Colorado was constructed as a New Deal project, with federal Public Works Administration (PWA) funds. HistoryColorado.org: “Built in 1936, it is the only remaining post office of its type in Colorado. The… read more
Date added: August 7, 2022; Modified: July 13, 2023
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant of $49,090 for a new high school for the town of Idaho Springs, Colorado. Total cost of the school, which was constructed in 1937, was $109,885. The school is a 2-story brick… read more
Date added: July 4, 2014; Modified: July 4, 2023
Mesa Verde National Park was signed into existence by Teddy Roosevelt in 1906. Its goal is “to protect some of the best-preserved cliff dwellings in the world.” Occupying roughly 80 square miles in southwestern Colorado, the park features “numerous ruins… read more
Date added: April 25, 2013; Modified: March 13, 2023
“The Saddlehorn Caretaker’s Residence and Garage are located at the intersection of Rim Rock Drive and Saddlehorn Loop Road, approximately 5 miles from the west entrance of Colorado National Monument. Both buildings are rectangular, one-story structures designed by the National… read more
Date added: April 21, 2013; Modified: February 13, 2023
Originally the Adams County Courthouse. “The 1906 Adams County Courthouse is an excellent local example of the Classical Revival style. The courthouse exhibits such key elements as a prominent pedimented portico with Tuscan columns, pilasters, and keystones in the window… read more
Date added: April 13, 2016; Modified: November 22, 2022
An elementary school and high school, plus a gymnasium, were constructed by the New Deal for the rural settlement of Kim, Colorado. The work was undertaken by three different New Deal agencies over a period of 8 years, 1933 to… read more
Date added: April 30, 2013; Modified: November 22, 2022
Believed to be presently abandoned, this historic rural school is located at the intersection of County roads 191 and 30, southwest of Kim, Colorado. “Built in 1921 and expanded in 1936 under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), the school exemplifies… read more
Date added: August 16, 2022; Modified: September 19, 2022
The Public Works Administration (PWA) provided a grant that covered about half the cost of building a new high school in Paonia CO in 1938-39. The school closed when a new high school was constructed in the neighboring town of… read more
Date added: September 4, 2022; Modified: September 4, 2022
The Colorado-Big Thompson Project (C-BTP) is a massive water storage and transfer project for agriculture, cities and power generation. It involves dams and reservoirs on the west side of the Rocky Mountains’ Front Range to collect water from the upper… read more