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Pikes Peak Library District (PPLD) is a nationally recognized system of public libraries serving a population of more than 650,000 across 2,070 square miles in El Paso County, Colorado. Pikes Peak Library District has resources for children, teens, adults, and seniors.
Andrew Carnegie donated $60,000 for the construction of the library. One side of the library is semi-circular with a continuous ornamental balcony and a view of Pikes Peak and the Rocky Mountains. The building is made of granite, gray Tennessee marble, Breche Violette marble, sandstone and Roman-shaped gray hydraulic press brick. Inside the ...
Images of Colonel John H. Bacon's Ivywild property (1890-1900), Denver Public Library: Colorado Midland Railway engine and cars through Ivywild, Pikes Peak Library District: Ivywild after the May 1935 flood, Pikes Peak Library District: South entrance to Colorado Springs, Ivywild sign in lower left (1965), Pikes Peak Library District
In 1904, a new library on West Pikes Peak Avenue was opened, thanks to a gift from Andrew Carnegie. When Colorado City was annexed to the city of Colorado Springs in 1917, the library board of directors sold its invested rights and interests to the Colorado Springs Public Library for $1, and it became the West End Branch.
Between 1960 and 1970 divisions of Cheyenne Mountain, Elmere, Black Forest-Peyton, Fountain, Pikes Peak and Monument were annexed into Colorado Springs, resulting in an increased population of 37,500 by 1970. [80] Broadmoor and Skyway were annexed, without a vote of its residents, before the state's Poundstone Amendment (1974) was enacted. [81]
Prior to the construction of the stone "Bridge over Fountain Creek" over Old Man's Trail, there was a bridge constructed to deliver visitors to the Manitou House Hotel. The hotel, the first in Manitou Springs, was built by William Jackson Palmer and William Abraham Bell , who had founded the resort town. [ 6 ] (
Cascade Canon, Pikes Peak Region series of photographs, Charles S. Lee, 1893. Hotel Ramonda is in the lower left hand corner. Cascade Canon, William H. Walker, 1889-1890. Western Collection, Denver Public Library Carriage Road - Pikes Peak series of photographs - Charles S. Lee -
Racing in the Pikes Peak Region included 19th century horse tracks (e.g., to the west of Colorado Springs' Palmer House along Fountain Creek by 1882 [4] and to the north by 1903, the "Roswell Racing Park"), [5] and the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb started in 1916 on the 1915 Pikes Peak Highway.