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The Strater Hotel, in Durango, Colorado, is a historical hotel that opened in 1887 at the height of the American Gilded Age. [2] Among its notable guests throughout its history are President Gerald Ford, Will Rogers, writer Louis L’Amour, the Grateful Dead, and astronauts from the Apollo missions.
Main Avenue Historic District in Durango, Colorado is a 34-acre (14 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.. According to its 1980 NRHP nomination, it was deemed significant "because it represents the essence and core of both the evolution and development of business and commerce in the most important town in southwestern Colorado."
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in La Plata County, Colorado, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
You'll find kitschy shops and restaurants, gunfight reenactments at high noon, and the historic adobe Oatman Hotel, where Clark Gable and Carole Lombard honeymooned in 1939. miroslav_1/istockphoto 17.
Formed during the Gold Rush in 1904, it grew to be a bustling town of more than 10,000 people with an infamous red light district, 50 saloons, hotels, an opera house and symphony, a school for 250 ...
Colorado counties. There are more than 1,500 properties and historic districts in the U.S. State of Colorado listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They are distributed over 63 of Colorado's 64 counties; only the City and County of Broomfield currently has none.
Durango is known worldwide for the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, [citation needed] a heritage railroad that operates what was the Denver & Rio Grande Western's Branchline to the historic mining town of Silverton, Colorado, also still notably using historic D&RGW Steam Locomotives and other historic rail equipment.
The Rochester Hotel, at 726 E.Second Ave. in Durango, Colorado, was built in 1892.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]Its construction was begun in 1890.