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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."
Main Avenue is a Nationally Registered Historic District that cuts through downtown Durango and is home to galleries, boutiques, restaurants, bars, and other businesses. Two notable and historic hotels, the General Palmer and the Strater, lie at the south end of the avenue, near the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad depot. With its ...
The Durango and Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad, often abbreviated as the D&SNG, is a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow-gauge heritage railroad that operates on 45.2 miles (72.7 km) of track between Durango and Silverton, in the U.S. state of Colorado. The railway is a federally-designated National Historic Landmark and was also designated by the American ...
37°16′44″N 107°52′48″W / 37.2788°N 107.87997°W / 37.2788; -107.87997. Type. Science museum. Website. powsci.org. Powerhouse Science Center, formerly The Durango Discovery Museum, is an interactive science center located in Durango, Colorado. The museum opened on February 23, 2011 in what was once a power plant.
Main Avenue Historic District (ID80000907 [1]) Designated CP. August 7, 1980. 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 ...
List of National Register of Historic Places in the U.S. State of Colorado. 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.
August 8, 2001 [5] Durango High School is a public high school in Durango, Colorado, United States. The school's historic building, now the district's administrative building, [4] is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and the Colorado State Register of Historic Properties. The building opened in 1917, and served as a high school ...
Colorado Ute Power Plant. Colorado Ute Power Plant. September 29, 1983. (#83001323) 14th St. and the Animas River. 37°16′44″N 107°52′47″W / 37.278889°N 107.879722°W / 37.278889; -107.879722 (Colorado Ute Power Plant) Durango. 4. Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Locomotive No. 315.