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Cripple Creek has always had the allure of riches, first as a gold mining town and now as a gambling haven.
Cripple Creek came to life after cowboy Bob Womack discovered gold in Poverty Gulch in 1890. Located at a lofty 9,500 foot elevation, 87 miles north of Pueblo, Cripple Creek and its neighboring town of Victor once boasted 500 mines that produced more than 22 million ounces of gold.
Cripple Creek was named a National Historic Landmark in 1961. But it’s historic buildings did not receive a boost until Colorado voters approved limited stakes gambling in 1991 and Cripple Creek experienced a revival.
As a result, gambling revenues generated funds that have gone into painstaking restoration of the Victorian-era buildings along Bennett Avenue, many of which house the city’s nine casinos.
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They have been visible to you for as long as you have been hanging around the downtown region of Colorado Springs, but chances are you have paid little or no attention to them. They are those excessively decorated square, octagonal, and rounded towers located at the corners of Victorian-era homes.
They hide from you downtown, in the Near North End between downtown and Colorado College, on the Colorado College campus, and in the Old North End north of the college. You won’t ordinarily see them as you hurry about your busy life. You have to get out of the car and go for a walk in order to observe them closely and appreciate their great “curb appeal.”