‘Remarkable’ Winter Park Balcony House Placed On This Year’s Colorado Endangered Places List
CBS Denver 2/12/2021 Syndicated Local – CBS Denver
DENVER (CBS4) – CBS4’s very own Dave Aguilera recently announced the 2021 list of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places. Colorado Preservation Inc. creates the list every year to bring awareness to threatened historic buildings, landmarks, and archaeological sites.
On the list this year are Colorado’s historic bridges, the Lafayette Head Home and Ute Indian Agency in Conejos, and the Winter Park Balcony House in Grand County.
Dana Crawford is known as Denver’s preservation matron and nominated the Balcony House to the Most Endangered Places List. The Balcony House is Winter Park’s original base ski lodge and is threatened to be replaced by condos.
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Colorado Preservation works with the state to save threatened or endangered historic buildings, landscapes, and archaeological sites. The organization said that in its 24 years of creating the annual list, it has saved 52 sites, and only seven of them were lost forever.
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On February 11, Colorado Preservation announced three additions, which make up the 2021 list. It includes a number of bridges throughout the state, constructed between 1888 and 1973, the Lafayette Head Home & Ute Indian Agency built in 1855, and a mid-century ski lodge at Winter Park.
The Winter Park Balcony House is one that s getting a lot of attention, because according to Colorado Preservation, there are plans to demolish the resort s original ski lodge, and replace it with a six-story condominium complex.
Sunday, February 14, 10 a.m. to close Sure, it s cold, but a stroll through Cherry Creek North s sixteen walkable blocks under romantic lighting could heat up your love life, and there are plenty of warming stops along the way. Many of the stores are offering Valentine s Day deals, as are restaurants and hotels. Find out more here. Sunday, February 14, 1 p.m. The Mercury Cafe has been a longtime safe haven for Denver’s arts, music, literary and comedy scenes. As with so many places during the pandemic, though, it’s hit tough times. So composer and DeVotchKa multiinstrumentalist Tom Hagerman and magician Professor Phelyx have recruited a crew of local musicians, poets, comedians and more to send in Valentine’s Day video messages for a livestreamed fundraiser called A Valentine for the Mercury. Phelyx will host; Hagerman and the Grande Orquesta Navarre will play, and big names like Lumineers member Wesley Schultz, Nathaniel Rateliff, Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrea Gibson and
The Winter Park Balcony House.
In the 23 years that Kim Grant has worked to preserve history in Colorado, he’s seen the idea of preservation, and what to save, change.
Preservation used to focus on “the great fabulous landmarks of the rich and famous” but there s a new evolving philosophy on that ordinary places, landscapes and buildings have stories to tell as well, “particularly if they re part of broader social movements,” Grant said.
“It’s also important to tell (the stories) from a diverse perspective, to make sure that all the people who built Colorado are represented.”
As the director of Colorado s Most Endangered Places program, a part of Colorado Preservation, Inc., Grant believes the nature of threats to historic properties has changed in parallel to the growth of population and development in Colorado. He points to rural areas that have gone through decline, which creates its own pressure on historic resources, while the Front Range and other places lik
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