The following is part of KRCC s Peak Past essay series.
Winston Churchill once said, “We shape our buildings and afterwards, our buildings shape us.”
I keep coming back to that quote recently as I watched the Rocky Mountain PBS show, “Lost & Preserved in Colorado Springs,” directed and written by Kate Perdoni.
We look to the mountains and forget our buildings. We take them for granted, like gravity or air, but they re still important.
The Van Briggle Pottery Company, located at 1125 Glen Avenue/231 West Uintah Street in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Its contemporary use is as the headquarters for Colorado College s Facilities Department.
Manipulating the map is a breeze. Begin by heading to digitaldeepmap.com/cos.
From there, select the 1947 Aerial Imagery from the menu along the bottom. Then select the satellite option from the menu on the upper right. The old imagery will appear on the right side of the map, the modern images from 2018 will be on the left.
Use the vertical slider in the middle of the map to swipe betwen the old and new imagery. Once you have a feel for it, you can pan and zoom whatever part of town you d like to see. You can also view even older maps of the city as well.
Itâs our sesquicentennial year, one that should be full of cheerful events, boring speeches, tedious histories and drinks for all â especially if the pandemic exits stage right! And even if we have to make do with virtual events, we can lift a glass or two at home and thank those who preceded us. Colorado Springs is a vast, continuing communal project, one in which we all participate and from which we should all benefit. Like every human endeavor, our city is imperfect, incomplete and constantly changing. We donât know what the city will be 150 years hence, but we can look back on the last 150. For what itâs worth, here are five 19th-century drivers of our history, listed chronologically.Â
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The City of Colorado Springs, as part of its 150th anniversary celebration, has designated this April as “Tree Month.” Among the activities planned are public tree plantings citywide, an Arbor Day celebration, a virtual lecture “Exploring our Urban Forest” presented by the Pioneers Museum and the University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and weekly educational content on ColoradoSprings.gov that will feature planting tips, and tree care and watering advice from local experts. Courtesy city of Colorado Springs
âApril is usually a great month to plant trees in the Pikes Peak Region, and we encourage people to use these free, online resources to make a plan, and then get out there and have fun planting,â the city s forester Dennis Will said in a news release. âBy doing so, youâll be supporting our long-standing history as a Tree City USA, a recognitio
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