Architectural Inventory Form for 117 South Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name: Breckenridge Town Hall. Date of construction (actual): 1941. This site was the former location of the 1880 Denver Hotel (demolished in the 1940s due to fire damage).

Buildings fronted with concrete sidewalks line both sides of Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, looking north. Circa after 1912. Utility poles line the east side of the dirt packed street. Across the street, two men and a dog stand outside the building adjacent to Evans Pharmacy. To the right is the Denver Hotel. The balcony and covered portico has been removed and boards are placed across the second floor doors. Next is a front gable two and half story frame building, then Bruch's Barbershop and Store with a barber pole out front. Further north is the Silverthorn Hotel.

The Denver Hotel on the west side of snow covered Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado during the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899. Snowfall totaled over 32 feet that winter; it was so deep it reached the hotel's second-floor balcony. The two-story wood frame building featured paired gables and a shared false-front with the words "DENVER HOTEL". The Post Office shares the hotel's covered portico. Next door is a false front building with signs announcing "Bankrupt Stock" in the storefront windows.

Young Ella Foote, dressed in an overcoat, bonnet and scarf, uses a pole for balance and wooden skis or snow shoes to cross over a enormous snow drift in Breckenridge, Colorado, during the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. Tunnels were dug through enormous snow drifts to allow passage to buildings on both sides of Main Street. In view above the snow pile is the false-front of R.C. McKillip Livery and the bell tower of Fireman's Hall. Left foreground shows part of the Denver Hotel's covered portico.

Looking north down snow covered Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1899-1910. False front and wood frame buildings and utility poles line both sides of the street. In view on the left is Evans Pharmacy and the Denver Hotel (with covered portico and balcony). Across the street is Firemen's Hall (with bell tower).

View looking north on Main Street, Breckenridge, during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. A man (probably Ezra Stewart) wearing a dark cape overcoat and hat stands on top of a tall snow bank in front of the Arlington House and Denver Hotel. Across the snow-covered street is Breckenridge Masonic Lodge No. 47 and Fireman's Hall with belfry and hose drying tower.

Main Street Breckenridge, between Lincoln Avenue and Washington Avenue, looking north. Circa 1882-1890. This detailed image shows the covered portico of the Denver Hotel, with a man sitting in a chair on the wooden boardwalk. A dog waits nearby on the dirt street. Next door to the hotel stands a barbershop pole, and beyond, barely visible, is the sign for the Saddle Rock restaurant. Across the street (east side) are more wood frame false front businesses and Fireman's Hall with bell cupola. A wagon is parked in front of the Livery.

Looking north down Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1892-1899, before there was telephone service, but after electricity. Wood frame buildings line either side of the dirt street. The curvilinear, false fronted Arlington Hotel is in view on the left. Also in view is Denver Hotel's portico over the boardwalk. Across the street, one lone man stands outside the Arbogast building (later the site of Masonic Lodge No. 47) on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Main Street. Wooden sidewalk/boardwalk in the foreground.

A man in a suit and two women wearing white ankle length dresses and coats stand outside Bruch's Barbershop and Store on Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado circa 1922. On the concrete sidewalk in front of the store is a barbershop pole topped with a sign for "Baths". Next door is the Denver Hotel, with a flag hanging over the sidewalk (sometime after the covered portico and balcony was removed). Signs advertising "Laundry - Denver's Best - Tobacco" and "Evans Pharmacy" project from an adjacent building. Further south a man stands under the covered portico of the Arlington Hotel. More buildings line the other side of Main Street. In view from left to right: Finding's Hardware Store, decorated with banners, bunting and flags; H.C. Rogers and Co. Furniture store, with shed addition; unidentified building; The Arcade Hotel (built in 1892); Sumner's Grocery (built in 1901); Masonic Lodge No. 47, on the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue. Centered in the background, west of Main Street, are dredge rock piles from Tonopah #1.

Men and women stand in snowdrifts covering the sidewalk under the portico of the Denver Hotel on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Others stand in the snow in front of Evans Pharmacy. In view is a barber's pole advertising "Baths". During the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899, heavy snowfall had reached the second story of most buildings. Tunnels were dug to allow passage on both sides of the street.

Snowy landscape of Breckenridge, Colorado looking east at the railroad tracks on Ford Hill, with Bald Mountain in the background. Smoke rises from the stovepipes on wood frame buildings and houses. In view on the west side of Main Street, from left: the back of Denver Hotel's two buildings side-by-side; an unidentified structure with an angled roof; rear view of the Arlington Hotel, including the backside of its curvilinear false front; J.A. Turk and Company drugstore and saloon; and other structures and houses. Circa April 1899.

The Blue River Hose Company procession on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Company members hold the leads to a fire hose cart decorated with American flags. Their uniforms include conductor's caps and bib shirts with the letter "H" sewn onto buttoned chest protectors. Men, women and children watch the parade from the Denver Hotel's second story balcony or from the covered portico below. Handwritten numbers identify the firemen's names: 1. Wm. F. Forman, Foreman; 2. R.L. Nute, First Assistant; 3. T.E. Eastland, Second Assistant; 4. B.O. Sheville; 5. R.R. Kirk; 6. Frank Collins; 7. C.C. Chamberlain; 8. R.M. McCollum; 9. Joseph Bush; 10. W.H. Woodside; 11. Ed Radigan; 12. Frank Davis; 13. D.W. Fall; 14. J.J. Madigan; 15. George Baker; 16. George Hannahs; 17. Ernest Campbell; 18. George Forman.

Men stand side by side in a row along Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado in front of the Denver Hotel. Quote from caption on the reverse of photograph print: "about 1918 World War One veterans or enlisted men". The Summit County Journal, Saturday July 21, 1917, Vol. XXXVIII No. 3 has similar photograph with caption "Company B, Second Infantry, C.N.G....photographed [by] A.W. Miller."