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).
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Architectural Inventory Form for 127 (formerly 123) South Ridge Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name: Robert H. Whyte House. Date of construction (estimate): 1889. Also includes outbuildings: Burro Barn (present day public restrooms) addressed as 129 South Ridge Street, and Shed, addressed as 131 South Ridge Street.
Cultural Resource Historians LLCArchitectural Inventory Form for 130 South Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name: Whitehead Building, Arcade Hotel. Date of construction (estimate): 1892.
Cultural Resource Historians LLCArchitectural Inventory Form for 206-208 North Ridge Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Historic building name(s): Adamson House, Brown House, The Brown Hotel. Date of construction (estimate): circa 1880; 1898.
Cultural Resource Historians LLCBuildings 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.
UnidentifiedShows the east face, or back, of the building facing the alley behind 130 South Main Street, Breckenridge. Two automobiles are parked outside. Left (south) of the building is the east face of E.E. Sumner's Grocery Store. In view on the right, across Main Street, is the front of the building at 123 Main Street (called The Skinny Winter building).
UnidentifiedHandwritten on reverse: "Abbett's, Lots 7 & 8, Building 110, East face".
UnidentifiedYoung Ella Foote, dressed in an overcoat, bonnet and scarf, uses a pole for balance and wooden skis to cross Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. During the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899 heavy snowfall reached the second story of most buildings. In view 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.
UnidentifiedSpectators watch as costumed dancers perform a folk dance for a celebration or festival in Breckenridge, Colorado, on the tennis courts outside the Breckenridge Inn. Hanging on the south gable of the Inn is a round sign painted with the Breckenridge mountain sunburst logo.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Part one from the typed manuscript by Agnes (Finding) Miner. Her account of the early history of Breckenridge, titled "Founding and Early History of Breckenridge, Colorado" begins in 1859 with the Georgia Gulch gold rush and continues with the area's mining and railroad history. Agnes also includes the naming of Breckenridge and references to "Colorado, a Summer Trip" by Bayard Taylor and "In the Parks and Mountains of Colorado" by Samuel Bowles. Agnes ends part one of the manuscript with a poem.
Miner, Agnes E. (Finding)Men stand side by side in a row in front of the Denver Hotel on Main Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. The Summit County Journal published a similar photograph on Saturday July 21, 1917 (Vol. XXXVIII No. 3) captioned "Company B, Second Infantry, C.N.G....photographed [by] A.W. Miller."
UnidentifiedPart two of a two-part interview with Cheryl and Jim Beck conducted 2018-11-17. Topics of this interview include Camp Hale units in the 1950s and local residents who participated. Jim's brother was one of the participants and helped him get a job in the area. After working in the Peace Corps, Jim returned to Breckenridge and began bartending in 1966. He took an abandoned trailer and lived behind the Ore Bucket Lodge.
Beck, CherylInterview with Janet McDermott conducted 2019-09-30. McDermott came to Breckenridge in the early 1970s. After spending several weekends driving from Denver to ski at Breckenridge she decided it made more sense to move to the area full time. She started working at Breckenridge Resort Association as it was just beginning.
McDermott, JanetPart 1 of an interview with Kate Brewer and Kay McGinnis. This is the second time McGinnis and Brewer were interviewed for the Oral History Project. Topics largely focused in the 1960s, including the development of a "hotelary."
Brewer, KateInterview with Michael McMenamy conducted 2018-11-20. McMenamy first came to Breckenridge at 11 years old in 1970 from Littleton, Colorado. His father owned 12 acres near Blue River at the time. They eventually bought a house at 301 South Main Street and that is where McMenamy grew up. His father started out as a bartender at Breckenridge Inn before becoming the Ski Patrol Director at Breckenridge Ski Resort. He would eventually become the Mountain Manager, overseeing the development of Peak 9.
McMenamy, MichaelLooking east over the snowy landscape of Breckenridge, with Bald Mountain and Barney Ford Hill in the background. Wood frame buildings line the north end of Main Street, including the Occidental Hotel, facing west. Left center is a view of the Summit County Courthouse on Lincoln Avenue. Circa 1920s.
UnidentifiedLooking north on snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, during the "Big Snow" winter of 1898-1899. False front and wood frame buildings line both sides of the street. Second from left is the Arlington Hotel, with its curvilinear false front and covered portico. Across the street is the two and a half story, front gabled Arcade Hotel, facing west. In the right background is Fireman's Hall with bell tower and adjacent hose drying tower.
UnidentifiedLooking north on snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, during the winter of the "Big Snow" of 1898-1899. False front and wood frame buildings line both sides of the street. In the left foreground, Ezra Stewart, wearing a dark cape overcoat and hat, stands on top of a tall snowbank in front of the Arlington Hotel.
UnidentifiedLooking north on 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).
UnidentifiedJusten G. "Jess" Oakley and Eli Fletcher carry the mail down snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, during the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899. The men volunteered to ski over Boreas Pass to Como, where the Denver, South Park and Pacific (DSP&P) railway was stopped. Heavy snowstorms prevented trains from delivering mail, fresh food and other supplies. Quoted from handwritten text on the reverse: "US mail via snow shoe winter of the 78 day blockade".
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