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Looking west from High Street down Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1890-1899. The two-story frame schoolhouse on Harris Street stands prominently in view. Built in 1882, the school featured a bell tower centered on the multi-gabled roof. The large white frame building in the left background is St. Mary's Catholic Church on French Street, before it had a bell tower (installed in 1899). Far right, on the north end of French Street is Father Dyer United Methodist Church, at its original location before the courthouse was built on the same lot in 1908.

A man standing outside Kaiser's Market looks at the enormous piles of snow remaining on Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado after the "Big Snow" winter of 1898-1899.

Snowy landscape view of Breckenridge, Colorado, looking east toward the railroad tracks on Barney Ford Hill. Plumes of smoke are visible rising from the rotary snowplow railroad engines. Bald Mountain in the background. During the "Big Snow" event of 1898-1899.

Two men sit or stand in the back of the Goldpan's electrical supply shop, located at the south end of Breckenridge. The narrow room features tall windows surrounded by wooden shelves holding various types of glass lamp globes and other electrical lighting supplies. Hanging from the wooden beams above are ceiling light fixtures, each with two glass lamp globes.

Looking west on Lincoln Avenue from High Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1909-1910, soon after the brick school building (left) was constructed in 1909 and before the 1882-built frame schoolhouse (center) was demolished. The Summit County Courthouse (right) is under construction on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and French Street; sharing the lot is Father Dyer United Methodist Church (far right), before it was moved to its present location on Wellington Road.

Real-photo postcard number 91695 shows view overlooking the town of Breckenridge, Colorado. Bald Mountain in the left background. Circa 1900s.

J. Frank Willis' one and half story front gable frame house on Gibson Hill, east of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1880s-1903. Outside, Willis holds his bicycle by the handle as he props his left foot on the bike pedal. A second bike leans against a tree by a dirt path. He wears a cap, coat, and knickers with stockings.

Holiday postcard shows a snowy landscape and Helen Rich and Belle Turnbull's log cabin on French Street in Breckenridge, Colorado. Printed below the image are the words: "The Season's Greetings".

Edwin Carter's log cabin and museum on Ridge Street, Breckenridge. The one story front gable log cabin with shed addition was built in 1875. The fenced property also included a secondary structure (log outbuilding) on the south side. Outside the cabin is a pile of antlers. Town buildings and a view of the Tenmile Range in the background. Circa 1899.

View of the Summit County Courthouse, facing Lincoln Avenue in Breckenridge, Colorado. In the foreground is a rough-hewn log cabin with a rock chimney and The Engle Brother's Bank on Ridge Street. Circa after 1910.

A boy stands in the snowy landscape outside the schoolhouse on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado, circa 1898. Built in 1882, the two-story wood frame schoolhouse featured a bell and bell tower centered on the simple gable roof, and a shed addition on the south side. Brick chimneys rise from both gable ends and sash windows are pedimented throughout. Next door is a side gable frame house. In the foreground is a wooden sidewalk running along the east side of Harris Street. The schoolhouse was torn down and replaced with a brick structure in 1909.

Schoolhouse on the corner of Lincoln Avenue and Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado sometime after it was built in 1908. Two people stand near one of the two entrances on the east side of the three story brick building. On the front lot is a tall, freestanding wood frame bell tower with bell. The brick building served as the Breckenridge Public School between 1909 and 1961.

Postcard, Breckenridge Public School on Harris Street in Breckenridge, Colorado.

Snowy landscape view of Breckenridge from the east side of the Blue River, facing the Tenmile Range. In the foreground a wooden bridge and wooden flume cross the river on Washington Avenue at Montgomery Street. The flume beside the bridge is the water line coming into town. Far right is a mill. Circa early 1900s, before dredging began on the Blue River.

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 tower. A wagon is parked in front of the Livery.

A man and two women stand outside Bruch's Barbershop and Store on Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. The building to the south 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 east side of Main Street, 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. In the background are dredge rock piles from Tonopah No. 1. Circa 1922.

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.

Looking north down Main Street, Breckenridge. Frame buildings line either side of the dirt street. On the left is the Arlington Hotel, with its curvilinear false front, and a view of Denver Hotel's portico over the boardwalk. Opposite, one lone man stands outside the Arbogast building (later the site of Masonic Lodge No. 47) on the corner of Washington Avenue and Main Street. Wooden sidewalk/boardwalk in the foreground.

The Denver Hotel on the west side of snow-covered Main Street, Breckenridge, 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.

An elderly man wearing a beret leans on his cane outside a store on Main Street, Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa after 1912, when the wooden sidewalks were replaced by concrete. The storefront windows advertise "Cigars - Tobacco & Candles - Newsstand". Inside the doorway, a tall glass tabletop cabinet with a curved glass front displays merchandise. More items are displayed in the windows, including card mount photographs on easels.