To call Colorado home is to walk in the footsteps of those who forged the Old West, in all its glory and also its disrepute.
Development and neglect threaten many of the historic sites that connect Colorado residents to the state’s rough-and-tumble past.
That’s why Colorado Preservation Inc. developed its Endangered Places Program. Each year this organization devoted to historic preservation in the Centennial State adds new sites to its endangered-places list with hope that identifying them will ultimately save them.
Today during Colorado Preservation’s annual conference in downtown Denver, the organization announces that five more sites — pictured here — will be added to the list.
Of the 65 sites identified by the organization between 1998 and 2007, nine have been saved, 38 are in progress, 15 remain threatened, and three have been lost.
Elana Ashanti Jefferson
