(2009) Oak Creek Town Hall

(2007)

Norvell House (2006)

Maxwell-Squire Building (2005)

Perry Mansfield- Cabeen (2005)

Crawford House (2005)

Steamboat Springs Arts Depot (2005)

Routt National Bank Building (2000)

Mesa Schoolhouse (1999)

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Built: 1910
The Norvell House exemplifies the development and heritage of Routt County and is associated with James Lafayette Norvell, an early settler, rancher and cattle dealer, and considered the County’s first entrepreneur and developer who lived in the Craftsman style bungalow during the productive years of his life.  He became a well-known figure throughout Colorado known as the ‘Preacher Cowboy’. He was elected Mayor of Steamboat Springs in 1914. The one-and-a-half story, horizontal wood-drop-sided, rectangular house, built in 1910 and owned by Norvell until 1920, has the characteristic gabled roof; wide, overhanging eaves; dormers; decorative shingling, and full porch with square columns of the Arts and Crafts era that was popular in the area from 1910 through the 1920s. It retains its architectural integrity and remains a private residence to this day.  The Craig’s restored the original house and added an addition to the house in 2006 maintaining the historical integrity of the original structure.

Built: 1917
Legacy Ranch (also known as Arnold Ranch District) was purchased in 1919 by Irving Arnold.  The 160-acre Hay Meadow Ranch, was originally homesteaded beginning in 1899 by Elizabeth Hutchinson. The District presently consists of six structures: the one-story main house, built in 1917; an adjacent coal shed; a 1929 bunkhouse; a noncontributing but rather unique cinderblock barn, built post-1945; a machine shed, and a pole livestock shed. The home is Vernacular Wood Frame Hipped Box Style, and is characterized by large porches and minimal ornamentation. The built environment typifies the needs and land use practices of high country farming and ranching operations during the development period of Routt County, and the architecture reflects the importance and success of agriculture in the region. The property has recently undergone restoration and is being used as Yampatika’s Environmental Learning Center. Yampatika offers summer camps for youth aged 5-14; school field trips; and will be developing adult programs this winter.

Built: 1927
The Town Board purchased land for and began construction of a town hall, jail, administrative offices, a vault, and firehouse in 1927. The long, narrow cinder-block-and-stuccoed building, conforming to its lot size, was used for these purposes as well as a voting location and social gathering place until the mid 1990s, after which it fell into disrepair. The Historical Society of Oak Creek and Phippsburg was awarded State Historical Fund grants to refurbish the building and convert it into a museum due to its historic significance, its prominent location in the town, and its architectural integrity. It now houses a museum to complement the coal and agricultural historical park located on the adjacent lot.

Steamboat Springs Arts Depot (2004)

Built: 1908
The Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway reached Steamboat Springs in 1909, thus opening up an important rail link between the community and Colorado’s Eastern Slope markets. Denver architect Frank Edbrooke designed the two story building which included a passenger section, with waiting rooms and station office below upper level living quarters, and a long freight and baggage extension to the west. The depot closed when passenger service ended in 1968. It was added to the National Historic Register in 1978.  This rehabilitation and preservation project restored windows, cleaned the façade, and fixed damage to the chimney.

Steamboat Springs Arts Depot (after restoration)

Steamboat Springs Arts Depot

Historic Photo- Crawford House Door (Interior view)

Crawford House Door (Exterior View)

Built: 1894
The Crawford House is culturally, architecturally, and historically significant to the town of Steamboat Springs.  The original owner, James Crawford, founded Steamboat Springs in 1875 and holds the distinction of being the first permanent settler.  James was also the first mayor of Steamboat Springs.  The Crawford House was placed on the National Historic Register in 2005.  The house is a rare local example of residential Romanesque Revival style architecture built entirely of native ashlar sandstone.  The interior and exterior were restored and an addition was constructed to house more modern amenities.

Historic Photo- Mesa Schoolhouse

Rendering- Mesa Schoolhouse

Mesa Schoolhouse (today)

Built: 1916
The 1916 Mesa Schoolhouse, located south of Steamboat Springs, is an excellent local example of the early twentieth-century rural schoolhouse building type. It was used as a school until 1959 and was placed on the National Historic Register in 2007. The Mesa Schoolhouse was preserved and rehabilitated inside and out. The adaptive reuse serves as a community meeting facility.

Routt County National Bank Building (1949)

Routt County National Bank Building (1970)

Routt County National Bank Building (2008)

Built: 1918
The rehabilitation and preservation of the Routt National Bank building (which had undergone several transformations from when it was originally constructed in 1918) was completed in 2002. The 1970’s transformation was the most drastic and completely covered up the original stone work. The rehabilitation and preservation reflected not only how the bank originally looked, but some of the historical modifications that the building had undergone in the 1940’s. The preservation of the Routt National Bank building has restored the bank’s presence in the fabric of downtown Steamboat Springs.

Maxwell-Squire Building (2000)

Maxwell-Squire Building (2008)

Built: 1908
The Maxwell/Squire Building was the second structure in Steamboat to earn a place on the National Register of Historic Places and received the status in 1995. To rehabilitate the building, masons removed many of the bricks individually before resetting them with new, specially blended mortar. At the same time, crews restored the window frames to their original, historic façade, re-roofed the building and strengthened its stone parapet.

Maxwell- Squire Building (2000)

Maxwell- Squire Building (2008)

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Cabeen (before)

Cabeen (after renovation)

Built: 1889
Cabeen is the oldest cabin at the Perry-Mansfield Camp and School for Performing Arts. Portia Mansfield and Charlotte Perry stayed at Cabeen when they were at the camp. It is a Major Contributing Building in the Perry-Mansfield Camp and School for the Performing Arts record for the National Register of Historic Places. The work to rehabilitate the cabin included installation of a new foundation wall, retaining wall, and porch column piers, fixed drainage, repair of the original logs and chinking, and reinforcement of the roof structure.