Eldora Historic District

Coordinates: 39°57′1″N 105°34′17″W / 39.95028°N 105.57139°W / 39.95028; -105.57139
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Eldora Historic District
MPS
Metal Mining and Tourist Era Resources of Boulder County MPS
NRHP reference No.89000978[1]
CSRHP No.5BL.758
Added to NRHPOctober 4, 1989

Eldora Historic District is a 30 acres (12 ha)

contributing buildings and 12 non-contributing ones.[1]

The district includes a "collection of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Log and Rustic Tourist buildings located in the heart of Eldora, a small former mining town in western Boulder County, Colorado. The district consists primarily of dwellings constructed for its early mining population and later adapted for the vacationers who came on a seasonal basis. Additionally, the district contains several turn-of-the century vernacular Commercial Buildings from the mining era and a significant amount of open space, a distinctive component of the district's rural character."[2]

A salient

contributing building in the district is the Gold Miner Hotel
, which is separately listed on the National Register.

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  2. ^ Deborah Edge Abele; Barbara Norgren (October 1988). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Eldora Historic District". National Park Service. Retrieved June 27, 2018. With accompanying 11 photos from 1986-87