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architecture, houses and history
In light of some recent posts here on Colorado vernacular architecture and my recent appointment to the City of Boulder’s Landmark Preservation Advisory Board, I have been thinking a lot about the...
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Winks Lodge
A number of months ago I wrote a post about the historic Lincoln Hills neighborhood in rural Gilpin County, Colorado, about 20 miles southwest of Boulder. In the 1920′s when many of Colorado’s mayors...
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honoring some local architectural history
The Daily Camera, our local newspaper, just published a story by local writer and historian Silvia Pettem on the history of a local retail center just down the street from my office. The reason for...
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Octagonal houses and their ‘opposite’
You may have noticed in your town a strange, older octagonal house sitting in your neighborhood. In Boulder, there is one on Lincoln up on the Hill. These are not the one-off strange concoctions that...
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New technology and the richness of history
I have been thinking a lot about how to better harness new technology and new media resources to bolster interest in historic preservation and the changing architectural faces of our cities. I have...
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Preservation worth preserving
I recently attending some sessions of the Colorado Preservation Inc.’s Saving Places 2012 Conference. As usual with these things there are plenty of educational sessions that you can geek-out on...
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atmosphere
For as much as I am engaged everyday in making ‘new’ spaces, many of the places that most stick in my memory and that I am consistently attracted to are once quite nice or fancy places that have seen...
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Some Pretty Homes of Boulder
While doing some research for a new project, I ran into a these photos of some of Boulder’s older houses in a weekly newspaper called the Daily Herald. This article is from 1908 and is really more of...
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