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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
Eldora Historic District is located in Colorado
Eldora Historic District
Eldora Historic District is located in the United States
Eldora Historic District
LocationRoughly Eaton Pl., 6th, Pearl, and 4th Sts., Huron Ave., 6th St., Eldorado Ave., and 7th St., Klondyke Ave. & Tenth St., Eldora, Colorado
Coordinates39°57′1″N 105°34′17″W / 39.95028°N 105.57139°W / 39.95028; -105.57139
Area30 acres (12 ha)
Built1893
Architectural styleLate 19th And 20th Century Revivals, Rustic
MPSMetal 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) historic district in Eldora, Colorado. Other names of the district and/or other historic names of places in the district are Happy Valley, Eldorado Camp, and 5BL758. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. The listing included 55 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

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  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