Preservation Projects > Historic Structure Assessments

COY-HOFFMAN FARM (FORT COLLINS)
Historic Structure Assessment assistance and CO OAHP Level II Documentation for this 1860s State Register-listed pioneer farmstead near downtown Fort Collins.
Client: Woodward Inc. / City of Fort Collins, Natural Areas Department

BIMSON BLACKSMITH SHOP (BERTHOUD)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1893 stone blacksmith shop, now housing the local history museum (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: Town of Berthoud / Little Thompson Valley Pioneer Museum

UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH (BERTHOUD)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1904 Romanesque-Gothic church, the most prominent landmark in the center of downtown (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: Berthoud Historical Society

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (ASPEN)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1890 Richardsonian Romanesque church that has served the Aspen community from its late 1800s mining era through the present time (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: Aspen Community Church
CASTLE CREEK HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT (ASPEN)
Historic Structure Assessment assistance for the 1893 Castle Creek Power Plant that served the electrical needs of Aspen and its mines for over six decades.
Client: City of Aspen, Community Development and Streets Departments
BOAT TOW AND ASPEN SKI LIFT NO. 1 (ASPEN)
Participation with a woodwork expert in field analysis and report preparation detailing the condition of the 1937 boat tow and 1946 ski lift, both remnants of Aspen's nascent ski industry.
Client: City of Aspen, Community Development Department
JACOB FLOWERS STORE (BELLVUE)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for the 1882 general store building erected in this pioneer agricultural and quarrying community by town founder and merchant Jacob Flowers (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: Cache la Poudre Grange #456
MASONIC LODGE (BERTHOUD)
Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1906 two-story commercial building and Masonic Hall in downtown Berthoud.
Client: Donald and Christine Gischel, Owners
CARLSON AUTOMOTIVE MACHINE SHOP (BERTHOUD)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1940 automotive repair shop, now housing the local history museum (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: Town of Berthoud / Little Thompson Valley Pioneer Museum
FIRST NATIONAL BANK / TOWN HALL (BERTHOUD)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1905 Classical Revival bank building, which has served since 1929 as the town hall and police department headquarters (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant and $109,000 restoration grant)
Client: Town of Berthoud
GUSTAV SWANSON FARM (BERTHOUD)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1917-1918 dairy farm located north of Berthoud and now used as a bed and breakfast (project awarded a $4,400 assessment grant).
Client: Dan and Sally Nibbelink (owners)
ECKERT PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH (ECKERT, DELTA COUNTY)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1921 Craftsman style volcanic rock church and its adjacent 1949 manse designed by nationally known architect Lawrence Valk (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: Eckert Presbyterian Church
HUBBARD RANCH / JCC RANCH CAMP (ELBERT COUNTY)
Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1921 summer camp established by famed Native American ethnographer Ralph Hubbard. The property was acquired by the Jewish Community Center of Denver in 1952 and has operated since then as a summer camp.
Client: Jewish Community Center of Denver
GREAT WESTERN SUGAR COMPANY, EFFLUENT FLUME & SUSPENSION BRIDGE (FORT COLLINS)
Grant writing and participation in a Historic Structure Assessment that evaluated the bridge and its preservation requirements (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: City of Fort Collins, Natural Areas Department
OTTESEN GRAIN CO. FEED MILL (FORT LUPTON)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1920 grain elevator and feed mill facility (project awarded $145,700 in assessment and restoration grants).
Client: Robert Vigil, La Familia Restaurant
MISSOURI HEIGHTS SCHOOL (GARFIELD COUNTY)
Historic Structure Assessment assistance and State Historical Fund grant application for this 1917 alpine rural school built by area ranchers (project awarded a $103,757 restoration grant).
Client: Missouri Heights Community Association
CITIZENS NATIONAL BANK (GLENWOOD SPRINGS)
Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this prominent 1913 Classical Revival commercial building located in the center of downtown.
Client: April Carver and Alice Sundeen, owners
GRAVES CAMP, F. E. WARREN LIVE STOCK COMPANY (LARIMER COUNTY)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1915-1963 lambing camp complex in northern Larimer County, developed by the Warren Live Stock Company of Cheyenne. The ranch holds a massive central lambing barn and corrals, along with horse barns, a cookhouse, bunkhouse, shop, chicken coop, and outlying barns and fenced pastures. Owned by the City of Fort Collins as part of the Soapstone Prairie Natural Area, the camp remains in use for livestock management (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant).
Client: City of Fort Collins, Natural Areas Department
GERMAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH (LONGMONT)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1924 Gothic church that served the German-Russian community working in the nearby sugar beet fields and Great Western Sugar factory (project awarded a $7,800 assessment grant and a restoration grant of $132,756).
Client: Longmont Community Church
STATE ARMORY (LOVELAND)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1926 Tudor Revival armory that housed a National Guard artillery unit that fought in the Pacific during World War II (project awarded a $9,950 assessment grant).
Client: Calvary Church
OLD WINDSOR TOWN HALL (WINDSOR)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1909 town hall building (project awarded a $111,750 restoration grant).
Client: Windsor-Severance Historical Society
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH (WINDSOR)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this 1915 Classical Revival church building (project awarded a $10,000 assessment grant and $296,955 restoration grant).
Client: First United Methodist Church
BEECHER ISLAND BATTLE SITE (YUMA COUNTY)
Grant writing and Historic Structure Assessment assistance for this internationally known 1868 Indian Wars battle site, which includes a large memorial auditorium built in 1927.
Client: Beecher Island Battle Memorial Association