National Register of Historic Places

Eldora Historic District

Eldora, Boulder County, Colorado
Listed
October 3, 1989
Type
District
Period
Listed
Ref No.
89000978

About this property

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

Location

Eldora, Boulder County, Colorado
39.95038, -105.57198

Categories

ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATIONEXPLORATION/SETTLEMENTARCHITECTURE
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Sources

Property data from the National Register of Historic Places, National Park Service (public domain).

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Nearby Historic Sites

Gold Miner Hotel (Boundary Increase)
Industrial
0.1 mi
Gold Miner Hotel
Industrial
0.1 mi
Buchan Cabin
Industrial
2.2 mi
Bain Cabin
Industrial
4.5 mi
Denver, Boulder and Western Railway Historic District
Listed
6.1 mi

Questions about this property

When was Eldora Historic District listed on the National Register?

Eldora Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 3, 1989.

What type of historic resource is Eldora Historic District?

Eldora Historic District is classified as a district in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Eldora Historic District?

The period of significance for Eldora Historic District is recorded as the listed era.

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