Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

Listing of state and federal documents covering topics from historic farm buildings to dinosaur remains.

In an effort to leverage the current resources available for historic preservation, the Colorado Historical Foundation created the CHF Revolving Loan Fund. The Loan Fund partners with the State Historical Fund by providing grant recipients an additional source of funding for historic preservation in the form of low-interest rate loans.

Pueblo's North Side Neighborhood is one of the most significant collections of residential buildings in southeastern Colorado. Beginning in the 1880s, Mahlon and John Thatcher, chose to locate their enormous estates in the North Side. They established a trend that would span the next seven decades.

The survey resulted in the documentation of 278 primary buildings within and adjacent to the Corazon de Trinidad Historic District.

Of the many processes used to "preserve" an historic building, maintenance is almost always the most effective and least destructive. Although most people recognize this fact, the vast majority of historic preservation efforts focus on saving buildings once they begin to fail, rather than preventing the failure from occurring in the first place. The purpose of this manual is to inform owners about techniques for maintaining existing historic buildings...