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Mineral Palace Park

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1896. Between 15th and 19th sts. from Court St. to I-25
  • (Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division)

King Coal and Queen Silver once reigned in the Colorado Mineral Palace, which was the centerpiece of this park. Built as Colorado's answer to the World's Columbian Exposition, this masterwork of Pueblo architect Otto Bulow was razed in 1942. (A model is in the El Pueblo Museum.) The triple-arched stone bridge over Lake Clara to the band shell remains, as does the Pavilion (1936, Robert Burris, draftsman), which now houses the Pueblo Art Gallery but once served as a boathouse. Alterations by the Civilian Conservation Corps streamlined the surviving Victorian buildings.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Ascension Episcopal Church
Beaumont House
Bowen Mansion
Rosemount Mansion (Thatcher Mansion)
Pueblo School District Administration Building

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Mineral Palace Park", [Pueblo, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PE15.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 319-319.

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