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Goldfield

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1895–1932. 1.5 miles northeast of Victor

Once a town of some 2,000 and the ore shipping center of the district, Goldfield has shrunk to thirty or forty homes on a mostly bare grid of dirt streets. The city hall and fire station (1899), a two-story, raw frame structure at Victor Avenue and 9th Street (NR), has been installed on a new foundation and its bell tower reinforced and roofed. The first floor housed the fire cart and horses; city offices were upstairs. The flat-roofed building has ornate wooden quoins.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Goldfield", [, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-TL23.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 335-335.

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