[I still don't live in Fort Collins anymore, but once in a while I get updates or hear things. We talked about the White Pine cab before here. Here's an update, thanks to Susan!] The White Pine Fire Lookout was moved this week. Originally in the mountains west of Fort Collins, the cabin has been [...]
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White Pine Lookout Moved, to Open 2012
Posted in Preservation and renewal, Vernacular buildings on August 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Historic Neighborhood Markets, Ghost Signs, & the Armstrong Hotel
Posted in Blog business, Commercial, Neighborhoods, Vernacular buildings on November 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »
I have had SUCH a hard time keeping this quiet– I didn’t want to say anything until it was done. But for several weeks the Armstrong Hotel has been preparing a nice souvenir map of the neighborhood markets that the Lost Fort Collins blog wrote about last year. The map in my original post was lame, and [...]
Meet the Rommels
Posted in Modest or alternative living, Preservation and renewal, Vernacular buildings, tagged Lewis Wickes Hine in Fort Collins, Then and now photos on September 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In 1915, Lewis Wickes Hine came to Fort Collins for a day as part of a project to document child labor in America. He photographed the Rommel house at 430 N. Loomis. It was boarded up in this October photo because the family was away harvesting beets. They would return to Fort Collins in the [...]
Park Street and the 40-foot giant
Posted in Neighborhoods, Vernacular buildings, tagged charvats grocery, fort collins, Historic Landmark District, monster houses, Park Street on July 7, 2009 | 17 Comments »
If you live in a neighborhood you love, and you worry about monster houses taking over, you should know what’s happening over on Park Street.
Arrowhead Lodge: On Colorado's trout route
Posted in Commercial, Preservation and renewal, Vernacular buildings on May 18, 2009 | 9 Comments »
My perfect cultural tourist experience: ruins, prisoners, ticks, and a staff that leaves you alone.
Where was Rockwood School?
Posted in Neighborhoods, Vernacular buildings, tagged Andersonville, lost fort collins schools, rockwood school, school building regulations on April 9, 2009 | 5 Comments »
In the comments section of an earlier post, Barefoot Meg asks, “where was Rockwood School?” Funny you should ask. I made Norm drive me there last month because I wondered too. Rockwood-Place (later renamed Barton) was built in 1908 near the beet factory and attended by migrant children– German Russian and Hispanic. It was the [...]
Lick and stick brick: Asphalt siding in Fort Collins
Posted in Modest or alternative living, Vernacular buildings, tagged cheap siding, gentrification fort collins, rolled asphalt siding on March 1, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Thanks to the remodeling boom, there aren’t as many homes left with rolled asphalt siding. Lost Fort Collins gives a shout out to our old lick and stick brick heritage.
Fort Collins' shotgun houses
Posted in Vernacular buildings, tagged carpenter house, colorado condors, shotgun house, vultures on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
More common in New Orleans, these houses are less than 12′ across, designed for good airflow, and arranged so you can shoot a shotgun straight through from the front door to the back door.
Quonset Hunt
Posted in Quonset hut, Vernacular buildings, tagged historic fort collins, Q-hut, Quonset hut houses, vintage quonset hut on September 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Lost Fort Collins was just supposed to be a blog about vanishing historic Fort Collins. Yet, the Quonset huts keep coming up. If you’re interested in Q-huts, you know they’re ubiquitous. So, what makes one even worth driving to see? Well, Norm and I have spent a significant amount of time in front of the [...]
Googie Fort Collins
Posted in Vernacular buildings, Vintage commercial, tagged architecture, fort collins, googie on September 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Fort Collins is kind of uncool. I don’t mean like bitter, mean, no fun uncool. I mean like we don’t have any cool googie architecture –that 50s/60s atomic boomerang look. We have a little bit, and we used to have a little bit more: But we don’t have any googie in all the places you would [...]
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