Placer Gulch Boarding House
San Juan County
The circa 1905 Placer Gulch Boarding House is a rare surviving example of a 1½ story boarding house from the hard-rock mining era in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains. The building originally had private living quarters, a kitchen, dining room and large storage room on the first floor with benches and individual beds on the second. An adit to the Prospect Mine is just down the slope from the boarding house and the Gold Prince aerial tramway passes through this site.
Placer Gulch Boarding House (2008 photograph.)
This property meets the requirements under the draft Multiple Property Documentation Form titled Mining Resources in San Juan County, a sub-context of the Multiple Property Documentation Form titled the Mining Industry in Colorado. It has two property types: 1) Mining Settlement and Residence - Worker Housing and 2) Hard Rock Prospect – Prospect Adit.