Father Joseph Hirsch describes the 108-year-old Holy Transfiguration of Christ Orthodox Cathedral as “a place where history stays alive.” A $200,000 preservation project supported by the State Historical Fund will make sure that it remains that way.
Baron Walter von Richthofen didn’t coin the “Got milk?” advertising slogan, but he came awfully close. On September 15, 1888, the German-born promoter foreshadowed the popular white mustache campaign by touting “the Swiss milk cure” at his new restaurant, hotel, and sanitarium in the east Denver suburb of Montclair. The Molkery, or “milk house,” offered fresh, unpasteurized bovine beverages to the region’s many tuberculosis patients. And if warm drinks didn’t do the trick, guests could sit on sun porches constructed directly above the stables and inhale the supposedly therapeutic fumes wafting upward through specially designed floor grates. Not surprisingly, the baron’s business plan failed udderly.
“Don’t mess with Texas.” This successful anti-litter slogan-turned-unofficial Lone Star State motto did not stop Colorado Preservation, Inc. (CPI) and the City of Pueblo from thwarting the National Ranching Heritage Center’s attempt to buy a piece of Colorado history. The NRHC, a Texas Tech-based museum and historical park interpreting ranching, pioneer life, and the development of the livestock industry in North America, approached the owners of the Goodnight Barn in Pueblo last year. CPI discovered the plan to purchase the structure and relocate it to Lubbock through the organization’s Endangered Places Program nomination process for their annual Colorado’s Most Endangered Places List. At the same time, the City of Pueblo stepped up their efforts to find a way to purchase the property from the private owner with support from the State Historical Fund.