“History Colorado works with the National Park Service to list buildings in Colorado in the National Register of Historic Places,” says Steve Turner, V.P. of Preservation at History Colorado and Colorado’s Deputy State Historic Preservation Officer. “The inclusion of these six properties demonstrate the wide array of resources that History Colorado and the National Park Service seek to preserve.”

Engelbrecht Farm
In the 1940s, Frank Zybach and Ernest Engelbrecht on their farm in Adams County created center-pivot irrigation, which improved water distribution through the use of rotating sprinkler equipment. This innovative idea transformed irrigation systems worldwide and is responsible for the distinctive green crop circles across the Colorado plains.

Dodge-Hamlin House
Now part of the Colorado College campus in Colorado Springs, the Mission Revival style Dodge-Hamlin House was built in 1916 by famed architect Nicolaas van den Arend for newspaper publisher Clarence Dodge, who sold the house in 1923 to publisher and political leader, Clarence Hamlin.

Winks Panorama/Winks Lodge (amendment and boundary increase)
In 1925 Obrey Wendall “Winks” Hamlet constructed Winks Lodge at Lincoln Hills, a resort community in Gilpin County that offered a safe haven for African-American vacationers. Winks Lodge was added to the National Register in 1980, but this year, an amendment was approved to increase the boundary and elevate the site’s significance from the state to the national level.

Monument Lake Park Building and Hatchery Complex
Located amidst the Sangre de Cristo Mountains near Trinidad, the Rustic style Monument Lake Park Building and Hatchery Complex was built in 1934 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as both a fish hatchery and a zoo.

Great Western Sugar Company Effluent Flume Bridge, Fort Collins
The production of beet sugar created so much effluent, liquid waste that the Great Western Sugar Company in Fort Collins had to design a suspension bridge to remove it. The Effluent Flume and Bridge was designed in the 1920s to carry lime and beet pulp and water waste across the the the Cache la Poudre River at what is today Kingfisher Point Natural Area.

South Park City Museum
Built in 1959, the South Park City Museum is an intact outdoor museum and replica of a frontier mining community. More than 50 years later, the South Park City Museum is still open to the public today.

Read more about the history of these properties in From Farms to Zoos and Everything in Between: Colorado Welcomes Six New Properties to the National Register on the History Colorado Preservation Blog.

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