The Colorado State Forest Building Complex represents good examples Pioneer Log and Rustic-style architecture, the style represented on the main house and the Civil Conservation Corps (CCC) constructed office/garage.  Both the Pioneer Log and the Rustic styles incorporate the readily available and inexpensive construction material from the nearby forests.  The complex is also important for its association with President’s Franklin D.

The school, convent and rectory possess the distinctive characteristics of Mission Revival, a style not well represented in Walsenburg.

For several decades the 1910 Roof & Dick Building has anchored the heart of downtown Walsenburg, including with national chain stores like J.C. Penney (1932-1976) and Ben Franklin (1977-1985). 

Constructed in 1940, the Colorado Department of Highways designed the 123-foot long timber stringer bridge that includes six 20-foot long spans. 

The 1920 building (also known as Walsenburg Middle School) served the community for over 80 years as the center of middle and upper-level public school education.  The building is the work of the noted Colorado architectural firm of Isaac Hamilton Rapp and William Mason Rapp.

Designed by Pueblo architect C.A. Henderson, the two-story courthouse was built in 1904.  The adjacent two-story building utilized as the jail dates from the 1890s.

Though originally constructed in 1917 as the Star, the Fox Inter-mountain chain purchased and remodeled the building in 1941 and gave this mainstay of community entertainment a modern Art Deco appearance.

The Veta Pass-Uptop Historic District is important as related to transportation being a railroad stop from 1877-1901, the sawmill Industry from 1916-1945, and as tourist destination from 1945-1964.  

The community of Francisco Plaza, now La Veta, was originally founded in 1862. 

The simple L-shaped stuccoed stone depot dates to 1877.  The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad built it atop the 9,400 foot high La Veta Pass to serve passenger trains bound to and from the San Luis Valley to the west.