The Russell Gulch Independent Order of Odd Fellows (I O O F) Hall (#41) building is significant for social history for its long association with the I O O F Lodge #41 providing an important social venue to interact with other miners and members and to receive assistance from their fellow members in times of need.  The 1895 building's second floor provided a meeting place for the Russell Gulch I O O F Lodge members and a community-meeting place for fifty years.

Winks Panorama is significant under Criterion A at the national level in the areas of Ethnic Heritage: Black and Social History as a historic African-American resort of the segregation era in the Rocky Mountain West for the period 1925 to 1965.  The property retains the atmosphere of the peaceful mountain oasis that it once offered to African-American vacationers with few options for travel and leisure due to the restrictions of segregation.  The Lodge is highly significant for what it can tell us about African-American life in the early twentieth century.  Resistance to segr

The Teller House was built by brothers Henry M. and Willard Teller during 1871-72.  The four-story brick building was reported to be the largest and most elaborately furnished hotel located outside of Denver. 

The 1887 Harvey House is the best surviving example of French Second Empire style architecture in Central City.

Opened in March of 1878, the two-story Renaissance Revival style stone building is the oldest surviving and first permanent opera house in Colorado. 

Were it not for the discovery of gold in 1859, there is hardly a more unlikely location for the establishment of a "boomtown" than the rugged and inhospitable terrain of the surrounding mountainsides.  

The Shawnee Historic District is locally significant for its historic association with transportation, entertainment/recreation, and community planning and development. Included in this historic district is a small cemetery.  The town of Shawnee played a significant role in the history of Colorado.  The community is associated with the history of transportation in the Rocky Mountain region, sitting along the route of the Denver, South Park and Pacific Railway construction line, later the Colorado and Southern Railway. 

The 1918 Staunton Ranch is a good representation of an early twentieth century entertainment and recreation mountain resort with Rustic style cabins. 

Begun in 1916, the complex is associated with the development of ranching activities along the county’s Tarryall Corridor.  Built largely of native logs, it is representative of a ranching complex of the period.  

The complex contains a collection of ranch buildings dating to 1925 associated with the development of ranching activities in the Wilkerson Pass area.  Built largely of native materials, the ranch is typical of the area and period.