Built in 1962-63 and inspired in design and layout by the historic Bent’s Old Fort in Otero County, The Fort was constructed of adobe bricks using traditional Hispanic methods and materials.  As one of few structural core adobe resources in Colorado outside the San Luis Valley, The Fort is exceptional for its adaptation of historic design, its association with William Lumpkins, an architect known internationally for work in adobe and the Pueblo Revival style, and for its use of traditional practices of construction and embellishment. 

The Dinosaur Ridge hogback is located on the western edge of the Denver Basin, immediately adjacent the foothills of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains.  Rich fossil quarries were discovered there in March 1877 by Arthur Lakes.

Although included by Frederick Law Olmsted, Jr. in his Mountain Park System Plan of 1914, the land was not acquired until 1935. 

The 1886 District No. 17 - Medlen School began in as a Pioneer Log building. Around 1900 the school district moved it across the road, added clapboard siding over the logs and a small anteroom. Additionally, the district constructed a small teacherage beside the school.

This Ken-Caryl Ranch archaeological site consists of a rock shelter situated within a bluff in a sandstone outcropping.

The approximately five-acre district is located within the boundaries of the Denver Botanic Gardens’ Chatfield Arboretum.  Settled by Frank Hildebrand in 1866, the family’s farming and ranching operation reportedly encompassed over 2,500 acres of owned or leased land by 1943. 

The 1860 Bradford-Perley House originally served as a station house on the Bradford Wagon Road during the years it was occupied by Robert Bradford, a respected Denver merchant and freight hauler.

This small rock shelter was used intensively by prehistoric peoples from approximately 3000 BC to AD 1540-a span of 4,500 years. 

This 1898 school expanded twice to accommodate the growing community and closed in 1968 as the oldest continuously operating school in Lakewood. 

Believed to date from the late 1860s, this small well-crafted dwelling apparently functioned as an early farmhouse.  The main portion includes an attic level and has a side gabled roof.