The 1903 First National Bank in Paonia is an important downtown commercial building built of locally quarried and cut sandstone.  Most of the downtown buildings display 19th century Commercial Italianate elements in wood, while the Bank building utilizes stone and exhibits a Romanesque Revival influence in the arch, stone piers and square cut stone. 

The 1902 two-story brick building is an excellent local example of Late Victorian commercial architecture with Classical Revival detailing.  

The residence was constructed between 1905 and 1912, using red bricks made on the site.  John and Sophia Bruce, early pioneers in the North Fork Valley, were first involved in cattle raising. 

The 1906 Bross Hotel is architecturally significant as the only two-story Late Victorian style hotel, of its era, remaining in Paonia.  It provided accommodations to Paonia visitors, investors, fruit brokers and associates of the Westmoreland Coal Company and many others.  William T. Bross built the hotel by making about 100,000 bricks on site from the clay excavated from the cellar.

The early 1890s Stell House survives as a distinctive example of a type and method of construction.

The 1925 Hotchkiss Methodist Episcopal Church is an excellent example of the Craftsman style applied to an ecclesiastical building.  The church displays the typical characteristics of the style such as local stone, truss work, overhanging eaves with exposed rafters, and wood shingles.

Completed in 1897, the two-story red brick hotel was the community’s first major commercial building. 

The Hotchkiss Homestead is important for its long association with Agriculture from 1884 to 1961.  Additionally it is important for its association with Enos Throop Hotchkiss, a noted Colorado pioneer, from 1884-1900, in the area of Exploration/Settlement. 

The First Presbyterian Church of Eckert is an excellent example of the Craftsman style as applied to ecclesiastical architecture.  Constructed in two stages between the years 1915-1921, the building exhibits many elements of the style, including a stone exterior, triangular braces, exposed rafters and truss work.  Few Colorado churches utilized the Craftsman style.

The 1911 building is an example of fine stone construction reflecting the craftsmanship of members of the Walker family who were Delta area stone masons.