Completed in 1888, this large Queen Anne style "pattern book" residence was built by Charles H. Burgess, an affluent citizen of Colorado Springs.

The district contains an important collection of turn-of-the-century wood frame houses the styling of which includes local versions of Queen Anne and Dutch Colonial Revival. 

Located in a neighborhood of substantial homes, the 1885 Queen Anne style Bemis House was designed by architect W.F. Ellis. 

Constructed in 1908 as a women’s dormitory and dining hall, the building served as a focus of campus social life for women and reflects the early 20th century design philosophies for women’s dormitories.  

Chicago Architect E.A. Harrison designed the circa 1917 Jacobethan Revival style railroad depot.  The building once contained one of the famous Harvey House restaurants that provided meals to passengers across the AT&SF system. 

The 1892 church building is an interesting local expression of the Shingle Style with its wood shingled walls, long sloping gabled roofs and windows grouped into pairs and fours.  Undulating or wavy pattern wood shingles, another characteristic of this style, can be seen in the apex of the gables.  Other decorative features include paneled vergeboard, eyebrow dormers, and stained glass windows. 

Opened for business in 1886, additions were constructed in 1890 and 1899.

The 1906 depot served the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad on its route between Kansas and Colorado Springs.  It is one of only three surviving depots of the Rock Island Railroad in Colorado remaining on their original sites. 

The district provides an opportunity to understand how prehistoric peoples processed and transported clays for ceramic production.  

Built circa 1880, the J.G. Evans Barn is one of the last remaining barns from the earliest period of settlement and development in the Black Forest area.  Typical of a Midwest three portal barn with its hand hewn logs, three bays, and broken gable roof, the building retains original materials, feed bins and stalls, and a tin-lined grain room.