The house is one of the few residences in the community retaining its original outbuildings, making it an important example of a late 19th century urban residential complex.

The building is a well-preserved example of a neighborhood grocery.  

The Garcia School is one of only a few adobe buildings remaining in what was once Plaza de los Manzanares, a settlement in the San Luis Valley dating to 1849.

The house is a rare brick example of the modest residences constructed by local coal miners and is associated with the town’s Italian heritage. 

This district, west of downtown Longmont, incorporates two neighborhoods, Thompson Park and Central School. 

Built in 1881, the red brick building has been painted white. 

This relatively simple 20th century Commercial Style, two-story, brick building exhibits a faint reference to the Colonial Revival style. 

Fort Garland is important for its association with the settlement of the San Luis Valley and southern Colorado.  Built in 1858, the fort served as a base of military operations until it was abandoned in 1883. 

The building housed Longmont’s first and only college from 1886 to 1889.

Benjamin C. Viney was the supervising architect for this 1913 one-story building, a simplified version of the Renaissance Revival style.