Nearly square in plan, with a steeply pitched hip roof, the house was built with enough rooms to accommodate coal miners as boarders, a common practice which helped supplement the owner’s income.  

The 1885 farmhouse, with its adjacent 1907 residence, is associated with the early settlement of rural Boulder County. 

Built in 1892, with funds provided primarily by town founder Mary Miller, this single story building with a steeply pitched roof, served the Lafayette coal mining families as a church meeting hall, hospital, and library.

Iglesia de la Inmaculada Concepción is significant for Hispanic Heritage as the social and religious center for the Chama community. 

The Costilla Estates Development Company, a business organized to sell lands within the Sangre de Cristo Land Grant, built the 32-mile San Luis Valley Southern Railway.

Located along the north bank of the Conejos River, the site marks the spot where, in 1807, Zebulon Pike raised the American flag over what was then Spanish territory.

The McIntire Ranch has the potential to yield information important to our understanding about the layout patterns of ranch complexes.  The site has a high archaeological potential for addressing gender-related research questions. 

The circa 1895 church, which was lengthened in 1911, is one of the oldest extant adobe churches in Conejos County.

Incorporating a wall of the original 1880 church, construction began on this adobe chapel in 1928.

La Jara traces its birth to the arrival of the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad in 1880.  Located on part of the San Juan Extension between Alamosa and Silverton, the 1911 depot served as a shipping point for area ranchers and farmers.