Completed in 1900 by the Pueblo Bridge Company, the bridge is representative of the transition from the Howe to the Pratt truss for use as vehicular bridges.

Constructed in 1917, the school remained in operation into the 1956 school year.  The facility also served as a community center.  Located in a still rural setting, the collection of simple wood frame buildings survives as a rare multi-component reminder of rural school education.

The Holland – Thompson Property is significant architecturally between 1886 and 1939 as an excellent example of a Queen Anne style main house and Late Victorian carriage house.  The brick house features the complex geometry, hipped roof with lower cross gables, asymmetrical façade, wraparound porch, dormers, turned spindles, bargeboard, and fields of decorative shingles that characterize the Queen Anne style. 

Constructed in 1897, with a rear addition in 1907, this one-story stone rural schoolhouse replaced an earlier log structure.  Listed under Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission

The Paonia First Christian Church is an excellent example of Romanesque style church as interpreted by local craftsmen.  The building, along with several other churches, is in the heart of the residential area of Paonia, which has a long-standing religious identity marked by the high density of churches in the small town.

An excellent example of the architecture of the Late Victorian period, the 1897-1901 Mathews House is the most intact Queen Anne-style house in the Paonia area, as well as one of the largest and most ornate.  

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.