Built by Jackson and Sharp, Coach No. 280 was placed in use by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad in 1881.  Its service ended with the Denver & Rio Grande Western on the Durango to Silverton route in 1951. 

Built in 1886, Caboose No. 0578 ran in freight service over all of the Rio Grande’s narrow gauge network until its retirement in 1951.  It is a rare surviving example of a Class 2 Rio Grande caboose.

Narrow gauge caboose No. 49 was built by the Denver & Rio Grande Railway in 1881.  The four-wheeled caboose served the railroad for fifty-seven years before being retired in October 1938.  It was recently restored to its 1880s appearance.

The 1881 Denver and Rio Grande Railroad Coach No. 307, originally No. 83, operated for 83 years, first as a passenger coach and then as a maintenance-of-way vehicle.  It is one of only two remaining cars manufactured by Jackson and Sharp which has not been extensively rebuilt or altered.

This 1881 narrow gauge coach, designed and constructed by Delaware car builder Jackson and Sharp, provided eighty-six continuous years of passenger service for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad.

The car was purchased by the D&RG in 1872 and is considered to be the oldest remaining narrow gauge passenger car in the country.

The Sculptured House is exceptionally significant for its high quality modernist design.  The work of self-taught Colorado architect and engineer Charles Deaton, the 1966 Sculptured House occupies a key place in the history of Colorado architecture as one of the most widely recognized and respected modernist buildings in the state.  The house includes many of the defining characteristics of post-war Expressionist design, a stylistic variant of modernism. 

In 1919, master architect, Jules J.B. Benedict incorporated a circa 1912 bungalow into his inspired design for this mountain lodge-like residence located in an established residential area near the campus of the Colorado School of Mines.

At less than half an acre, the park is the smallest within the Denver Mountain Park system.  Large Ponderosa pine trees and distinctive rock outcrops appear on the site, which was acquired in 1913. 

Golden’s Colorado National Guard Armory building was constructed in 1912.  The reported 6,600 tons of local cobblestones utilized in its construction required the hauling of some 3,300 wagon loads from nearby Clear Creek.