"La Hacienda" was constructed as a summer home in 1902, on a high hill overlooking the confluence of the Platte River and Buffalo Creek.  It was designed by noted Denver architect Frederick J. Sterner for John L. Jerome. 

The land was originally registered as a mining claim.  It later was homesteaded and cattle ranched by Edwin Eugene Culver.  The surviving one-story ranch house, with a medium pitch gabled roof, rests on a fieldstone foundation. 

John W. Green, Sr. arrived in Buffalo Creek in the 1880’s and operated a hotel and general merchandise store until they were destroyed by fire in 1897.  In 1898, he constructed a new two-story building with walls of native granite cut into 18" squares. 

The Stocke Addition was formally platted in 1904, and the Walter subdivision dates from 1920.  Development of the neighborhood was aided by its proximity to the interurban electric railway which ran just to the west. 

The Seventh Day Adventist Church - Arvada Jaycee Hall is significant for its long association as a civic and social meeting hall.  The Seventh Day Adventist Church constructed the building in 1902 as a church and continued using it until 1944 when it sold it to the Arvada Jaycees.  Since 1944, the Arvada Jaycees has continued owning and utilizing the building for its meeting hall. 

The one-story yellow brick residence has raised basement walls of rock faced concrete block.  Notable architectural elements include a bell cast hipped roof, multiple dormers, and a prominent wraparound porch with classical columns.

This residential district, located just west of the Arvada Downtown historic district, is primarily associated with Arvada’s growth after the development of local transportation systems.  Its physical layout consists of an evenly distributed grid of lots and tree lined streets. 

The Lewis Ralston Gold Discovery Site is the location of one of the early Euro-American gold discoveries in Colorado. 

Ralston Cemetery is significant for exploration/settlement and for its potential to yield information important to history and prehistory along with the potential to yield information about rural burial practices as related to social history. 

The original brick meeting hall was constructed in 1915 by Fremont Grange No. 181, and the concrete block portion at the rear dates from 1952.