This 1908 Hipped Roof Box form house is one of only a few examples in Silt and the only one with a large decorative cupola, much larger than the typical cupola.

Constructed in 1940, the building is the most detailed and complete of the five identified, small Colonial Revival influenced post offices in Colorado.  Listed under U.S. Post Offices in Colorado Thematic Resource.

The bridge includes two different types of spans, the Pennsylvania and the Parker.  Charles G. Sheely completed this pin-connected, steel twelve-panel Pennsylvania and ten-panel Parker through truss in 1909.

Remaining on the site are a concrete pumphouse and forebay, along with supporting structures such as a cistern and concrete support blocks for conduits.

The Wasson-McKay Place is significant as representing good examples of Pioneer Log and modest Late Victorian architecture. The circa-1900 Pioneer Log icehouse/cabin with whole log walls and hog trough construction exemplifies typical construction techniques of outbuildings and early settlers’ cabins in the area.

The Western Hotel provided area residents, visitors, and guests with accommodations as a restaurant, saloon, soda bottling shop, grocery store and rooming house before operating as a working-class hotel.

Built in 1904, the two-story wood frame house, with its Colonial Revival style front porch, is a variation of the Foursquare residential building type. 

The 1935 Sumers Lodge is a well-preserved example of a Rustic style, log kit house designed by Chilson Aldrich. 

The Queen Anne style 2½-story, wood frame residence includes a large wraparound porch and a complex roof line. 

In 1914, the Missouri Valley Bridge and Iron Company secured the contract to construct a bridge across the Colorado River west of Glenwood Springs in order to replace the existing ferry service.