The Commercial Hotel / Hamilton Hotel is Springfield’s longest functioning and oldest surviving hotel.  Opened in 1920, the hotel operated continuously up to the present.  Known as the Commercial Hotel from 1920 to the mid-1930s, the hotel operated as the Hamilton Hotel from 1943 until 1970.

The site contains evidence of long and diverse human occupation through prehistoric and historic periods.  The location offered a permanent water supply and a variety of natural shelters along the projecting bluff.  The site also contains a large array of rock art whose range of styles demonstrates the evolution of rock art through time.  An 1868 skirmish here between soldiers of the U.S. 7th Cavalry and Cheyenne Indians was the last historically documented Plains Indian / military engagement in southeastern Colorado.

An important example of an early 20th century railroad car type, the 1914 car was designed specifically to handle the collection and distribution of mail in regular passenger train service, while also providing space for passenger baggage handling and express freight.  Its layout and design clearly convey its function. 

At this site on August 15, 1870, the last spike was driven into the first continuous transcontinental railroad. 

Denver architect Jules J.B. Benedict designed this 1920 building to provide space for an assembly hall, town offices, and the fire department. 

Beginning in 1890 and extending through the first half of the 20th century, the district’s history is associated with the development of politics and government, commerce, and transportation within Littleton’s commercial core. 

The circa 1925 Knight-Wood House, a one-and-a-half-story, side-gabled residential building with its associated garage, are excellent local examples of Craftsman style architecture. 

From 1927 until 1973, the home was operated by an international association of hotel workers as a recuperative care facility for its members from throughout the United States.  The International Geneva Association was founded in 1877 in Geneva, Switzerland and spread to the United States during the early 20th century.  Additions, in 1941, to the wood frame Craftsman style building reflected the need for more space and the evolution in health care practices, while retaining the overall residential appearance of the property.

The Arapaho Hills subdivision, constructed between 1955 and 1964, reflects new patterns in the post-World War II period and their influence on the development of new forms of suburban residential subdivisions.  

This 1914 brick schoolhouse served children in the Greenwood Village area until 1967 and now houses a center for the arts.  It became the focus of local community life and reflects the era before school district consolidation.  The school retains its original brick walls, decorative wooden shingles in the gable ends, and stone trim. The property is associated with the Rural School Buildings in Colorado Multiple Property Submission.