The German Evangelical Immanuel Congregational Church is a good example of Late Gothic Revival church architecture.  The church possesses the distinctive characteristics of this style, including pointed arch windows, tracery, square tower, and masonry construction.

The Emerson Theatre (now the Sands Theatre), with its V-shaped marquee sign, has continuously served as Brush’s primary indoor public entertainment venue for almost nine decades.  Started in 1916 by locally prominent citizen Charles W. Emerson, the building housed other small businesses off the lobby that provided food and tobacco for movie-goers.

Constructed in 1928, the Central Platoon School was an early Colorado adapter of the platoon form of student organization.  

The 1915 Antelope Springs Methodist Episcopal Church is a good example of a Late 19th and Early 20th Century American Movements style building as applied to a rural church on Colorado’s plains. 

First established as a resort community, the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad reached the area in 1883 with its narrow gauge tracks and constructed the wood frame depot. 

Constructed in 1935, on Colo. Hwy. 149 in the Rio Grande National Forest, it was moved to Mineral County to provide access to the Marshall Park Campground.

The Rio Grande Hotel was constructed circa 1892 to relieve the extreme housing shortage resulting from the area’s silver mining boom.  The hotel was one of only a few wood structures to survive the town’s devastating 1892 fire. 

After reaching Creede in 1892, the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad provided the mining district with an outlet for its ore while bringing in the necessities and occasional luxuries of life in a Colorado mining district.

The 1902 building exhibits the Romanesque Revival style resulting in an impressive depot in keeping with the importance of Sterling on the Union Pacific system.

The 1918 Sterling Public Library is associated with the nationwide public library movement sponsored by Andrew Carnegie.