Current Projects
Find out about our current projects below. You can also learn about our Past Projects.
Lincoln Hills Survey and National Register Nomination
The Lincoln Hills Cares Foundation has engaged Front Range to undertake a project within Lincoln Hills, a historic African American summer home development northwest of Denver in Gilpin County, Colorado. Established in 1925, Lincoln Hills is the only extant historic mountain resort that welcomed Black people during the era of segregation. Many Denver African Americans, as well as those from states in the Midwest and South, purchased lots and some built cottages on the forested hillside overlooking South Boulder Creek. The Denver Phyllis Wheatley chapter of the Girl Scouts operated Camp Nizhoni here from the 1920s to the 1940s. Obrey Wendell "Wink" Hamlet built Wink's Panorama (now a National Historic Landmark), a summer lodge and cabins in Lincoln Hills. The project will include a historic buildings survey and preparation of a National Register of Historic Places nomination.
Denver Chinese American Resources Survey
Colorado Asian Pacific United (CAPU) has selected Front Range to conduct an intensive historic buildings survey of sixteen properties historically associated with Denver's Chinese community. The project is a follow up to a survey plan completed in a 2023-24 for Denver's Chinatown. A second component of the current project will be preparation of National or State Register nominations for two resources. The effort is funded by a State Historical Fund grant.
Waneka Farm National Register District Nomination
Front Range is preparing a National Register historic district nomination for the Waneka Farm in Lafayette, Colorado. The farm dates to 1883, when founded by German immigrant Henry "Adolph" Waneka and his wife Annie. Members of the Waneka family operated Waneka Dairy here from 1936-62. The headquarters contains a concrete silo and a collection of other representative farm buildings. The City received a State Historical Fund grant from History Colorado to fund the designation project.
Emerson School National Register Nomination
The Sublette County Historic Preservation Board engaged Front Range to prepare an individual National Register nomination for Emerson School. The one-room log school is located about 14 miles southeast of Boulder, Wyoming. The school served the surrounding ranching area from about 1914 to 1959.
Klondike Mines Railway No. 4 Locomotive National Register Nomination
The South Park Rail Society has engaged Front Range to produce a National Register individual nomination for the Klondike Mines Railway No. 4 locomotive. Currently located at the Como Roundhouse in Como, Colorado, the 2-6-2 narrow gauge locomotive was manufactured in 1912 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for use by the Klondike Mines Railway in the Yukon Territory of Canada. During World War II, the locomotive operated in the Skagway area of Alaska Territory on the White Pass & Yukon Railway. Over the ensuing 105 years, No. 4 experienced several changes in ownership and followed a long and colorful journey before arriving in Como in 2017. The project is funded by the State Historical Fund.
Statewide African American Survey and Nomination Project
History Colorado Front Range contracted with Front Range to conduct a multi-year, multi-component, statewide project documenting resources associated with African American travel and recreation during the era of segregation. The effort follows up on a 2020-21 statewide survey plan completed by Front Range to identify such properties using The Green Book and other travel guides published for African Americans.
This project includes: public meetings; intensive survey of forty properties around the state; completion of a Multiple Property Documentation Form; and preparation of three individual National Register nominations. The survey includes commercial buildings, such as the one shown above in Denver's Five Points neighborhood, as well as motels, tourist homes, garages, and other resource types. Most properties are located in Denver, Pueblo, and Colorado Springs, but resources are also included throughout Colorado, from Brush to Montrose and Granby to Lamar. The project is funded by an Underrepresented Communities Grant from the National Park Service.
This project includes: public meetings; intensive survey of forty properties around the state; completion of a Multiple Property Documentation Form; and preparation of three individual National Register nominations. The survey includes commercial buildings, such as the one shown above in Denver's Five Points neighborhood, as well as motels, tourist homes, garages, and other resource types. Most properties are located in Denver, Pueblo, and Colorado Springs, but resources are also included throughout Colorado, from Brush to Montrose and Granby to Lamar. The project is funded by an Underrepresented Communities Grant from the National Park Service.
