The 2025 Colorado Preservation, Inc., Endangered Places list includes the Knearl Opera House/Desky Hotel in Brush, Colorado. Front Range prepared a State Register nomination for the building in 2019. Built by William H. "Billy" Knearl as an opera house in 1902, the building housed the post office and a mercantile before conversion to a hotel in the 1920s by local Jewish merchant Nathan Desky. The vertical metal sign dates to 1928 and is a rare extant example of a Federal Electric Company sectional lamp letter sign, consisting of 16"-high porcelain-enameled steel panels. A link to the Endangered Place video appears below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmrdBzA7zRY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmrdBzA7zRY
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