Current Projects

Find out about our current projects below. You can also learn about our Past Projects. 

Lincoln Park Barn PPE Form

The firm is preparing a Preliminary Property Evaluation form (PPE) for the Lincoln Park Barn in Grand Junction, Colorado, for a group of concerned citizens. Constructed in 1923 as the Lincoln Park Exhibition Hall (for the Mesa County Fair), the building became the Lincoln Park Auditorium the following year, after installation of a dancing floor and stage. The Auditorium hosted a diverse range of activities and events for more than a century, including meetings, dances, sporting competitions, banquets, and political gatherings. The building’s significance to local residents was manifested in a grassroots community effort to raise funds to rehabilitate the facility when it was threatened with demolition in the mid-1970s. 

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 Rocky 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 includes 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.

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.