Leadville Historic District
Leadville circa 1880[1]
Leadville Historic District is located in Colorado
Leadville Historic District
LocationLeadville, Colorado
Built1860
ArchitectH. A. W. Tabor
Architectural styleLate Victorian
NRHP reference No.66000248
Significant dates
Added to NRHPOctober 15, 1966[2]
Designated NHLDJuly 4, 1961[3]
Chesnut Street, Leadviile 1880[4]

The Leadville Historic District is a National Historic Landmark District located in the mining town of Leadville, Colorado. It includes sixty-seven mines in the mining district east of the city up to the 12,000 foot (3658 m) level, and a defined portion of the village area. It was designated in 1961.[3][5]

Buildings

Principal historic buildings in the district are: Tabor Grant Hotel, St. George's Church, Annunciation Church, Tabor Opera House, City Hall, Healy House, Dexter Cabin, Engelbach House, and Tabor House, as well as mining structures and small homes. Structures built after 1917 are considered non-contributing.

Boot Hill Cemetery

Leadville was the site of a Boot Hill Cemetery, which is perhaps the "most documented" of that in the Old West.[6]

According to an eyewitness:

"At the foot of Chestnut street, a little distance from the Leadville Smeltering Company's works, in an acre plot of ground unfenced, and with the carbonate-like earth thrown up into little heaps. On a closer inspection, the stranger will see that many of these carbonate mounds are marked by pieces of boards, slabs and sticks. Two or three have marble slabs and as many more are marked by pine [wood] boards painted in imitation of marble. ... [It was a] barren red clay-colored plot [with] no flowery lawns, spouting fountains, shady nooks, grassy plats, nor artistically carved marble. ... A worse or less inviting spot for the repose of the dead could not have been found within the environs of our city. Here all the vast transportation of a great mining camp passes in daily bustle and confusionis, and the sleep of our dead forever disturbed by the oaths and the 'black snake' of the irreverant freighter [train]."[7]

The Boot Hill Cemetery in Leadville is now marked by a sign.[8]

References

  1. ^ Hayden, F.V. (1880). The Great West-Its Attraction and Resources. Bloomington, IL: Charles R. Brodin. pp. op 153.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. January 23, 2007.
  3. ^ a b "Leadville Historic District". National Historic Landmark summary listing. National Park Service. Retrieved 2007-10-16.
  4. ^ Hayden, F.V. (1880). The Great West-Its Attraction and Resources. Bloomington, IL: Charles R. Brodin. pp. op 145.
  5. ^ Joseph S. Mendinghall, Gregory Kendrick, and Sara J. Pearce (November 1987) National Register of Historic Places Inventory-Nomination: Leadville Historic District, National Park Service and Accompanying 26 photos, from 1975, 1979, and 1983.
  6. ^ Stott, pg.12-13
  7. ^ Stott, pg.12-13
  8. ^ http://www.flickr.com/photos/97964816@N00/365448448/
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