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Historic Winter Park Balcony House
Colorado’s Most Endangered Places List was just announced by CBS4 Meteorologist Dave Aguilera at Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Saving Places 2021 virtual Preservation in Action conference. Three new sites were added to the list as noted below.
Since 1998, Colorado Preservation, Inc. has been working with communities throughout the state to save threatened or endangered historic buildings, landscapes, and archaeological sites through its Endangered Places Program. Three new diverse sites were added to the 2021 list today, while two previously listed sites were recognized as SAVED.
2021 marks the 24
th anniversary of Colorado Preservation, Inc.’s Most Endangered Places list. The program provides advocacy, awareness, and technical assistance to significant historic sites throughout Colorado that are in danger of being lost. Colorado Preservation, Inc. devotes staff time and resources to build partnerships,
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Since 1998, Colorado Preservation Inc. has been working with communities across the state to protect endangered historic buildings, landscapes and archaeological sites through its Endangered Places Program.
The Winter Park Balcony House.
In the 23 years that Kim Grant has worked to preserve history in Colorado, he’s seen the idea of preservation, and what to save, change.
Preservation used to focus on “the great fabulous landmarks of the rich and famous” but there s a new evolving philosophy on that ordinary places, landscapes and buildings have stories to tell as well, “particularly if they re part of broader social movements,” Grant said.
“It’s also important to tell (the stories) from a diverse perspective, to make sure that all the people who built Colorado are represented.”
As the director of Colorado s Most Endangered Places program, a part of Colorado Preservation, Inc., Grant believes the nature of threats to historic properties has changed in parallel to the growth of population and development in Colorado. He points to rural areas that have gone through decline, which creates its own pressure on historic resources, while the Front Range and other places lik
What Winter Was Like the Year You Were Born
By Rachel Cavanaugh, Stacker News
On 2/6/21 at 9:00 AM EST
The United States has seen a wide range of winters over the past century everything from warm, mild years where folks could stroll leisurely through parks in February, to turbulent, frigid seasons where people had to hunker down inside. There were years where blizzards swept in unannounced, covering huge swaths of the country in blankets of snow, while other years brought hurricane-force winds to cities and towns across the nation.
The Midwest region is particularly susceptible to cold winters, especially in states like Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Michigan. In these places, residents lie in the path of both the low-pressure systems that originate in Alberta and travel southward (sometimes called Canadian clippers ) and the shortwave low-pressure systems that come from the southwest, traveling northeast toward the Great Lakes region (also cal