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The Lace House, 161 Main Street, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

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The Lace House, 161 Main Street, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

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Summary

1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place
Significance: The Lace House, constructed in 1890, is significant as a surviving example of the vernacular Gothic Revival architecture associated with the Rocky Mountain mining frontier town of Black Hawk, Colorado. The house was restored in 1975, and is one and one-half story rectangular plan building with a high-pitched intersecting gabled roof covered with wood shingles. The distinctive features are the very ornate bargeboards along the roof line, above arched ten light windows and along the porch roofline. The house is considered a contributing structure in the central city-Black Hawk National Historic Landmark District. The Lace House is part of the Central City-Black Hawk National Historic District and is considered Colorado's premier example of Carpenter Gothic architecture. Fully restored, it is also one of the few structures in Black Hawk remaining from the 1860s.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-18
Survey number: HABS CO-122
Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: 1976-1977 Subsequent Work
National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000246

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Date

1933 - 1970
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Smith, Lucian K
Little Kingdom Historical Foundation
G. F. Filley
Keohan, Thomas G, faculty sponsor
Draper, Joan, faculty sponsor
University of Colorado, College of Environmental Design
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Witkin, Gabrielle, delineator
Metzinger, Mira D, delineator
Miller, Evan E, delineator
Ostendorf, Troy, photographer
Donahoe, Jamie M, historian
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Library of Congress
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html

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