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GranadaDOUGLAS CROSSING BRIDGE Constructed in 1936 of locally quarried stone by an eight-man Works Progress Administration crew, this filled arch was faced with rusticated stone and features six, 14-foot span, semicircular arches springing from battered piers. It served as an important crossing for the nearby agricultural community. The property is associated with the Highway Bridges in Colorado and the New Deal Resources in Eastern Colorado Multiple Property Submissions. GRANADA BRIDGE Designed by the Colorado Department of Highways, fabricated by Burkhardt Steel Company, and constructed by C.L. Hubner Company, the 1949 steel stringer bridge runs for 423 feet across the Arkansas River. It was one of several bridges constructed over the river during the 1930s and 1940s that replaced timber or steel trusses constructed between 1890 and 1910. Consisting of five spans, the longest of which extends 90 feet, the bridge is notable for its relatively long spans and excellent state of preservation. Listed under Highway Bridges in Colorado Multiple Property Submission. GRANADA RELOCATION CENTER / CAMP AMACHE  The site is nationally significant as one of ten camps which housed Japanese Americans from 1942 to 1945 following their forced removal from the West Coast by military authorities. More than ten thousand persons passed through the camp which at its peak contained 7,318 Japanese Americans, nearly all of whom were former California residents and two-thirds of whom were United States citizens. Under a presidential executive order, the forced "evacuation" of Japanese Americans was justified on the basis of "military necessity" in the months following Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor and the professed inability of the military to gauge the loyalty of individual Japanese Americans. HartmanHARTMAN GYMNASIUM The circa 1938 gymnasium is associated with New Deal programs in Prowers County. The building is the only example of Works Progress Administration construction in Hartman and one of only a few such projects in the county. Its use as a community center continues to contribute to the social history of Hartman. HollyHOLLY CITY HALL 
The 1938 Holly City Hall held the town's police and fire departments, library, and a multi-use community room. The Holly City Hall served effectively for over sixty years as an important center of town life. The Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) used local labor and materials to construct the hall as a town sponsored project. The building typifies the simple but dignified designs used by the WPA for city hall and courthouse construction. The property is associated with the New Deal Resources in Eastern Colorado Multiple Property Submission. HOLLY GYMNASIUM 
Built under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration, the
building is associated with the federal relief programs administered
in Eastern Colorado during the Great Depression. Providing employment and
increased job skills for the area’s unemployed, construction began on the
Holly Gym in 1936 utilizing a locally quarried chalk–-like stone–Niobrara.
The WPA HOLLY SS RANCH BARN 
The 1879 Holly SS Ranch Barn was part of the earliest period of settlement and development of Prowers County by farmers and ranchers. The SS Ranch with one of the earliest and largest cattle ranches in the region. Hiram Holly established the ranch at a time when Colorado’s early dependence on mining ventures increasingly gave way to agricultural development. The ultimate inception of the town of Holly was an outgrowth of the Holly SS Ranch. The barn is one of the earliest and most well preserved stone barns in southeast Colorado, displaying the construction techniques, architectural details, and material usage of the pioneering period in Colorado. Native stone construction constitutes an important late nineteenth and early twentieth century building tradition in southeastern Colorado. HOLLY SANTA FE DEPOT (Town Hall) The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad built the brick second-generation depot in 1912. The Mission Revival style building was a combination-type depot, handling both passengers and freight. It is one of only four in Colorado possessing the Mission Revival style detailing that became a trademark of the Santa Fe. The community converted the building in 1999 to serve as its town hall. The property is associated with the Railroads in Colorado, 1858-1948 Multiple Property Submission. LamarALTA VISTA SCHOOL Constructed in 1917, the two-level red brick building remains a good local example of a rural school district's commitment to provide the space required to offer its students a broader educational program than found in the one-room building it replaced. The building has remained in continuous use as a public school since its construction and now houses the Alta Vista Charter School. DAVIES HOTEL / PAYNE HOTEL The Davies Hotel is typical of the numerous small town hotels whose location near the railroad depot provided them with a steady stream of lodgers. The builders of the 1902 hotel utilized locally quarried sandstone for the exterior walls. LAMAR POST OFFICE Built in 1936, the building is an especially pleasing example illustrating the Spanish Colonial/Mediterranean influence on Neoclassicism. Pueblo architect Walter DeMordaunt designed the building. The property is associated with the U.S. Post Offices in Colorado and the New Deal Resources of Colorado’s Eastern Plains Multiple Property Submissions. PAULSEN FARM The property has been associated with agriculture in the Lamar area since Claus Paulsen established the farm in 1901. Between 1910 and 1915, Paulsen represented the Payne Investment Company of Omaha, Nebraska, and in this capacity escorted would-be homesteaders from the Midwest to new homes in southeast Colorado. The farmhouse is a good local example of the Foursquare-type of dwelling. The barn is an important surviving example of a once popular but increasingly rare type of wood frame gambrel-roofed barn, a type often replaced by more modern agricultural buildings or lost with the transformation of agricultural lands to other uses. PETTICREW STAGE STOP In the early 1890s, the John L. Petticrew family settled in southern Prowers County and operated a stage stop between Lamar and Springfield. The house, barn and associated rock walls are good, intact examples of sandstone construction utilizing locally quarried stone as designed and executed by the property owner. The barn is also a rare surviving example of a stone bank barn. The complex is notable as a cultural landscape in which the sandstone buildings and retaining walls appear to spring organically from the natural shelter and seclusion of the creek bottom. The recessed location blocks views of modern intrusions and enhances the historical feeling of the complex as an isolated stop on the Lamar to Springfield stage. PROWERS COUNTY BUILDING / PROWERS COUNTY COURTHOUSE The 1929 courthouse served as the center of county political and governmental activity. Denver architect Robert K. Fuller designed the elegant Neo-classical building constructed of Indiana limestone. The entrance and main corridor frieze feature panels displaying carved depictions of the registered cattle brands in Prowers County at the time of the building's construction. WILLOW CREEK PARK 
The park is associated with several Great Depression era federal relief
programs. Constructed between 1933 and 1938 under the Civil Works Administration
(CWA), the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) and the Works Progress
Administration (WPA), creation of the park provided a source of employment in Lamar
during much of the Depression. Willow Creek Park was Colorado’s first CWA project
and the first planned park in Lamar, providing a location for active and passive
recreation activities. A prominent feature of the city, the park’s buildings and
stone features are good examples of the Rustic style as interpreted by New Deal
agencies. Characteristics include the use of native stone; traditional construction
methods; evident hand craftsmanship; and simple functional design. The property is
associated with the
New Deal Resources in Eastern Colorado Multiple Property Submission. (Photograph 2006) WileyWILEY ROCK SCHOOLHOUSE 
The 1938 building served as an annex to the adjacent high school and provided space for classes in agriculture, a blacksmith shop for manual training, and a sound-proof music room for the band and orchestra. While successfully serving these purposes, the building went on to provide other educational opportunities. The Depression-era Works Progress Administration (WPA) undertook the construction of the school district sponsored project. The school typifies the WPA’s use of local labor and local materials. The simple stone building exhibits creative masonry technique and quality craftsmanship. The property is associated with the New Deal Resources on Colorado’s Eastern Plains Multiple Property Submission. |
created an opportunity to provide the town with a more “progressive”
educational facility. This was the first school gymnasium in Holly, which
not only functioned for athletic education, but was also used for music
classes and the hot lunch program. This building was the community’s first
modern recreational facility. The Holly Gym reflects the functional design
and use of local materials that is characteristic of WPA buildings. Some of
the largest examples of New Deal resources in eastern Colorado were the
prominent auditorium/gymnasium buildings. The property is associated with
the