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Welch place on LaGrow Rd., Gypsum, built in 1893. The logs for construction came from Hardscrabble Mountain. The house was moved to Carbondale.
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The Upper Gypsum School soon after its construction in 1910. Italianate style with cupola bell tower. The building is presently at 115 Eagle Street, Gypsum. It was used as part of Gypsum School District 5 until the districts reorganized. It then became the Bible Chapel and then was used by the Annointed Christian Fellowship. This photo may have been taken at the same time as 1990.001.045. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County...
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Howard Barsley standing in the railyard at Gypsum.
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A view of the town of Gypsum, looking south. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Publicity photograph of Eldon L. Bindley, Gypsum, Colorado, mayor from 1978 to 1980; 1982 to 1986. At 25 yrs. of age and running unopposed, Bindley listed his qualifications for office as his experience as a trustee and his time on the finance committee. His main goals were implementation of the town's proposed zoning ordinance and improving the town's water system.
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Front view of the Lutheran Church in Gypsum. The church was built in 1888; this photo was printed on Oct. 8, 1941. Sidewalks and paved street are visible.
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Eagle County Commissioner Sara Fisher portraying Lillian Anderson, caretaker of the County Poor Farm, during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Lillian Anderson died February 26, 1962. She and her husband, John, were...
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A family group photo taken on the same porch as 1990.001.041. Back row, from left: Mrs. Ulin, Charley Ulin, Olaf Ulin, Louise Ulin, Susy Larson, Fannie Gerard, Betty Oleson, Anna Bobson, Emma Anderson, Anna Lindgren, Margareta Hendrickson, either Lydia Landerback or Anna Norgaard Front row, from left: Minnie Ulin, Fred Davenport, Edith Davenport holding Art Davenport [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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Student body at the Lower Gypsum School in 1926. Mrs. Bob Phillips is somewhere in the photo with her head lowered.
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Photo postcard of the Gypsum Hotel (formerly the Skiff Hotel) after the fire in 1912. Eagle Valley Enterprise, Feb. 9, 1912, p.1: GYPSUM TOWN HAS BIG FIRE. Early Sunday Morning Blaze Destoys Three Buildings and Portion of Contents. The most disastrous fire in the history of Gypsum or Eagle county took place in that town last Sunday morning at four o'clock, and before the fire was discovered it gained such headway that every effort to quench the flames...
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The J. P. Oleson building after a second floor apartment fire in September 1918. This was the first home of J. P. Oleson. with the store on the firs floor. An automobile is at left.
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"Shed on the subject property." -- Appendix, Appraisal of the value of the Schmidt Properrty required by the Eagle County Airport Authority, by John Peeples, I.C.A., April 24, 1984 Photograph was taken in September 1983. "From the looks of the abstracts, we held the complete ranch for the longest continuing time--25 years. The reason we left was that the County condemned and bought our best hay fields for runways for the expanding airport. Vail...
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Lundgren's Warehouse was built by Adolph Lundgren and George Beale as part of the Lundgren Store. In addition to groceries and merchandise, Lundren and Beale ran a lumberyard and sold hardware. The warehouse building later burned down.
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Driver with horse team hauling full potato sacks during the harvest on Bobson Ranch near Gypsum. [Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
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135) Bonar
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Photo labeled "Bonar, Gypsum." The photo appears to be of World War II vintage. Wyon E. Bonar came to Colorado in 1906 and was first employed on the Frank Doll ranch in Gypsum. He opened a barber shop in Red Cliff from 1911 to 1920, and then relocated to Caspter, Wyoming. He returned to Colorado and bought a pool hall and barber shop in Gypsum from Charles Doll in 1923. He had two children, Wyon and Betty Bonar Oliver, with Lenna Lupton Bonar. This...
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Brian Hall of the Porchlight Players, portraying both mountain man John Root during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. John Root was born in 1835 and died December 1919. He came to the Eagle River valley while the Ute...
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Terri Vroman portraying Lucy Doll during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery. Lucy Ellen Slusser Doll was born October 22, 1859 and died June 22, 1939. She came to Gypsum with her husband, rancher Frank Doll, in 1887.They...
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Publicity photograph of Richard S. "Dick" Morris, Mayor of Gypsum, Colorado, from 1980 to 1982. Morris worked for the Colorado Department of Highways engineers. He was elected to the Town Board in 1976, re-elected in April 1980 for a second four year term. He replaced former Mayor Jim Cummins, who resigned after a month in that position because he moved out of the area.
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Verso: top=north; road goes to homesite; south the gravel pit in action; taken from little hill end of run way to the right"
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Lundgren's Store was built in 1900. It was the first two-story building in Gypsum. The upstairs was used as a school.