Aspen City Hall
| Aspen City Hall | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 View from the southwest (2010) |
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| location | Aspen , Pitkin County , Colorado | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 11 '22 " N , 106 ° 49' 6" W | ||
| Built | 1890s | ||
| NRHP number | 75000529 | ||
| The NRHP added | 5th June 1975 | ||
Aspen City Hall , also known in the past as Armory Hall and Fraternal Hall , is a building at the intersection of South Galena Street and East Hopkins Avenue in Aspen , Colorado in the United States . It is a brick building dating from the 1890s and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on June 5, 1975 .
The building was built to serve as the headquarters of the local militia and was also used as a meeting place for the population. It served a number of community functions and eventually became City Hall Aspens in the mid-20th century. After Aspen became a bustling winter sports resort later in the 20th century, some departments of the city administration had to be relocated to other office buildings and renovations were necessary, particularly inside the building.
Building
The building is on the northeast corner of the intersection, one block south of Main Street ( Colorado State Highway 82 ), where the Pitkin County Courthouse is also on the National Register of Historic Places . The terrain is level and the neighborhood is densely built up; most buildings are one or two story commercial buildings. The buildings form a regular mixture of houses from the time in which the former armory was built and matching later additions, most of which are made of bricks. A small lane with no name directly north of the building allows passage in the middle of the street block to South Hunter Street. Tall trees shield the building from the surrounding streets and this alley.
The building itself is a two-and-a-half-story rectangular building with four by five bays made of red brick in the American Union on a stone base. The roof is clapboard and flat in the middle, but steeply sloping on the sides. It is drawn down to the eaves in the north and south . Three dormers with a gable roof and narrow double-casement windows sit on either side.
On the façade facing the west , the window arrangement consists of sliding windows, each with a sliding window, with the centrally located entrance being set back. The windows above have slightly curved windows. Pilaster brick, whose appearance of the corner stones is taken of the structure, to rise up to the roof, where a by corbels based cornice with a parapet forms the transition to the roof in the flat portion of the roof. On the north and south sides there are four double arched windows similar to those on the upper floor and separated from each other by brick pilasters. The interior has changed significantly since the building was built.
history
The structure was built within three months in 1892, towards the end of the Colorado Silver Boom , which had turned Aspen, which had not existed 15 years earlier, into a burgeoning mining town . The building was built to serve as a gathering place for the local militia and a meeting place for the local population for communal purposes. The names Armory Hall and Fraternal Hall come from this period.
After the population of Aspen dwindled after the boom in the early years of the 20th century, the building served various municipal functions, so it was spared the neglect and demolition that fell victim to many other boom-era buildings. It has been the City Hall of Aspen since 1956.
At the beginning of the 1990s, the interior of the building was renewed to meet the requirements of a modern city administration after the population of Aspen increased again. Aspen owed this increase to its popularity as a winter sports destination and its reputation as a fashionable vacation spot in the mountains. Within a decade the city administration had grown to such an extent that the individual departments of the administration were distributed to a number of other buildings in the city. 2008 Aspen invested more than 500,000 dollars in the renovation of the interior. The city council's meeting room was refurnished and equipped with modern electronics, and the five remaining city administration departments also received new office facilities.
See also
Web links
supporting documents
- ^ Armory Hall, Fraternal Hall on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 29, 2017.
- ^ A b Pitkin County ( English ) Colorado Office of Archeology and Historic Preservation . Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- ^ A b Aspen City Hall - City of Aspen, CO ( English ) Loris & Associates. 2011. Retrieved February 28, 2011.
- ^ Caroline Sackariason: Aspen's million-dollar makeover . In: Aspen Daily News , April 14, 2008. Archived from the original on July 7, 2011 Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved February 27, 2011.
