Qualla: Leadville Historic District https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:04 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/u/r/leadville-historic-district-wp/2022-09-10-12-02-42-painting-o.jpg Qualla: Leadville Historic District https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district Leadville Historic District: Introduction https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district/ Photo credit Rolf Blauert Dk4hb, Public domain. Horace Tabor built his wife Augusta a Carpenter Gothic home on East 5th Street in 1877, then abandoned her for a woman the newspapers called "Baby Doe." The scandal rocked the nation, but in Leadville, it was just another Tuesday. At over 10,000 feet in the Colorado Rockies, this mining town burned through fortunes and reputations with equal speed, and the buildings lining Harrison Avenue still carry the evidence. The Leadville Historic District, designated a National Historic Landmark in 1961, encompasses 67 mines stretching east of the city up to the 12,000-foot level, plus a dense collection of Victorian-era commercial buildings, churches, and mansions that together tell one of the most turbulent stories in the American West.

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/u/r/leadville-historic-district-wp/9wur-leadville-historic-district-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Leadville Historic District: Harrison Avenue's Stone Witnesses https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district/ Photo credit Steven C. Price, CC BY-SA 3.0. Walk down Harrison Avenue and the architecture reads like a timeline of ambition. The Tabor Grand Hotel, a four-story brick building designed by architect George King, has cycled through names -- the Maxwell, the Kitchen, the Vendome -- each one marking a new owner's attempt to c...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/u/r/leadville-historic-district-wp/9wur-leadville-historic-district-harrison-avenues-stone-witnesses.mp3 0:06 2 full Leadville Historic District: The Tabor Triangle https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district/ Photo credit Steven C. Price, CC BY-SA 3.0. No single family stamped itself on Leadville more indelibly than the Tabors. Horace Tabor, a shopkeeper who grubstaked the right prospectors and became a silver millionaire, built the opera house, the grand hotel, and a home for his wife Augusta. But in 1881, he moved to the Wind...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/u/r/leadville-historic-district-wp/9wur-leadville-historic-district-the-tabor-triangle.mp3 0:06 3 full Leadville Historic District: Where the Dead Rest Uneasy https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district/ Photo credit Steven C. Price, CC BY-SA 3.0. Leadville's Boot Hill Cemetery is considered perhaps the most documented of all Boot Hill cemeteries in the Old West. An 1880 eyewitness described it as "an acre plot of ground unfenced, and with the carbonate-like earth thrown up into little heaps," marked by "pieces of boards, ...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/u/r/leadville-historic-district-wp/9wur-leadville-historic-district-where-the-dead-rest-uneasy.mp3 0:06 4 full Leadville Historic District: Sacred Ground at Altitude https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district/ Photo credit Steven C. Price, CC BY-SA 3.0. The district's churches reflect the diversity of those who came seeking fortune. Temple Israel, built in 1884 in Carpenter Gothic style, served a Jewish community drawn to the mining economy. The Annunciation Church, a Gothic Revival structure from 1880, anchored the Catholic pop...

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]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/w/u/r/leadville-historic-district-wp/9wur-leadville-historic-district-sacred-ground-at-altitude.mp3 0:06 5 full Leadville Historic District: A District Frozen in Time https://qualla.com/leadville-historic-district/ Photo credit Steven C. Price, CC BY-SA 3.0. When the National Register of Historic Places program launched in 1966, the Leadville Historic District was among the very first listings, included on day one alongside all other existing National Historic Landmarks. The district was later expanded to incorporate additional struc...

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