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Museum and Environs

The Estes Park Area Historical Museum main building.

The restored original headquarters of Rocky Mountain National Park.

Map showing location of Museum.

Estes Park Photos Volume 1 and Volume 2

Looking northwest, c. 1900. The large building, near what is now the park in the center of town, is the school.

A closer view of the school, on the right, and the post office on the left.

Looking east on Elkhorn Avenue, c. 1905. Note the covered wagon and numerous horse-drawn vehicles.

Elkhorn Avenue, 1906, looking east

Looking northwest c. 1908. Samuel Service's General store is the white building on the right. The sign on the side of the building advertises baled hay, campers supplies and gasoline. There is an automobile on the street.

Elkhorn Avenue, 1906, looking west

Looking southwest in 1910. Mr. Service's store now has a gasoline pump in front of the store and a car is being filled with gasoline. The Estes Park Steam Laundry is on the left. The small house alone on the hill is beside the road that will become Moraine Avenue.

c. 1913; Looking northwest. Photographed by W.T. Parke

c. 1919; Looking up Elkhorn Avenue. Source: E.J. Reiland

c. 1920; Moraine Avenue, the Hupp Hotel after a snowfall. Source: Trail-Gazette

c. 1920; Estes Park as photographed from Little Prospect Mountain by F.P. Clatworthy.

c. 1920; Panorama of Estes Park from Little Prospect Mountain. Taken by Miller Studio, Balto, Maryland.

c. 1922; Moraine Avenue with period automobiles, the Theatre, and the Hupp Hotel. Source: Trail-Gazette

c. 1940; Elkhorn Avenue. Source: Trail-Gazette

c. 1940s; Elkhorn Avenue east. Source: Trail-Gazette

Stanley Hotel

Artist's rendition (on an early postcard) of the Stanley Hotel.

The lobby of the Stanley Hotel. (1920s).

Playing golf at the Stanley.

F.O. Stanley

Display/Exhibit Photos

bulletFlood! exhibit photo
bulletOlder visitors to Estes Park may remember the Dark Horse Bar and Dance Pavilion. This booth was part of that establishment.
bulletA virtual exhibit about four women homesteaders in the Estes Park area.
bulletVisitors browse the Museum Shop.
bulletKatherine Garetson with an unidentified companion (who may be John Grant, her nearest neighbor to the south who homesteaded in 1914) c. 1914, courtesy of the Dings family.

Other Photos

Enos Mills

Stanley Steamer

Poster announcing 1948 Riverside Dance

Mrs. Ruth Smith and son Dudley of Denver, with the model of the museum's renovated main display area they sponsored.

 

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