Intensive Survey, Town of Guffey, Colorado

Crago, Will; Equilibrium Architecture Inc.

From introduction: "The purpose of this project sponsored by the Park County Historic Preservation Advisory Commission (PCHPAC) was to perform an intensive survey of the properties identified as high priority resources as shown in the Reconnaissance Survey of Park County, Colorado. (Northeast and Southeast Quadrants, dated 15 August, 200 l, CLG Grant Project # C0-00-0022.) However, 14 of the 16 high priority sites are actually ranches that are scattered around a very large area surrounding the Town of Guffey. The remaining two high priority properties are in the town and are included in this Survey. As we looked at those properties, we realized the difficulty in surveying widely scattered ranch property, and began to see that if we concentrated this survey on the properties within Guffey, we might find that a group would emerge as a possible National or Local District or that perhaps an individual resource may be eligible for Notional, State or local designation. It was decided that this survey would indeed concentrate on the town properties, both residential and commercial, and not the ranch properties, which would hove posed not only difficulty in obtaining permission to enter the ranch site, the wide distances would have posed a challenge to completing a survey in the required time frame, and the very nature of the surveys would have been different than those collected within the town, posing additional challenges for the consultant and grant administrator. Guffey presents a quirky and interesting presence within the surrounding ranching area and it was decided that an intensive survey would yield historical information that would be valuable to the historical record of Park County. After extensive review of the entire town, it was determined that this survey would include 25 buildings, 23 within the town limits and two immediately adjacent to the town. These 25 buildings currently sit on 14 properties due to the acquisition of properties by neighboring owners or due to associations of some kind. Therefore, this survey will include 14 Architectural Inventory forms, one for each site." Funding for this project was provided in part through a fiscal year 2006 Historic Preservation Fund grant to Park County (project number CO-06-016) administered by the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 08-06-21508) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Park County, Colorado is a Certified Local Government.

Intensive Survey, Town of Guffey, Colorado

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