Historic Resource Survey Plan, City of Brighton, Colorado

Avenue L Architects

From section one: The goal of the project is to define and prioritize future historic resource surveys in the City of Brighton and within its potential expansion areas. This will provide the BHPC with a clear and concise plan to document Brighton’s historic resources. The effort will help to create a road map for the BHPC for the next 20 years, beginning with documentation of the most threatened and least-documented resources. This will allow the BHPC to work proactively during the planning process for new developments, rather than reacting after new developments have already been approved. The project has already had its first success story! Building upon the recommendations of the April 2012 draft of this document, the Brighton Community Development Planning Division encouraged a private property owner to commission a survey of the historic National Beet Harvester/Kuner-Empson property at 221 Kuner Road. As a result of the survey, which is duplicated in the appendix, the property will be partially restored and rehabilitated, non-historic enclosures removed to expose the original building, and the entire property given a new purpose... This document is divided into eight sections plus an Appendix. Section 1 provides information on why this project was undertaken, its goals, and an executive summary of findings. It also contains maps showing the geographic limits of the study, the distribution of historic properties in downtown Brighton by decade, and the historic subdivisions within the core city. Section 2 explains the project procedures: how information was collected, organized and analyzed to arrive at the recommended survey priorities. Section 3 contains information on Brighton’s general historic background, key historic people and key events that shaped the city’s built form. Section 4 correlates Colorado statewide historic contexts with the associated property types that still exist within the study area. The contexts of Creation of Colorado 1859-1876; Late 19th Century Boom and Bust 1876-1900; Economic Recovery and Growth 1900-1929; the Great Depression, Federal Relief Programs and the Second World War, 1929-1945; and the New West: Expansion and Modern Development 1945 – 2011. Within each of these contexts and time frames, Section 4 identifies specific extant properties within the study area, organized by property types using the National Register of Historic Places Areas of Significance. Section 5 discusses property types in alphabetical order, with photographs showing a variety of examples of each type. Section 6, the Survey Plan, recommends priorities for surveys and discusses survey types, levels, and districts. Section 7 contains tables of properties that have been previously recorded with State of Colorado site forms, or are on the local “Brighton Watch List”. Section 8 contains the bibliography of sources consulted. The Appendix contains State of Colorado survey forms and instructions, and contacts/links for cultural resources information sources." Project funding was provided in part by a 2011 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the City of Brighton (project number CO-11-013) administered by the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office (grant number 08-11-31912) administered by the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. Brighton, Colorado is a Certified Local Government.

Historic Resource Survey Plan, City of Brighton, Colorado

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