La Veta Town Survey

The Center of Preservation Research, College of Architecture and Planning, University of Colorado Denver

From introduction: "The first survey of historic properties in La Veta was conducted as part of the Huerfano County Historical Society’s Huerfano County Survey in 1981; 53 properties in La Veta were included. In 1998, the Town of La Veta passed a preservation ordinance creating a Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) and establishing a historic district. Dale Zinn, an architect from New Mexico, conducted a reconnaissance-level survey of the district and evaluated buildings as contributing, supporting, or non-contributing. A total of 212 resources within the district were surveyed: 57 were identified as contributing and 58 identified as supporting. Zinn also surveyed 22 additional buildings outside of the historic district and evaluating them either as landmarks (7 buildings) or buildings of merit (15 buildings). Over the next decade the HPC collected and organized additional research and photographs on the town’s historic resources. In 2009, La Veta received Certified Local Government (CLG) status. In 2010, the HPC initiated designation of individual properties, recognizing resources within the district as Contributing and resources outside the district as Landmarks. HPC recommended properties for designation based on the results of the 1981 and 1998 surveys, but only properties with property owner approval were designated. At this time, 45 resources within the district were designated as contributing and 3 resources outside the district were designated as landmarks. In 2013, an additional resource within the district was designated as contributing... A total of 60 properties were surveyed. This included the 49 properties currently locally designated as well as 11 additional properties that were evaluated to determine their eligibility for potential future designation. The Francisco Fort Museum was recorded on a single inventory form, but is designated locally as 6 separate resources. Of the 49 properties currently designated, 47 are recommended as retaining their Contributing or Landmark status; 2 are recommended as having lost their Contributing status due to unsympathetic alterations. The additional 11 properties surveyed are all recommended as eligible for local designation as Contributing to the historic district. Furthermore, 15 of the surveyed resources are recommended as eligible for National Register designation (14 of these properties are currently designated locally; 1 currently has no designation). Two resources within the district, the Lamme Hospital and Francisco Fort, have been previously listed on the National Register." Project funding was provided in part by a 2014 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Town of La Veta (project number CO-14-019) administered by the Colorado State Historic Preservation Office (grant number P14AF00031) and the State, Tribal, and Local Plans and Grants Division, National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. La Veta, Colorado is a Certified Local Government.

La Veta Town Survey

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