Nevadaville Historic Resources Survey, Phase 1: Survey Report

Mountain States Historical; Twitty, Eric; Wolfenbarger, Deon; Three Gables Preservation

From introduction: "The purpose of Phase 1 of Nevadaville’s historic resources survey was to research, record and evaluate historic buildings and mining resources in the unincorporated Gilpin County ghost town of Nevadaville and the surrounding Nevada Gulch. Even though the development of Nevadaville was based solely on the mines that surrounded the towns, previous surveys have never evaluated the entire cultural landscape that developed as a result of its mining history. The buildings in the historic town were previously inventoried in 1986, but that survey did not include any historic research or evaluation of integrity based on original historic appearance. Some of the mining resources have been inventoried in the past, but those inventories were also incomplete. This project is the first to look at the entire cultural landscape of Nevada Gulch, and to provide historic research and evaluations in order to determine eligibility for national, state and local designation for the larger cultural mining landscape. Local landmark designation evaluation is particularly important because, in addition to offering financial incentives, it is a planning mechanism that can protect historic resources from demolition. The survey will also provide information that may assist Gilpin County in other preservation planning efforts, such as the development of educational programs and heritage tourism projects. Finally, the historic information gathered during the survey phase will add to the knowledge of the development of Nevadaville... Twitty and Wolfenbarger conducted field work and archival research between June 2014 and March 2015. Draft survey forms were presented to the Gilpin County Historic Preservation Commission in April 2015 for discussion and comments. The results of the survey are presented in this report, and include recommendations of eligibility for the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and local historic designation. A brief summary of each survey project follows in Chapter 1. Chapter 1 also contains the historic contexts of Nevadaville, and combined survey results and recommendations for both the buildings and mining resources. Separate chapters cover the buildings and mining resources surveys in more detail, with Chapter 2 focusing on the results of the historic building survey, and Chapter 3 covering the historic archaeological mining resources." Project funding was provided in part by a 2014 Historic Preservation Fund grant to the Gilpin County (project number CO-14-018) 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. Gilpin County, Colorado is a Certified Local Government.

Nevadaville Historic Resources Survey, Phase 1: Survey Report

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