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"21 heliotype illustrations, 1 map and 20 photographs of scenery ... by Osgood."--Hanson Collection catalog, p. 47.

View of Saint Agnes Mission Church, a Catholic church on the Southeast corner of Gunnison Avenue and 6th Street, Saguache (Saguache County), Colorado. The mission-revival style church has art deco cross shaped ornamentation around the entrance, a gabled roof and a stepped pediment. The church has a bell tower and cross. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of the former Denver & Rio Grande Depot in Wagon Wheel Gap, Colorado, 13 miles southeast of Creede (Mineral County), Colorado. The one and one half story railroad station has cross-gable roof, a brick chimney and bracketed entry canopies. A wooden wagon wheel leans against a porch. A caboose is near the building and a flag pole with an American flag is nearby. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of the Prowers House on the Boggsville Historic site in Bent County, Colorado. The two story territorial style structure has peach colored stucco white trim and a porch extending the length of the building. This was the home of John W. Prowers a teamster who worked for William Bent and Charles St. Vrain. The site is on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of the Bent County Courthouse at 725 Carson Street in Las Animas (Bent County), Colorado. The two-story red brick courthouse with Romanesque details has a hip roof, central clock tower, pilasters, pillars, corner towers with semicircular arches, and is trimmed in stone. The building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of the Buckhorn Exchange Saloon and Steakhouse (1886) a National Historic Landmark located at 1000 Osage Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. This two story, commercial style, brick building has a corbeled cornice with corbeled end brackets and dentils and a recessed entry with a large red awning. The awning has an image of a buck and reads: "Buckhorn Exchange Saloon Steakhouse est. 1893; 1000 Osage". A canvas sign on the building reads: " Denver's Original Steakhouse; Spanning 3 Centuries." The building is decorated with white electrical lights, second story awnings and two elk racks. Seated on a bench near the front door are historian Amy Zimmer, Bartender Chris Murphy, and Mrs. Murphy.

View of the Denver Inner City Parish at 910 Galapago Street in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows a stone (rhyolite) Gothic Revival church (1882) with a steeply pitched gable composition roof. There is a bell tower on the southwest corner. There are three lancet windows on the south elevation and oculus windows on the bell tower and the west elevation. A sign reads: "Denver Inner City Parish."

View of the Young House after restoration (1901), 1051 Ninth (9th) Street, located in Ninth Street Historic Park, Auraria Ninth Street Historic District, Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, Colorado. Shows a brick cottage designed by architect J.J. Backus. The small house has hip roofs, a central roof dormer, a covered front porch with neoclassical columns, a cornice and dentils. A cast iron fence is in front of the house.

View of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic Church (St. Elizabeth's Church, architect Father Adrian, O.S.F. 1898) and Friary (Architect, Jacques Benedict 1936), 1060 St. Francis Way, on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus, Denver, Colorado. The church is constructed of rusticated rhyolite and built in the Gothic revival style with Romanesque influences. The building has a gable roof, arched stained glass windows, a central round stained glass window with tracery, and three arched doorways with Corinthian columns. A statue of Saint Elizabeth of Hungary is in a niche over the main doors. The building has a turret and a large stone and shale roofed steeple with clocks. An open arcade with columns is on the side of the building. The Friary (monastery) is attached to the church, rebuilt in1936 on the old foundations by the May Bonfils Trust, the building has a colonnade, a green slate roof, and dentils. The apse of the Shrine to Saint Francis extends from the flat facade and has a large external niche that contains a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi. The entry has a small vestibule with a gabled roof and a compound arch.

North view of the Auraria Higher Education Center from the Parking and Transportation Center (PTC) at 7th and Lawrence Streets, Denver, Colorado. Shows the Tivoli Student Union (formerly the Tivoli-Union Brewery), located at 900 Auraria Parkway. The brewery was built in 1881, with subsequent additions in 1890 by Frederick Eberly, additions and renovations in 1980 by HOK (Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum), interior renovations in the 1990's by HOK, and renovation and restoration 2003-2005 by SlaterPaull Architects. The remodeled building has a large brick chimney with the letters: "Tivoli," a large central tower with a mansard roof, window dormers, and a flagpole. The complex has a second tower with battlements and a small tower with a gabled roof and arched windows. A sign reads: "Tivoli Student Union." The North Classroom Building and Plaza Health Center are nearby. Students walk on the Lawrence Street Pedestrian Mall. The Denver skyline is in the distance. High rise buildings include the May D. & F. Tower, Larimer Place, One Tabor Center, Plaza Tower, Independence Plaza, U.S. Bank, Brooks Towers condominiums, the Four Seasons, condominiums and hotel (under construction with a construction crane), the Executive Tower Inn, the Qwest Building, the Telephone Building, and the Spire, a 41 story condominium complex (under construction)

View of the Friary, at Saint Elizabeth of Hungary Roman Catholic Church (St. Elizabeth's Church), designed by architect Jacques Benedict in 1936 and located at 1060 St. Francis Way, on the Auraria Higher Education Center campus, Denver, Colorado. The church is constructed of rusticated rhyolite and built in the Gothic revival style with Romanesque influences. The Friary (monastery), which is attached to the church, was rebuilt on the old foundations by the May Bonfils Trust. Shows the apse of the Shrine to Saint Francis which extends from the flat facade of the building and has a large external niche that contains a statue of Saint Francis of Assisi. The arched niche is attached to the outside of the building and has a gabled top supported by columns and pilasters. The pediment is elaborately decorated. Etched letters around the niche read: "A. 1891 D.," "Dominus Dei," and "Deus Meus et Omnia." The apse has carved coursing and letters: " Bonfils Memorial." The entry has a small vestibule with a gabled roof and a compound arch. The arches are decorated with carved animals and vines and the arch pediment has the crest of the Franciscan Order, two arms crossed, leaves and crosses. "O.F.M." is carved below the pediment.

View of the restored Schulz House (architect J.J. Backus, 1890), 1045/47 Ninth (9th) Street, located in the Ninth Street Historic Park, Auraria Ninth Street Historic District, Auraria Higher Education Center, Denver, Colorado. Shows a brick double house with a gray, plastered front, a flat roof, cornice and large false brackets. Brick coursing is between the windows which have lintels. The house has matching entry porches with gables, pediments, cornices with an open fret-work soffits, scroll-sawn brackets, turned support posts and balustrades and hand rails for the front steps. A cast iron fence is in front of the house. Snows covers the porch roofs and ground.

View of City Hall Annex No. 1 (1949; Casper Hegner, Thomas Moore, G. Meredith Musick, Dudley Smith) at 1445 Cleveland Place; the sculpture East 2 West Source Point (2003; Larry Kirkland, Carrara marble, bronze, and gold leaf); and the Wellington Webb Municipal Office Building (2002; David Owen Tryba Architects and RNL Design) at 201 West Colfax in the Central Business District neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. City Hall Annex no. 1 is a glass, aluminum and concrete International Style building that was restored at the time of the construction of the Webb Building and is incorporated into the new building. The Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building is an aluminum and glass curtain wall, curved, twelve story structure. The sculpture, "East 2 West Source Point", is of a mythical Janus head.

View of the Gertrude Apartments located at 2545 Champa Street (architect-Frederick C. Eberly, 1880) in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The former residence, an example of the Italianate style, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District. The two-story brick building was the home of business man Fritz Theis, a wholesale liquor distributor, until his death in 1921. The columns that supported the front entry porch have been removed and subsequently chains added for support. The building has a mansard roof, a decorative cornice and balcony. Originally a single family residence, the house was divided into multiple units and renamed the Gertrude Apartments.

View of 2525 Champa Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District. The two-story brick Queen Anne house (c. 1885) has a full porch with a pediment above the entry, a bay with a pediment, cornice and fishscale shingles. There is an oriel window on the second floor and an oculus above the porch pediment.

View of the Byers-Evans House Museum at 1310 Bannock Street in the Civic Center neighborhood of Denver, Colorado (1989; restoration by Long Hoeft Architects). The two-story Italianate house has a front, second story bay over a porch, iron roof cresting, pointed stone lintels over the windows and corbeled chimneys. A sign in front of the building reads: "Byers-Evans House," "The House in the Heart of the City" and "Tours - Teas - Drama.". The house was built in 1883 for William Newton Byers, founding editor of the Rocky Mountain News. William Gray Evans, son of Colorado Territorial Governor John Evans, purchased the home in 1889. The house museum is owned by the Colorado Historical Society

View of the front elevation of the Patrick Ford House (ca. 1886), 2627 Champa Street, in the Five Points neighborhood (Curtis Park) of Denver, Colorado. The asymmetrical, two-story house has Gothic Revival and Queen Anne elements and a cross-gabled roof with a prominent front gable. The full-width front porch, which does not appear to be original, is supported by columns with lace-like brackets. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.

View of the Anfenger House (1884), 2900 Champa Street, in the Five Points Neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Milton Louis and Louise Anfenger, both immigrants from Germany, were active in the Jewish community of early Denver. They were involved in the formation of National Jewish Hospital and the nearby Temple Emanuel Synagogue (Curtis Street and 24th Street). Milton was a prominent attorney, Colorado state senator, humanitarian, and a civic leader. The two-story red, brick Italianate house features front and side facing wings, sill and lintel, tall narrow double-hung windows with molded crowns and carved ornaments. The one-story, off-center porch has slender, incised supports. The residence was restored in the 1970's and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.

View of the front and side elevation of the Orahood House, located at 2903 Champa Street, in the Five Points neighborhood (Curtis Park) of Denver, Colorado. Harper M. Orahood, a prominent attorney, had this house built in 1882. The structure is an Italianate villa-style, red brick, two-story residence with a wrap around porch. The truncated and hipped roofs of the house and the porch have matching elaborately bracketed cornices. At one time the house had a brick tower in the front right corner. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.

View of 2816 Curtis Street (ca. 1880) in the Five Points (Curtis Park) neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The wooden one-story vernacular cottage has a cross-gabled roof and a small porch at the side. The residence is listed on the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing resource to the Curtis Park-Champa Street Historic District.

A wooden cross lies against the hard plastered adobe wall of the Garcia Morada (Los Hermanos Penitentes) in Garcia (Costilla County), Colorado. The Sangre de Cristo Mountains are in the distance.

View of the General Electric Building at 1441 18th Street in the Union Station neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The three-story brick building was constructed by the Denver Rock Drill and Machinery Company circa 1906. General Electric later used the building as its primary distribution center for electrical supplies. The building has story high street level windows. The second and third story windows have brick pilasters, which form narrow vertical elements and are topped with rounded arches. Decorative elements are in the middle and top of the vertical elements. The structure is in the Lower Downtown Historic District and listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

"This update lists additions and changes to the D.C. Inventory of Historic Sites since publication of the 2004 edition. It includes errata and all revisions made to the Inventory between September 1, 2004 and September 10, 2007."

View of the Chamberlin Observatory, 2930 East Warren Ave, in the Observatory Park Neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The 1890 observatory has a rusticated sandstone exterior with an iron observatory dome, an arched entry with a voussoir arch, and a parapet with a cornice and dentils. A sign etched into the stone over arch reads: "Chamberlain Observatory." The building was donated to the University of Denver by Humphrey B. Chamberlin.

A curriculum guide principally for teachers of 4th and 5th grades.

View of the William G. Fisher House / International House (1896; Frank E. Edbrooke and Willis A. Marean, architects) at 1600 Logan Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the front (west) elevation of a three-story Neoclassical-style building with a flat roof, stone block walls, and stone arches, cornices, and stringcourses. The distinctive two-story, semicircular entry portico is supported by two pilasters and two Ionic columns with large volutes. The portico is topped by a balustraded balcony. Stone lions are crouched along the entry steps. In 1997 architect David Owen Tryba restored and rehabilitated the mansion for use as his studio and private residence.

View of Fitzroy Place (1892) also known as the Warren-Iliff Mansion at 2160 South Cook Street in the University Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Shows the facade of a red sandstone residence with a composition roof. Features include a gabled dormer window, a covered porch, bays, a voussoir arched entrance and a porte cochere. The Albany, New York architectural firm of Fuller and Wheeler designed this Richardsonian Romanesque-style mansion for Henry White Warren, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and his wife Elizabeth Illiff-Warren, the widow of John Wesley Iliff.

Detailed view of the seat and rails of the rustic shelter (1906) in Cheesman Park, 1000 High Street, in the Cheesman Park Neighborhood, of Denver, Colorado. Reinhard Schuetze, a landscape architect, designed the park and this log-and-wood gazebo. The six-sided gazebo has a circular roof and log-and-stick railing. In 2005, architect Nan Anderson (Andrews and Anderson) and craftsman Douglas Fowler (White Construction Group) restored the structure. The shelter is a designated Denver Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of the Daniels and Fisher Tower (1911; architects, Frederick J. Sterner and George Williamson, 1981; restoration by Gensler and Associates) at 1601 Arapahoe Street in the Central Business District of Denver, Colorado. Shows the entrance to the Renaissance Revival tower from the Sixteenth (16th) Street Mall. The walls are terracotta. The entrance has a revolving door. The tower is all that remains of the Daniels and Fisher department store complex, which was demolished by Denver Urban Renewal Authority.

View of the Perrenoud Apartments at 836 East Seventeenth Street in the North Capitol Hill neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. Shows a Neoclassical style four-story brick apartment building with a hipped roof, dormer, decorative cornice, and quoins. The building was designed by architect Frank Snell in 1901 for the three daughters of Denver businessman, John Perrenoud. The structure is in the Swallow Hill Historic District.

View of the Elbert Presbyterian Church (formerly the St. Mark United Presbyterian Church : 1880) located at 24281 Main Street in Elbert (Elbert County), Colorado. The white clapboard structure with a wood shingled roof has an offset spire with an open belfry. The building has a round arched front entrance and Gothic arched semi-stained glass side windows. The church is on the National Historic Register.

View of the First Evangelical Lutheran Church (1875-1899) located at 400 2nd Street, Gypsum (Eagle County), Colorado. This white Gothic Revival church has a high pitched steeple with a wooden cross and a Gothic arched front door and pointed arch stained glass widows. The church is on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of St. Patrick Mission Church (1907-1910: Henry James Manning, Francis C. Wagner, architects; restoration 1979: Congleton Architect) at 3325 Pecos Street in the Highland neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The mission style church has curvilinear parapets with copper domed towers, an arched entrance and red tile roofs.

View of the Herman Heiser House, 3016 Osceola Street in the West Highland Neighborhood (Wolff Place Historic District), Denver, Colorado. This Queen Anne Style house has a bell-cast roof over the second story porch and over the tower on the southwest corner of the house. The tower has pilasters and dentils. A three story bay with a cornice and dentils is on the south side of the building.

View of the rustic shelter (1906) in Cheesman Park, 1000 High Street, in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Reinhard Schuetze, a landscape architect, designed the park and the log-and-wood gazebo. The six-sided gazebo has a circular roof and log-and-stick railing. This photograph was taken shortly after architect Nan Anderson (Andrews and Anderson) and craftsman Douglas Fowler (White Construction Group) restored the structure in 2005. The shelter is a designated Denver Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

View of the west elevation of the Cheesman Memorial Pavilion (1910; Willis A. Marean and Albert J. Norton architects) located in Cheesman Park, 1000 High Street, in the Cheesman Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. The pavilion is a designated Denver Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.