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MPS F"1a aoa. aue APw9vw w iov-wvs <br /> (seel <br /> United States Department of the Interior <br /> National Park Service <br /> National Register of Historic Places <br /> Continuation Sheet <br /> Section number 8 Page 13 <br /> occupants, it still stands on Main Street. A second frame structure that <br /> survived the fire was the one-story law office of Henry M. Teller (C5-2) , <br /> also on Eureka Street adjacent to Washington Hall. <br /> The overwhelming predominance of white Anglo-Americans and immigrants from <br /> the British Isles and northern Europe in the Gregory mining district was <br /> typical of other frontier mining settlements of the era. These ethnic <br /> groups left their imprint on the mining district in the social and cultural <br /> institutions they established as the hallmarks of community development, in <br /> their economic and attitudinal homogeneity, and in the district <br /> architecture. Buildings constructed were simple vernacular, but many had <br /> stylistic features that imitated earlier eastern U.S. and western European <br /> tastes brought by those who migrated to the Gregory mining district. <br /> Residential construction in the second decade of community growth in the <br /> three towns reflected the socioeconomic homogeneity of the population. The <br /> small, wood frame, vernacular cottage, with Gothic Revival or Greek Revival, <br /> details was the most common residential type architecture. Some of the more <br /> elite housing adapted Italianate, Second Empire, and other high styles, also <br /> popular in the East in an earlier period. There also are examples of a <br /> return to more modest design in residential construction as the towns <br /> experienced their long decline into the 20th century. While there were <br /> evident elite sections of the towns, most notably lower Eureka Street, East <br /> High, and Lawrence in Central City, above the soot and odor of the Black <br /> Hawk mills, most laboring and small merchant class dwellings were <br /> substantial as well, albeit smaller in scale. <br /> The large Cornish population meant that the Methodists were a formative <br /> influence in fledgling mining communities, and they built the first church <br /> building in the Colorado mountains in Central City. This was a log cabin <br /> between Eureka and Nevada gulches erected in the summer of 1860 that burned <br /> a year later. The large Irish and Welsh influx brought a strong Catholic <br /> contingent to the mines. By September 1861, Father J.P. Machebeuf had <br /> bought and remodeled a two-story frame building on Pine Street as the first <br /> permanent church in the district; plans soon were made to enlarge it. Most <br /> church groups depended on renting local halls, like the early Presbyterian <br /> and Methodist congregations that met in Washington Hall (C5-3) , until the <br /> end of the first decade of settlement. The first permanent and "attractive" <br /> church building in the vicinity was the Presbyterian Church (B25-5) in Black <br /> Hawk, constructed in 1863. The Black Hawk Methodist Church (B26-5) <br /> cornerstone was laid in September 1864. Because of financial problems <br /> during the slump in the local economy, the church was not completed until <br /> 1871. St. Mary of the Assumption Catholic Church was started as a Mission <br />