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r~ ~ <br /> <br />~ ~ ~ ^~ ~ ~ ~ <br />1P6 COLORADO MAGAZINE <br />~ ~ <br />~ ~ <br />?3rd Avenue Presb3-terian Church. <br />South Broadnas Christian Church. <br />- Joseph Cres~cell residence. <br />Three large mansions oa «"olfe Street. bet~ceen Colfax and <br />Sloan's Lake. <br />Residence in Platt Park. ]J01i Sn. Logan. <br />\umerous Capitol Hill resideuces: on Pennsclcania Street, <br />bet~ceen Sth Avenue and 73th avenue alone, are secrn large <br />mansions ca~structed of this quarn• stone. <br />It ticas used estettsicelc in foundations. ~cindo~c sills. door <br />arches, and garden a-alls. Oae has oul}• to drive through the <br />older section of the sit}- todac to notice ecerc~chere the part <br />pla}-ed be the Castle Rock quarries iu the building of Deaver. <br />And at Castle Roek the old quarrc tcorl:ings are still easily <br />discerned, eceu the railroad grade of the spurs is still traceable. <br />31r. Ed. Seidensticker occasionally tales nut a fear loads of stone <br />tchen someone desires to build an addition to a residence constructed <br />of this rock. I[ is rumored that the quarries are to open ttp again - <br />ander the management of L. \. Johnsou of Denser, «ho has <br />already contacted the Denser and Rio Grande railroad in regard <br />to moving the rock. <br />The to.cn of Douglas is non- a ghost toecu. at the O'Brien. <br />quarry, onlc the boarding Louse remains, and the Sauta Fe <br />yuarry lies as still as if it had never been invaded b}- avaricious <br />man. <br /> <br />i <br /> <br />Y <br />C <br />~ ~ ~ <br /> <br />