Attractions (in category: Outlaws, Brothels and Bootleggers)
By most accounts, Butch Cassidy was a minor player in this, his first bank robbery of San Miguel Valley Bank in 1889. The old bank burned and was replaced by the Mahr Building in 1892.
Experience the life of Ouray miners and ranchers at the former Miners' Hospital. View the museum's 27 rooms of exhibits displaying mining history, gem and mineral collections, transportation history, a simulated mine and many more exhibits about early life in Ouray County.
This Telluride landmark was built in 1895. For fine dining, the Continental Room had 16 velvet-curtained booths, each equipped with phones so diners could call for service and not be interrupted frequently by waiters. The Sheridan Bar remains much the same with its cherry wood bar imported from Austria. William Jennings Bryan delivered a speech, though not his famous "Cross of Gold," on a platform in front of the Sheridan. The Opera House, an exquisite theater with a Venetian scene painted on its roll curtain by J. Erickson, was added in 1914.
Once one of Telluride's oldest bars, this building contains a period piece downstairs an 1860 Brunswick-Balke-Collener Company bar of carved walnut, with exquisite 12-foot French mirrors on the back bar. The Roma was one of the wildest and most raucous saloons in town. It was renovated in 1983, and again in 2006 to become a Pan-Asian restaurant called Honga's Lotus Petal.
The Senate, Silver Bell, Cribs make up the restored buildings of the "sporting district". The Senate was one of the many "female boarding houses" that was bustling with business between the 1880's and 1930's. The Silver Bell, built in 1890, operated as one of Telluride's many "Soda Parlours" during Prohibition, and its numerous entrances hint at the other services offered there. The three small Victorian houses standing in a row on Pacific Street, known as the Cribs, are all that remain of similar structures that lined both sides of the street all the way to Telluride Town Park.
Patrons were treated to music, food, wine and ladies in this "parlour house" in Telluride's red light district.
In Lone Tree Cemetery, glimpse the perils of Telluride's mining-boom era when avalanches, flu epidemics, mining accidents and labor strikes took many lives.
The Town of Crested Butte is one of Colorado's larger Registered National Historic Districts. Many of the buildings in Crested Butte are the original structures from the bustling mining days of the late 1880s. Pick up a free self guided walking tour brochure available at the Crested Butte Heritage Museum and explore the town on your own or schedule a guided tour through the museum.
