Thread by @DavidNGilbert

what are the coolest buildings in your state? my votes for colorado: bent's fort, cliff palace, the state capitol, and union station

modernist weirdness: charles deaton's wonderfully goofy bank in englewood, and his "sleeper house" above genesee; the air force academy chapel

denver houses of worship: assumption greek orthodox church, former temple emanuel (cc: @ConorMichael28), cathedral of the immaculate conception, trinity united methodist

courthouses of the colorado plains: logan county, bent county, las animas county, huerfano county

forgot weld county!!

denver's four still-operating carnegie libraries: decker, byers, smiley, and park hill

our two hand-built castles: bishop's castle near rye, and the much lesser-known cano's castle in antonito

grand hotels of the mountains: the beaumont in ouray, the delaware in leadville, the meeker... in meeker, hotel colorado in glenwood springs

opera houses: the tabor in leadville, the central city opera, the wright in ouray, and my favorite: the opera house in the tiny windswept prairie town of grover, currently for sale for $85,000! anyone wanna go in on an abandoned opera house with me?? realliving.com/commercial-for…

gingerbread & victorian houses in georgetown, idaho springs, leadville and central city

great interiors: brown palace, dushanbe tea house, union station, mountain states telephone & telegraph

wild west synagogues: temple aaron in trinidad and temple israel in leadville

denver church interiors: st. john's cathedral, holy ghost, assumption greek orthodox, trinity united methodist

brutalism: arapahoe community college, ncar, renaissance hotel, darley towers

industrial: old colorado fuel & iron mill in pueblo, gates rubber (gone!), walsenburg power plant, great western sugar mill in longmont

grain elevators of northeast colorado: flagler, roggen, burlington, julesburg

mining town main drags: silverton, georgetown, central city, leadville

tunnels: eisenhower, moffat, apishapa arch

general stores/mercantiles: r&r market in san luis, bedrock store, green mercantile in buffalo creek, maybell general store

railroad remnants: como roundhouse, strasburg depot, boreas pass water tank, rollins pass trestle

bridges: royal gorge bridge, royal gorge hanging bridge, devil's gate trestle on the georgetown loop, rainbow arch bridge in fort morgan

building with logs: dexter house in twin lakes, black forest community church, echo lake lodge, gold hill inn

~fancy castles~: miramont in manitou springs, redstone in redstone (thanks @SchmellyDog), dunafon in idledale, glen eyrie in colorado springs

higher education: loretto heights, westminster castle (thanks @shydenverguy), cu boulder's old main, center for the arts at csu fort collins

theaters of denver: mayan, paramount (thanks @CPRMarkus), oriental, gothic (englewood)

denver-area kitsch: casa bonita, lakeside amusement park, lions lair, the fort restaurant

holy places of hispano colorado: stations of the cross shrine in san luis, ave maria shrine in trinidad, sacred heart catholic church in alamosa, morley church ruins

colonnades of denver: mcnichols building, tenth circuit court, voorhies memorial, cheesman park pavilion

frontier forts: bent's old fort, pike's stockade, fort lancaster, fort garland

ancestral puebloan ruins (cc: @Michal_Rose): square tower house, cutthroat castle, mancos canyon ruins, chimney rock great house

ok i'm good for now. thanks for all the luv. keep posting your fave buildings! i'm short on theaters, schools, monuments, etc.!
also i just grabbed all these photos from google image search. i used ones with watermarks when possible. if I used one of yours, lmk if you want credit