The Colorado Building is a historic commercial building located at 401-411 North Main Street in Downtown

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. The building was built in 1925 for the Southern Colorado Investment Company, and was designed by the William N. Bowman Co. It was added to the

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on April 17, 1992. It is a four-story building with

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, predominantly dark red, on its facades. It has vertical divisions of windows set off by columns of off-white brick. It has eight of these divisions on its Main Street facade, and 16 vertical divisions on its 4th Street facade. It has rectangular white panels, outlined in red, under each window on its second, third, and fourth floors, which were to hold 160 office rooms. It has a parapet and it has a

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frieze just below its

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References

National Register of Historic Places
Commercial buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado Buildings designated early commercial in the National Register of Historic Places Commercial buildings completed in 1925 Office buildings in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Pueblo, Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub