The Downtown Florence Historic District in
Florence, Colorado
The City of Florence is a Statutory City located in Fremont County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 3,822 at the 2020 United States Census. Florence is a part of the Cañon City, CO Micropolitan Statistical Area and the Front ...
was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 2017.
[
A walking tour through the ]historic district
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includes the Florence Post Office where a WPA
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-era mural “Antelope Watering Hole” can be seen, and the McCandless Cabin, the oldest continually occupied house in Florence.[
The listing included 56 ]contributing buildings
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
, 21 non-contributing ones, and a non-contributing structure.[ Includes historic photos, a map of the district on page 123, and 53 photos from 2016.]
References
National Register of Historic Places in Fremont County, Colorado
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado
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