The Ouray Historic District, in

Ouray, Colorado Ouray () is a home rule municipality that is the county seat of Ouray County, Colorado, United States. The city population was 1,000 as of the 2010 census. The Ouray Post Office has the ZIP Code 81427. Located at an elevation of , Ouray's cl ...

, is a historic district which was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...

in 1983. Many of the commercial buildings are

Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ...

in style; many residences are Victorian. Its 270 contributing buildings include government and commercial buildings: *Ouray County Courthouse (1881) *Beaumont Hotel (1886) *Wright Opera House (1888), with an elaborate Mesker Brothers cast-iron facade *Duckett's Market *St. Elmo Hotel (1899) *Story Block (1892) Many of the commercial buildings are along Ouray's Main Street, also known as Third Street, which is U.S. Highway 550. Residences include: *Hurlbutt House (1888) With PDF includes text narration of boundaries but not a map that is referenced and was included in the original submission. The historic district encompasses almost all of the original townsite. Its boundary is an irregular pattern extending to and including the Ouray hot springs pool on the north, to the west side of Oak Street on the west side of the

Uncompahgre River The Uncompahgre River is a tributary of the Gunnison River, approximately 75 mi (121 km) long, in southwestern Colorado in the United States. Lake Como at 12,215 ft (3723m) in northern San Juan County, in the Uncompahgre National ...

on the west, to the south side of Third Avenue on the south, and to the east side of 6th Street on the east. Includes map with outline of district.

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* Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Colorado National Register of Historic Places in Ouray County, Colorado Italianate architecture in Colorado Victorian architecture in Colorado {{Colorado-NRHP-stub