It seems like almost everything in Lake City is for sale, including this beautiful old Victorian which sits on the main street, Gunnison Avenue, aka Highway 149 or Silver Thread Scenic Byway.
Chimneys, turrets, gables, complicated rooflines, unusual shingling....all the hallmarks of Victorian architecture can be seen here.
The town was founded in 1875 as a supply center for the thousands of miners who flooded the San Juan Mountains. At the height of the Victorian Era, Lake City boomed for the quarter century before the silver crash of 1893.
This house was built in 1892, in the midst of the mining boom.
The plaque in front of the house identifies it as one of the local historic homes.
Another Victorian just down the street is now commercially active and is also for sale, if memory serves me right.
Yes, there's the realtor's sign posted on the porch columns.
Now, for a change of pace...this is a brand new home, actually slightly still under construction. Use of bay windows, gables, and a quite complicated roofline maintains the spirit of the architecture used in many of the town's original buildings.
Many of the newest homes in the area reflect the log cabin style that was also a strong influence in the town's early days.
Cabins and virtual mansions sit side by side, most on very small lots, a few on what must be 3-4 combined lots.
With 96% of the County in government ownership, land is very precious, and large lots are an unusual luxury. Many homes are constructed in this long, narrow style, fitting onto narrow, half-block deep lots.
Here again is a newer home, with a quite complicated roofline.
This little, narrow home is so picturesque with its multicolored entry gable and lace window curtains.
Intricate, yes?
A beautifully maintained home, colorful as well.
These narrow homes remind me of what I've read about in New Orleans, called "shotgun houses", the idea being that you can shoot a shotgun through the front door and the shot flies right out the back door.
This is where Mary Nettleton & husband Ed and their dogs, including Mary's blind person's assistant black Laborador, live. It's a mellow shade of yellow that highlights the trim and some of the shingle siding. The sign on the front fence says "St. Bernard crossing." Needless to say, that's one of the dogs.
One of the very few brick homes we see. It intrigues me, looks like a small church or chapel, has medieval-looking window shutters on this side and a porch & columns right out of a southern plantation on another side.
This historic home is reminiscent of many of the farm homes familiar to me in the Midwest.
Very functional and plain.
For sheer bold color, this bright orange takes the prize!
It seems like almost everything in Lake City is for sale, including this beautiful old Victorian which sits on the main street, Gunnison Avenue, aka Highway 149 or Silver Thread Scenic Byway.
Chimneys, turrets, gables, complicated rooflines, unusual shingling....all the hallmarks of Victorian architecture can be seen here.
The town was founded in 1875 as a supply center for the thousands of miners who flooded the San Juan Mountains. At the height of the Victorian Era, Lake City boomed for the quarter century before the silver crash of 1893.
This house was built in 1892, in the midst of the mining boom.
The plaque in front of the house identifies it as one of the local historic homes.
Another Victorian just down the street is now commercially active and is also for sale, if memory serves me right.
Yes, there's the realtor's sign posted on the porch columns. 
Now, for a change of pace...this is a brand new home, actually slightly still under construction. Use of bay windows, gables, and a quite complicated roofline maintains the spirit of the architecture used in many of the town's original buildings.
Many of the newest homes in the area reflect the log cabin style that was also a strong influence in the town's early days.
Cabins and virtual mansions sit side by side, most on very small lots, a few on what must be 3-4 combined lots.
With 96% of the County in government ownership, land is very precious, and large lots are an unusual luxury. Many homes are constructed in this long, narrow style, fitting onto narrow, half-block deep lots.
Here again is a newer home, with a quite complicated roofline. 
This little, narrow home is so picturesque with its multicolored entry gable and lace window curtains.
Intricate, yes?
A beautifully maintained home, colorful as well.
These narrow homes remind me of what I've read about in New Orleans, called "shotgun houses", the idea being that you can shoot a shotgun through the front door and the shot flies right out the back door.
This is where Mary Nettleton & husband Ed and their dogs, including Mary's blind person's assistant black Laborador, live. It's a mellow shade of yellow that highlights the trim and some of the shingle siding. The sign on the front fence says "St. Bernard crossing." Needless to say, that's one of the dogs.
One of the very few brick homes we see. It intrigues me, looks like a small church or chapel, has medieval-looking window shutters on this side and a porch & columns right out of a southern plantation on another side. 
This historic home is reminiscent of many of the farm homes familiar to me in the Midwest.
Very functional and plain.
For sheer bold color, this bright orange takes the prize!
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