Repairing Stonework, Cutting Ribbons, and Demolishing Houses

Two city workers repairing stonework along Clear Creek on a sunny spring day — *Golden Eye Candy – Joyce Davell – City workers getting the creek front ready for summer crowds – enlarge*

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WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8:00-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)

9-10AM Golden Startup Coffee @ Morris & Mae
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
11:15-11:45AM Family Time @ Golden Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)

4-5PM Ribbon Cutting – Facial Aesthetics @ Facial Aesthetics
5:30PM Golden High School PTA Meeting @ Golden High School
6-7:30PM Bingo Night @ American Legion Post 21

Street view and satellite view of 916-920 9th Street in the 8th & 9th Street Historic District, Golden, Colorado — The owner of these two houses on 9th Street, plus another around the corner on Cheyenne Street, plans to demolish them and seeks agreement on his plans from the Historic Preservation Board. – enlarge

6:30PM Historic Preservation Board Meeting @ City Hall
The owner of several buildings in the 8th and 9th Street Historic District (map) plans to demolish them and is asking the Historic Preservation Board for a Certificate of Appropriateness, indicating agreement with the plan. The house at 916/918 9th Street was built in 1875, as was 920 9th Street. 815 Cheyenne Street was built in 1890. The owner has not provided the future plans for the property.

The Historic Preservation Board can delay the demolition for a few months, but it does not have the authority to prevent the demolition.

LIVE MUSIC

5-9PM Open Mic @ Cannonball Creek

6-9PM CW Wooten @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)

6-9PM Jordan Yewey @ Miners Saloon

GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT

*State Industrial School (later renamed Lookout Mountain School for Boys) in 1928 – enlarge*

The State Industrial School opened in 1881. The School was built with capacity for 50 students/inmates. There were only three boys there when the School opened in July. Their ages were 6, 8, and 14. Two more boys joined them in September. By December, there were 40 boys, and the governors announced that–unless the state increased their appropriation–they had reached capacity.

Here’s an interesting fact: when the school opened, parents, as well as courts, could commit boys to the school. In at least one case a boy was sent there because his parents had died and there was no one left to care for him.

Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!