Martin Homestead
57920 County Rd., Genoa
The homestead evolved architecturally over a period from 1899 to 1916. The Martins homesteaded the land in 1899, and the fourth generation of the same family continues to work the farm. The property includes the original sod house and a large frame barn, both typical in design, materials, and workmanship for their place and period of construction.
World’s Wonder View Tower
30121 Frontage Rd., Genoa
The 1926 World’s Wonder View Tower rose on Colorado’s eastern plains as a commercial and recreational center designed to profit from the needs of rail and highway travelers. Tourist facilities like the tower once dotted every major western highway. They now represent a rare and disappearing resource.
Tower is No Longer Open to the Public
Limon Railroad Depot
(Limon Heritage Museum)
899 First Street, Limon
The town’s location at the intersection of the Union Pacific Railroad and the Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, and its designation as a division point on the latter, made Limon an important regional rail center and a major source of local employment. The 1910 wood frame depot is one of only three Rock Island depots in Colorado remaining in their place of operation. Modernized by Rock Island in the late 1930s, the depot is important for its design adaptations that allowed it to effectively serve and manage traffic at a major rail junction into the 1950s. In 1990, the Mid States Port Authority donated the building to the Limon Heritage Society, and it now serves as a museum.
Lincoln Theatre
245 E Ave., Limon
The Lincoln Theatre is Limon’s longest-surviving movie theatre. Opening in 1938 as the Cactus Theatre before assuming the Lincoln name in 1949, the theatre has operated continuously to the present.
Carpenter Barn
30560 Colo. Hwy. 71, Limon vicinity
The circa 1900 Carpenter Barn is a good example of a modest-sized, platform-framed and gambrel-roofed dairy barn. The barn exhibits a large loft indicative of the type as well as a grade-level concrete floor and abundant windows. Though moved from its original construction site in 1950, the barn continued to be used after its relocation.
Walks Camp Park
63551 County Rd. 27, Limon vicinity
Since the creation of the Walks Camp Park Association in 1915, the agricultural community north of Limon has operated the park as a recreational complex. The 1930 Grandstand, exemplifying a basic design type common in the first half of the 20th century, provides spectator seating for sporting events and community celebrations. The Recreation Hall moved to the park in 1944 from the former Civilian Conservation Corps camp in Hugo, is of typical CCC design and provides additional sheltered space for a variety of community functions.
Hugo Municipal Pool*
US 287 and Sixth Ave., Hugo
This property is associated with the New Deal Resources on Colorado’s Eastern Plains and was a Works Progress Administration project. Both the pool and the Art Moderne design bathhouse have been in continuous use since their construction in 1938.
Hugo Union Pacific Railroad Roundhouse
Adjacent to Union Pacific RR right-of-way, Hugo
The 1909 roundhouse is associated with the operation and maintenance of the Union Pacific Railroad in eastern Colorado. It is Colorado’s most intact Union Pacific example and one of only four surviving roundhouses in the state.
Hedlund House
617 Third Avenue, Hugo
The circa 1877 Hedlund House is part of the first homestead filing in the Hugo area. The house is a wood frame structure typical of its place and period of construction.