Moran - Longs Peak & Estes Park
OldEstes Collection
(Original steel plate etching available $50) |
Etching from one of the very first views of Estes Park by renowned
landscape artist Thomas Moran. |
 First View of Estes Park -
1879 - WH
Jackson
OldEstes
Collection |
View from the top of Park Hill in the very early days. This is the first view that the tourists of the early
1900's would have seen coming to Estes Park by train & Stanley
Steamer. |
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Estes Park ca. 1885 |
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 Long's Peak from Griff Evan's Ranch
OldEstes Collection |
The earliest tourist hotel in Estes Park |
 Longs Peak 1893 -
WH Jackson
OldEstes
Collection |
A very old photo of the Estes Park area by Jackson ca.
1893. |
 Mt Ypsilon, Estes Park
OldEstes
Collection |
This is an original photochromolithograph from the Detroit
Publishing Co. The original photo was taken by WH Jackson |
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Bit of Estes Park from the Stage Window
WH Jackson
OldEstes Collection |
Before Stanley Steamers, there was the stagecoach. |
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Estes Park before the big booms of the teens and
twenties |
View West
Toward the Mountains
FP Clatworthy
OldEstes Collection |
Pristine views of the front range were to be had. |
Estes Park
From the West 1905- 1910 |
The town starts to grow. |
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Out Griff Evan's Way |
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The Estes Park Hotel ca. 1907
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Fancier hotels are built |
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Estes Park Business Directory
Circa 1910*
(Click on each page separately)From a publication The Fall Season
in Estes Park published by The Business Men's Association of Estes Park
promoting Estes Park in the relatively slow off-season as well as summers.
*Thanks to John Meissner for a better date-fix here. |
 Estes Park Circa 1915
Wiswall
OldEstes
Collection |
Estes booms in the teens! |
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What a difference by the roaring
twenties! |
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By the 40's the town had taken on the look it
would have for decades to come. |
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The biggest single change came to Estes with the
Colorado Big Thompson Project in the 40's. Today Lake Estes occupies
the meadow in photos. Below Reclamation District housing built for
the Colorado Big Thompson Project Folks |
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