Days in Old Estes Park
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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The earliest tourist hotel in Estes Park |
 Longs Peak 1893 -
WH JacksonOldEstes Collection |
A very old photo of the Estes Park area by Jackson ca. 1893. |
 Mt Ypsilon, Estes ParkOldEstes 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 WindowWH 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 |
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Estes Park 1903 Courtesy Estes Park Museum See below for photo availability* |
View West Toward the Mountains
FP Clatworthy |
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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...and occasionally destroyed by fire. This is the Estes Park Hotel burning on August 11, 1911.
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Early Estes Park Business Directory (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.
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Estes Park 1910 Courtesy Estes Park Museum |
 Estes Park Circa 1915Wiswall OldEstes Collection |
Estes booms in the teens! |
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Steads Ranch ca. 192? Account of a stay at Steads in 1939 Courtesy - Priscilla Katherine Van Marter (Pat Williams) and Hollis Williams, her son |
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Estes Park 1924 Courtesy Estes Park Museum See below for photo availability* |
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What a difference by the roaring twenties! |
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Estes Park 1934 Courtesy Estes Park Museum See below for photo availability* |
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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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Estes Park 1940 Courtesy Estes Park Museum See below for photo availability * |
 
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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 |
| *Full-size hi-definition printable scans are available from the Estes Park Museum. Click here for more information. |
Copyright © OldEstes/D. Tanton
All Rights Reserved 1999 - 2011
Revised: 11/01/2011
Copyright © OldEstes/D. P. Tanton
All Rights Reserved 1999 - 2011
Revised: 12/22/2011
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Copyright © OldEstes/D. P. Tanton All Rights Reserved 1999 - 2011 Revised: 12/22/2011 |