Details
Title

A. A. Paddock collection: Boulder buildings

Date

[1870-1985]

Call Number

BHS 207

Contents

ca. 3,265 photographs, in 27 boxes.

Description

This collection is a photographic record of houses, buildings, and other structures in Boulder, covering a century from the 1870s up through the 1970s.

Terms of Use

RIGHTS: The historic photographs and documents, with the Source BHS, belong to the Boulder Historical Society/Museum of Boulder and require attribution when used. These items are on permanent loan to the Carnegie Library for Local History. No duplicated materials may be deposited, or placed on file in any other archive, museum, library or similar repository. Questions of copyright are the responsibility of the user.

Format

Photographs.

Author/Donor

Paddock, Laurence T.
1927-

Subjects

Paddock, Alva A, 1887-1961--Photograph collections
Boulder (Colo.)--Buildings, structures, etc--187-

Ownership Note

The photographs in this collection came to A. A. Paddock and his son Laurence Paddock from numerous sources, primarily from pioneer Boulder families who had these photos in their possession and knew of Paddock's efforts to collect and preserve Boulder's historic past. A. A. Paddock was a founding member of the Boulder Historical Society in 1945, and began donating his collection to the Society over a period of years.

Note

This collection is on permanent loan from the Boulder Historical Society.

Pages

1506 Broadway Street
1506 Broadway Street
Call Number 207-3-23
Date [1970-1979]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of the building at 1506 Broadway that was built in 1928, replacing an earlier house on the same site. The architect was Glen H. Huntington. Several fraternities used the building from 1928 through the 1960s.

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1500 block of Broadway Street
1500 block of Broadway Street: billboards
Call Number 207-3-24
Date [1925]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Views of a billboard in the 1500 block of Broadway advertising Tarkoff's clothing and shoe store. The building at the left is 1531 Broadway.

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1546 Broadway Street
1546 Broadway Street
Call Number 207-3-25
Date [1930-1954]
Contents 4 photographs.
Description Views of the house at 1546 Broadway, which was the home of Dr. O. M. Gilbert, and later became the Presbyterian Church's Westminster House.

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Western States Cutlery
Western States Cutlery
Call Number 207-3-26
Date [1949-1979]
Contents 3 photographs.
Description Views of Western States Cutlery at 1605 Broadway Street.

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1600 block of Broadway on east side
1600 block of Broadway on east side
Call Number 207-3-27
Date [1901-1956]
Contents 6 photographs (5 views).

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Boulder Electric Light and Power Company
Boulder Electric Light and Power Company: plant
Call Number 207-3-28
Date 1899-1910
Contents 10 photographs (5 views).
Description Views of construction and machinery inside the Boulder Electric Light and Power Company.

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Western Light and Power Company
Western Light and Power Company: street-railroad car barn
Call Number 207-3-29
Date [1910-1920]
Contents 2 photographs (1 view).
Description View of the car barns and machine shop of the Western Light and Power Company at 1629 Broadway.

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Public Service Company
Public Service Company: garage
Call Number 207-3-30
Date 1931
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View taken 2 June 1931 of four Mack buses (with signs for University, Chautauqua; Mapleton, Sanitarium; and East Pine) parked in front of the Public Service Company garage at 1629 Broadway. Also a view of the car barn and machine shop building. (Tangen photo #11691) Note the billboard for "Blackmarr's Furniture Company. 1637-41 Pearl Street."

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1632 Broadway Street
1632 Broadway Street
Call Number 207-3-31
Date [1883-1956]
Contents 6 photographs (4 views).
Description Views of the Mulford house at 1632 Broadway.

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1619 Broadway Street
1619 Broadway Street
Call Number 207-3-32
Date [1920-1925]
Contents 5 photographs (4 views).
Description Views of the house at 1619 Broadway.

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Public Service Company
Public Service Company
Call Number 207-3-33
Date [1949]
Contents 1 photograph.
Description View of the Public Service Company building at 1645 Broadway Street. A bus is visible at the building's bus garage entrance.

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Safeway
Safeway
Call Number 207-3-34
Date [1943-1984]
Contents 2 photographs.
Description Views of the Safeway store and a building being altered for a new retail store on the 1600 block of Broadway.

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