Working to preserve history

South Platte Hotel placed on endangered places list

BY DEB HURLEY BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

A dilapidated historic building near Bu alo Creek may get new life now that it is on Colorado’s Most Endangered Places list.

e South Platte Hotel, which was built in 1913, is in the North Fork Historic District and the only building remaining of the South Platte community. e property has been owned by Denver Water since 1987, and the building was slated for demolition.

e Most Endangered Places list is created each year by Colorado Preservation Inc., and the organization announced on Feb. 9 additions to the list, which included the South Platte Hotel.

Last August, the Je erson County Historic Commission received a letter from Denver Water stating that the building would be demolished, which made John Steinle, a local historian, spring into action.

“We have talked about that building for a long time, what might be done and how it could be saved,” Steinle said. “ e letter put us into emergency mode. What (the letter) did was galvanize us, and we con-