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Well Cover

The pavilion in this square was built about 1885 in Greeley’s Lincoln Park to shelter an artesian well that provided the first pure water for the city. By 1908, the new city water system eliminated the need for this well, and the pavilion was moved to Island Grove Park.Greeley banker and philanthropies, J.M.B. Petrikin, placed this fountain at the intersection of 9th Avenue and 8th Street adjacent to Lincoln Park. Though it was placed anonymously, J.M.B. had it built and installed for the memory of his first wife, Jennie Eaton Petrikin. The fountain provided water not only for people but for dogs too. The gardens to the west display annuals and perennials popular in the Victorian era in Greeley and neighboring communities.

Shaw House

Weld Centennial Church

Stevens-Reynolds House

Ice House

Wagon House

Bullard Carriage House

Hall House

High Plains Press

Fire Station

Farr Garage

By 1900 a new device, the automobile, began to replace the old horse-drawn modes of transportation. Affluent citizens began to acquire first steam and then gasoline powered vehicles to move from place to place and conduct business. Greeley being a forward thinking community saw automobiles replacing horse-powered vehicles soon and electric trolley service soon after the turn-of –the-century.This simple building housed the now transitioning job of the blacksmith. Once the herald of civilization, the blacksmith now found work as an auto mechanic filling a much needed role in repairing this new mode of transportation.Inside the garage is housed our 1920 federal truck, fully restored. During its life it was a school bus in Windsor, Colorado taking students to and from school.At this time the blacksmith might be doing farrier work, shoeing horses one moment and forge-welding a broken axle for an Automobile the next.

Streetcar

Selma's Store