Blackhawk Lace House

Name/Title

Blackhawk Lace House

Entry/Object ID

2024.1.2

Description

The Lace House in Blackhawk, Colorado

Context

From the Library of Congress: The Lace House, constructed in 1890, is significant as a surviving example of the vernacular Gothic Revival architecture associated with the Rocky Mountain mining frontier town of Black Hawk, Colorado. The house was restored in 1975, and is one and one-half story rectangular plan building with a high-pitched intersecting gabled roof covered with wood shingles. The distinctive features are the very ornate bargeboards along the roof line, above arched ten light windows and along the porch roofline. The house is considered a contributing structure in the central city-Black Hawk National Historic Landmark District. The Lace House is part of the Central City-Black Hawk National Historic District and is considered Colorado's premier example of Carpenter Gothic architecture. Fully restored, it is also one of the few structures in Black Hawk remaining from the 1860s.

Collection

Edgeley W. Todd and Lorraine Todd Collection

Acquisition

Accession

2024.1

Source or Donor

Lorraine L. Todd

Location

* Untyped Location

Black Archive Box 1