Some cool registering a business images:
Colorado - Golden: Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave
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Buffalo Bill Museum and Grave, at 987 1/2 Lookout Mountain Road, was opened in 1921 by Johnny Baker, the foster son of William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody, after his father died in kidney failure in 1917 and was subsequently buried atop Lookout Mountain, overlooking Denver and the Great Plains, where his wife claimed he always wanted to be buried. Louisa Maud Frederici Cody (1843-1921) would be buried next to her husband less than a year after the museum opened.
The Bakers built the "Pahaska Teppe," named after Cody's hunting lodge of the same name outside of Yellowstone Park, to house the artifacts and memorabilia from the life of Buffalo Bill. After Johnny Baker's death in 1931, his wife Olive continued to operate Pahaska Tepee until her own death in 1956, at which point the collection became the property of the City and County of Denver. In 1979, the museum was moved to a new building just north of the Pahaska Tepee, which now serves as a large souvenir shop and cafe offering buffalo.
William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody (February 26, 1846 - January 10, 1917) born in in Iowa, and after dropping out of school in 1860, rode on for the short-lived Pony Express Company, carrying mail from San Francisco, California to St. Joseph, Missouri, and back. During the Civil War, he joined a Jayhawk group, fighting the Confederacy via guerilla style raids in the South, and later served as a Union scout. After the war, he started a hotel in Kansas, but soon sold it to start a freight company, which went out of business when the Indians captured his wagons and horses. After doing some railroad construction work, he became a buffalo hunter, supplying buffalo meat to the railroad gangs building the Transcontinental Railroad. It is said that he killed 4,000 buffalo in just 18 months, earning him his nickname.
From 1868 to 1872, he served as a civilian scout for the United States Army, during the Indian Campaigns. He was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor in 1872 for gallantry in action in a battle with Indians on the Platte River, which was later revoked in 1917 because he was not an official member of the military. In late 1883, he formed up a "Wild West" Circus to tour the United States and Europe. The show included mock Indian battles and demonstrations of shooting skill, and became one of the widest known and successful entertainment endeavors in the late 19th and early 20 Centuries.
National Register # 75002189 (1975)
I met Fup
Image by jima
How do you prove that you met a store cat? You get a business card, of course. I saw Fup, the store cat of Portland's famous Powell's book stores, wandering about in the computer books. When I went to check out, there were Fup cards at the register, so I snagged one.
James Dolan House (1894) – staircase
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96 South Union Street, Burlington, Vermont USA • Now operating as offices with a third-floor apartment, I'm told it was once a brothel.
This single-family Queen Anne style, eaves-front house, dominated by a large round tower filling the right half of the front facade, faces west on South Union Street. The 2 x 4 bay shingle and clapboard sided wood frame structure rises from the redstone foundation to the steeply pitched gable roof.
While the roof was originally all covered by slate, the main eaves-front gable has been covered by asphalt shingles. The area with slate remaining has gray slate laid with a band of clipped shingles. The large tower is covered with plain wood shingles except for the first course on on second floor, which has sawtooth shingles. The finial-capped tower has a hip roof dormer extending from the front (west) side of its conical roof. The window in this dorrner and in the dormer protruding west from the main gable (which has cheeks which round into half circles before ending at the recessed sash) have multi-light windows. Most of the building is 1/1 windows, some of the exceptions being two fixed-sash stained glass windows and a set of replacement windows toward the back of the budding. One stained glass, a small elaborate window located on the right (south) side year beyond the tower, is a more recent (1987) sash designed with mountains and a sunset. The right (south) gable has a slate hood and a projecting gable toward the rear of the main gable which, contains a bow window below it. The gable of this bow window has fishscale shingles in the lower corners and a 3/1 window in the rear. A bay window on the left (north) side gable wall rises two stories and ends in a hip roof.
The porch on the left front facade has a full-width pediment filled with floral carvings which is held up by steel cornerposts. The front door consists of a large rectangular pane above two vertical panels. The two round arch openings above the porch look as if they originally enclosed a small sunporch. Now these two openings are filled with large fixed panes of glass.
The double-flue chimney is made of brick and has a corbelled top. The back (east) side of the building retains in basic shape of a 2-1/2 story building but has been altered with skylights, additional construction and at least one window replacement. The lot is flat and sits a few feet above the sidewalk. This house was built for James Dolan, who had a grocery business at 203-205 College Street called Dolan Bros. – From the NRHP application.
☞ This building is one of 136 contributing structures of the 280 acre Buell Street - Bradley Street Historic District, and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places (#95001260), since November 13, 1995.
• More Info: GeoHack: 44°28′45″N 73°12′31″W.
