{"id":40833,"date":"2020-04-15T03:30:42","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T09:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/?p=40833"},"modified":"2019-04-26T22:43:34","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T04:43:34","slug":"homes-of-leadville-colorado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drfumblefinger.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/homes-of-leadville-colorado\/","title":{"rendered":"Homes of Leadville, Colorado"},"content":{"rendered":"

A great day-trip destination in the Colorado Rockies is the town of Leadville, at 10,430 feet (3180 m) above sea level the highest incorporated city in North America.  Leadville is a Victorian-era boomtown which in its gold and silver mining heyday was home to 30,000 residents.  Today, less than 10% of that number still lives here, but there’s a lot to see in Leadville that makes it well worth a stop.  Also, all the roads leading to the town make for a beautiful day’s drive.<\/p>\n

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Overview of Leadville, Colorado<\/p><\/div>\n

70 square blocks of Leadville were designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966.  We’ve featured some of the buildings from the downtown area in a prior post<\/a>. Today I’d like to focus on some of the pretty little homes you’ll see if you divert yourself from the town’s main drag.<\/p>\n

If you wander the residential streets of Leadville, you’ll see many beautifully preserved  Victorian era homes, including “gingerbread homes”.  Here’s a far from exhaustive example of some of these:<\/p>\n

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