Manitou Springs Photos

Manitou Springs is a small town at the foot of Pike's Peak, in the hills above the city of Colorado Springs. As the starting point for the road & railroad to Pike's Peak, Manitou Springs grew wealthy from early American tourists to this famous mountain. Today the town has evolved its heritage buildings to art galleries & restaurants to serve the ongoing tourist flow.

See also: Colorado Springs Region
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Streetscape of town of Manitou Springs.

Manitou Avenue streetscape including Leddy Block.

Leddy Block (1891) (734-8 Manitou Ave.).

Heritage buildings with arts & crafts galleries on Cañon Ave.

Manitou Avenue streetscape.

Carved bear outside shop.

Wheeler Town Clock & fountain (1889) made in Italy.
On National Register.

Statue of woman holding lamp atop Wheeler Town Clock.

Barker House (1872-1890) (819 Manitou Ave.) was a prime resort hotel of 100 rooms with one bathroom per floor. Style: Queen Anne Shingle. On National Register.

Facade of Barker House, former Navajo Hotel.

Barker House tower, once a prime resort, now a senior citizen's home.

Shingle facade of Barker House, former hotel with town's first elevator.

Wheeler Bank building (1889) (717 Manitou Ave.) with third floor used as town's first opera house.
Architect: J.L. Nichols. On National Register.

Romanesque Revival of Wheeler Bank building.

Cliff House Inn (1873) (306 Cañon Ave.) started serving gold miners, then tourists for mineral waters & Pike's Peak. On National Register.

Cliff House Inn has hosted Theodore Roosevelt, P.T. Barnum, Thomas Edison, Clark Gable, F.W. Woolworth, & J. Paul Getty.

J.E. Newton Residence (2 Grand Ave.). Style: Queen Anne.

Miramont Castle Museum (aka Montcalm Castle) (1895) (9 Capitol Hill). On National Register.

Miramont Castle Museum originally built as home for Father Jean Baptist Francolon, a French Priest.

Miramont Castle Museum constructed of quarried greenstone & pine shows 9 styles of architecture ranging from English Tudor to Byzantine.

Stagecoach Inn (702 Manitou Ave.) parts of which go back to 1881.

Concord coach by Abbot, Downing & Co. at Stagecoach Inn, a stop on town's stage line.

Pike's Peak Cog Railway passengers waiting to board. Pikes Peak Railway

View of Pike's Peak over Colorado Springs.


All photos on this page are originals by & copyrighted by Jim Steinhart.
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