Log House

The plaque claims only that this cabin is associated with the July 1862 session, and the care is earned. Dr. James Garvin built the false-fronted log house on Colorado Avenue in 1859, and the legislators were meant to sit in it; by the local historical society's account it proved too small, one reason they left for Denver after four days. It later held the county offices, a Chinese laundry and an antiques shop, went to the Broadmoor's golf course around 1927, and was shown in Denver for the 1959 centennial, the year this plaque was cast.

What the plaque says

This tablet is the property of the State of Colorado Log House from Colorado's first designated territorial capital, at Colorado City (now a part of Colorado Springs). This log house was built in 1859. The first legislative assembly in Denver in 1861 named Colorado City the capital. The 2nd assembly met there in 1862. This is the only remaining building associated with that meeting. This plaque placed by the State Historical Society of Colorado through the Mrs. J. N. Hall Foundation 1959

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Garden of the Gods — 2.2 mi
  Named in 1859 by a surveyor who wanted no beer garden there, and given to the city in 1909 on the condition it stay free, dry and unbuilt.
• Manitou Cliff Dwellings — 3.0 mi
  A pueblo from McElmo Canyon, dismantled, shipped across the Rockies by rail and set in cement into a dynamited overhang as cliff dwellings it never was.
• Pikes Peak Cog Railway — 3.8 mi
  A mattress maker's answer to a two-day mule ride, running since 1891, shut in 2017 and rebuilt from the rails up with Swiss trains in 2021.
• Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument — 23 mi
  Redwood stumps buried by a volcanic mudflow 34 million years ago, sold off by the piece for a century, and saved in 1969 by scientists ready to lie down in front of bulldozers.

More markers nearby

• Colorado City — steps away
• Old Fort and Stockade — 0.4 mi
• Ute Pass — 3.8 mi
• Old Stone Fort — 17 mi