The Lace House, 161 Main Street, Black Hawk, Gilpin County, CO

1991 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Second Place

Significance: 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.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-18

Survey number: HABS CO-122

Building/structure dates: 1863 Initial Construction

Building/structure dates: 1976-1977 Subsequent Work

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000246

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