Weekend Preservation Project
We’ve now had two Weekend Preservation Projects! Both homes received amazing face lifts with added curb appeal.
Color Portraits Sign
In 2021 Historic Greeley sponsored the designation of the 1940s-era Color Portraits sign on 16th Street to the Greeley Historic Register and is assisting restoration efforts
Christmas Tea
Our Christmas Teas are our most popular event! Thank you to everyone who has joined us to kick off the holidays. Tickets are on-sale now for our 2023 Christmas Tea — click here to purchase.
Mason’s Event Center
Historic Greeley was awarded a $167,000 grant in February 2016 to assist in the exterior and interior rehabilitation of the Greeley Masonic Temple. The structure, now privately owned, opened in 2018 as an event center after a complete renovation and adaptive rehabilitation.
Southard-Gillespie House
The State Historical Fund awarded Historic Greeley a $15,000 grant to assess the structure and develop recommendations for the preservation and use of Greeley’s finest historic home.
Bessie Smith House
Historic Greeley assisted the Family of Christ Presbyterian church in the relocation and rehabilitation of the Bessie Smith House, a 1907 Foursquare designed by the noted female architect of the same name. The house was threatened with demolition by the City of Greeley in the expansion of Greeley’s City Hall complex.
Downtown Greeley Historic District
Historic Greeley nominated the Downtown Historic District in 2002 to bring historic preservation incentives and protections to Greeley’s first commercial district. The multi-block district was approved and established on the local register with no opposition from any of the dozens of property owners within the district.
Weld County Garage Sign
A significant downtown landmark on the local register, the 1940s-era neon sign was spared from demolition in the expansion of Weld County government parking lots. Historic Greeley brokered the deal between the city and county governments and the owners to de-list the sign, move it to the new car dealership location, and re-designate it on the local historic register.
POW Pillars of Camp 202
When this last vestige of the World War II prisoner of war camp west of Greeley was threatened by the expansion of Highway 34, Historic Greeley rallied government and private groups to move the masonry bases to a nearby highway pull-out and designate them to the Greeley Historic Register.
Hillside Center Sign
Historic Greeley spearheaded this nomination to the local historic register to preserve and protect this icon of Greeley’s 1950s post-war, modern commercial architecture.
First Baptist Church of Greeley
Historic Greeley procured and administered two SHF grants from 2008 to 2011 on behalf of one of Greeley’s most prominent downtown churches to replace and rehabilitate heating and electrical systems, as well as the roof, windows, and doors.
Greeley State Armory
Historic Greeley served as the non-profit applicant for the owners of the Greeley State Armory for a Historic Structure Assessment grant from the SHF. The grant paid for the structure study which uncovered a critical roof failure from the building’s previous use as a bar with a vintage plane suspended inside.
Hanson Building — The Greeley Tribune/Greeley Museum
Historic Greeley procured, then transferred a $200,000 grant from the State Historical Fund to the City of Greeley toward this Beaux-Arts building’s adaptive re-use as the Greeley History Museum.