Index of photographs on this site
Museum and Environs
The Estes Park Area Historical Museum main building.
The restored original headquarters of Rocky Mountain
National Park.
Map showing location of Museum.
Looking northwest, c. 1900. The large building, near what is
now the park in the center of town, is the school.
A closer view of the school, on the right, and the post office
on the left.
Looking east on Elkhorn Avenue, c. 1905. Note the covered wagon
and numerous horse-drawn vehicles.
Elkhorn Avenue, 1906, looking east
Looking northwest c. 1908. Samuel Service's General store is
the white building on the right. The sign on the side of the building advertises baled
hay, campers supplies and gasoline. There is an automobile on the street.
Elkhorn Avenue, 1906, looking west
Looking southwest in 1910. Mr. Service's store now has a
gasoline pump in front of the store and a car is being filled with gasoline. The Estes
Park Steam Laundry is on the left. The small house alone on the hill is beside the road
that will become Moraine Avenue.
c. 1913; Looking northwest. Photographed by W.T. Parke
c. 1919; Looking up Elkhorn Avenue. Source: E.J. Reiland
c. 1920; Moraine Avenue, the Hupp Hotel after a snowfall.
Source: Trail-Gazette
c. 1920; Estes Park as photographed from Little Prospect
Mountain by F.P. Clatworthy.
c. 1920; Panorama of Estes Park from Little Prospect
Mountain. Taken by Miller Studio, Balto, Maryland.
c. 1922; Moraine Avenue with period automobiles, the
Theatre, and the Hupp Hotel. Source: Trail-Gazette
c. 1940; Elkhorn Avenue. Source: Trail-Gazette
c. 1940s; Elkhorn Avenue east. Source: Trail-Gazette
Stanley Hotel
Artist's rendition (on an early postcard) of the
Stanley Hotel.
The lobby of the Stanley Hotel. (1920s).
Playing golf at the Stanley.
F.O. Stanley
Display/Exhibit Photos