Spruce St., Como, Colorado. County/parish: Park.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places June 30, 2000. NRIS 00000739.
Part of Rural School Buildings in Colorado MPS (NRIS 64500075).
4 contributing buildings. 1 contributing structure.Also known as:
The Como School, on Spruce St. in Como, Colorado, is a school complex its oldest building, a grade school with a belltower, built in 1883. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
The grade school building is a wood-frame structure that was a one-room schoolhouse, serving students in grades one through four on one side of the aisle and grades five through eight on the other.
The property also included a wood frame high school building which was moved to the property in the 1930s, two outhouses, and a storage shed.
The school operated from 1883 to 1948. In 2010 the grade school building was identified as the Como Civic Center.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/84127297