Built in 1967 and opened to the public in 1970, the Far View Visitor Center at Mesa Verde National Park told the story of the Ancestral Pueblo people for more than four decades. Now the building, which closed in 2012, has the potential to tell a newer story: its own.
But the visitor center, along with five other building sites in Colorado, is in danger of being lost, according to Colorado Preservation Inc., a nonprofit organization that released its annual list of Colorado’s Most Endangered Places at an event on Thursday afternoon.
CPI works with local Colorado communities to “save threatened or endangered historic buildings and sites” and provides “advocacy, awareness and technical assistance,” Most Endangered Places director Katie Peterson said in a statement. “In 25 years, the program has highlighted 135 historic sites throughout the state; 55 sites have been Saved and only eight have been lost.”
