Tag: Antlers Hotel
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The Antlers’ 143-year history: 3 incarnations and ghost stories, too
Since 1883 every photo or painting of downtown Colorado Springs seems to focus west along Pikes Peak Avenue to include the mountains. And that view has had one other feature, the Antlers Hotel. And what a history it has had. More than 12 years earlier, Gen. William Jackson Palmer had been pulling together plans for…
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Weekend things to do around Colorado Springs and beyond: Arts Uprise Festival, Wicked-A Drag Musical, MLK Jr. Day
THURSDAY-SUNDAY Some people carry protest signs or march about issues. Local creatives express their feelings in one-act plays and powerful song this weekend in Arts Uprise Festival at Millibo Art Theatre. A return of Arts Uprise Resistance Theatre and it could make you cheer or gasp, shake your head or do a major thumbs up.…
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Historic Antlers hotel headed toward a possible transformation in downtown Colorado Springs
The end of an era could be at hand for an iconic piece of Colorado Springs’ history. Or, perhaps not. The downtown Antlers hotel, built by city founder Gen. William Jackson Palmer nearly 140 years ago and which was destroyed by fire, rebuilt, and demolished and rebuilt again in the 1960s, would be converted into…
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Colorado Springs contracting firm sold to California contracting giant
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save GE Johnson Construction Co., a longtime Colorado Springs business whose recent high-profile projects include the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Museum, the Pikes Peak Summit Visitor Center and downtown’s Weidner Field, has agreed to be sold to a California company. DPR Construction, ranked in May as…