Chamber of Commerce Building (Steamboat Springs, Colorado) explained

Chamber of Commerce Building
Location:1201 Lincoln Ave., Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Coordinates:40.4889°N -106.8392°W
Built:1960
Architect:Sternberg, Eugene D.
Architecture:Modern Movement, Usonian
Added:April 16, 2010
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:08001010

The Chamber of Commerce Building in Steamboat Springs, Colorado, at 1201 Lincoln Ave., is a Modern Movement-style building that was designed by architect Eugene D. Sternberg and was built in 1960. Its 2009 application for NRHP listing describes it as "an unusual application of the Usonian housing style to a commercial building. It has an inverted gable roof which gives rise to it being known locally as the butterfly building. The roof accommodates cottonwood tree trunks growing through a hole in its overhang.[1]

It served the Steamboat Springs Chamber of Commerce through at least 1973. In 2009 it housed the Yampa Valley Land Trust.[1]

It was listed on the Colorado Register of Historic Places in 2009[1] and the National Register of Historic Places in 2010.

Notes and References

  1. News: Tom Ross: Denver architect took great care with downtown building . Tom Ross . March 3, 2009 . July 27, 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160816004426/http://www.steamboattoday.com/news/2009/mar/03/tom_ross_denver_architect_took_great_care_downtown/# . 2016-08-16 . dead .