Recommended Reading List
Discover the fascinating history and pioneers of Colorado Springs and the Pikes Peak region, and dive into a few exceptional works on historic preservation. Below are reading recommendations from the HPA Board of Directors we believe you will enjoy. Please note that a few of these publications are rare and may be out of print, requiring a bit of fun detective work through your inner bibliophile!
HPA members receive our specially designed bookmark as a thank you for your support and interest in history and historic preservation!
We welcome YOUR reading recommendations, also. Please email us at info@hpasprings.org with book titles/authors of history or preservation-themed books that have inspired you.
Reading Selections
LOCAL HISTORY | |
Author(s) | Title |
Anderson, Helen M. | Historic Homes of Colorado Springs and Vicinity: A Personal Selection |
Anderson, John | Rankin Scott Kelly El Paso County’s First Sheriff |
Armstrong, Helen, Crabbs, Martha and Kelly, Robert | A Walking Tour: A Guide to Historic Old Colroado City |
Bailey, Ralph Edgar | Fight for Royal Gorge |
Banning, Evelyn I. | Helen Hunt Jackson |
Black, Celeste | Queen of Glen Eyrie Wife of General Palmer: The Woman Who Inspired a Castle |
Blevins, Tim (Editor) with Dennis Daily (Editor), Chris Nicholl (Editor), Calvin P. Otto (Editor), Katherine Scott Sturdevant (Editor) | Legends, Labors and Loves of William Jackson Palmer |
Cafky, Morris A. and Haney, John A. | Pikes Peak Trolleys |
Cardona, Betty Jo and Harrison, Deborah | The Cliff House – Pikes Peak Hospitality |
Cunningham, Shanon A. | Manitou – Saratoga of the West |
Daniels, Bettie Marie and McConnell, Daniels | The Springs of Manitou |
Esmiol, Kathleen F | Everybody Welcome: A Memoir of Fannie Mae Duncan and the Cotton Club, |
Harrison, Deborah | Images of America: Manitou Springs |
Harrison, Deborah | Manitou Springs (Then and Now) |
Holley, John Stokes | The Invisible Peoople of the Pikes Peak Region |
Howbert, Irving | Memories of a Lifetime in the Pikes Peak Region |
Jackson, Helen Hunt | Ramona |
Kaelin, Celinda R. and the Pikes Peak Historical Society | American Indians of the Pikes Peak Region |
Larson, H. Kay Brander | Valley of the Fountain |
Loevy, Robert D. | North Nevada Avenue in the Old North End Blocks 1200-2100: The Victorian Heart of the Old North End |
Loevy, Robert D. | Preserving a Historic Neighborhood: The Story of the Old North End in Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Loevy, Robert D. | A Colorado College Reader: Selected Writings on the History of Colorado College. |
Lovell and Loevy, Robert | Exploring the Old North End Neighborhood of Colorado Springs: A Guide to its History and Architecture |
Luna, Richard Lee | Forgotten Springs pf Manitou (rare and out of print) |
Nichols, Chris (Editor with editors Tim Blevins, Michael L. Olsen, Dennis Daily, Sydne Dean (Regional History Series) | Doctors, Disease and Dying in the Pikes Peak Region |
Ormes, Manly Dayton and Ormes, Elenor Reddit | The Book of Colorado Springs |
Ormes, Robert Manly and more | Guide to the Colorado Mountains |
Peabody, George Foster | William Jackson Palmer: Pathfinder and Builder |
Pearring, John | The Walking Tour: An Historical Guide to Manitou Springs |
Pikes Peak Library District’s Regional History Series | Film and Photography on the Front Range |
Pikes Peak Library District’s Regional History Series | Doctors Disease & Dying |
Pikes Peak Library District’s Regional History Series | City Beautiful Dream |
Robinson, Charles Mulford | A City Beautiful Dream: The 1912 Vision for Colorado Springs (Regional History Series) |
Ruch, Marcella | The Gang of One: The Life of Vera Gang Scott |
Ruhtenburg, Polly King & Smith, Dorothy E. | Henry McAllister: Colorado Pioneer |
Ruth, Joanne F. | We Are Beth-El Nurses: A Heritage of Caring at the Foot of Pikes Peak |
Sprague, Marshall | Newport in the Rockies (Life and Good Times of Colorado Springs) |
Swab, Eric | From Utility to Attrraction: A History o the Mt. Manitou Park and & Incline Railway |
Swint, Sharon | Remembering Colorado Springs |
Waters, Frank | Midas of the Rockies |
Waters, Stephanie | Ghosts of Colorado Springs and Pikes Peak |
Werner | The Walls Talk: Historic House Museums of Colorado |
Wilcox, Rhoda Davis | The Man on the Iron Horse |
Wilcox, Rhoda Davis | The Bells of Manitou |
Wood, Nancy | Colorado: Big Mountain Country (photography by Myron Wood) |
Wood, Nancy | The Little Wrangler (photography by Myron Wood) |
PRESERVATION BOOKS AND TECHNICAL TOPICS | |
Author(s) | Title |
Bollack, Francoise | Old Buildings, New Forms, |
Downing, Andrew Jackson | The Architecture of Country Homes (1850) |
Feireiss, L. and Klanten, R. | Build-On: Converted Architecture and Transformed Buildings |
Kaufman, Ned | Place, Race, and Story: Essays on the Past and Future of Historic Preservation, |
Kyvig, David E. and Marty, Myron A. | Nearby History: Exploring the Past Around You |
Lowenthal, David | The Past is a Foreign Country |
Mackie, Mary | Dry Rot and Daffodils: Behind the Scenes at a National Trust House |
Mason, Randall and Page, Max | Giving Preservation a History: Histories of Historic Preservation in the United States |
McAlester, Virginia Savage | A Field Guide to American Houses: The Definitive Guide to Identifying and Understanding America’s Domestic Architecture, |
Murtagh, William J. | Keeping Time – The History and Theory of Preservation in America |
National Trust for Historic Preservation | All About Old Buildings: The Whole Preservation Catalog |
Rains, Albert, Henderson, Laurance G, and Foreword by Lady Bird Johnson | With Heritage So Rich: a Report of a Special Committee on Historic Preservation |
Roddewig, Richard and White, Bradford | Preparaing a Historic Preservation Plan |
Schmickle, Bill | The Politics of Historic Districts: A Primer for Grassroots Preservation and “part two”: Preservation Politics: Keeping Historic Districts Vital |
Speck, Jeff | Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time |
Wren, Tony P. and Mulloy, Elizabeth D. | America’s Forgotten Architecture |