Windsor Colorado 1912 Cancel Park School Town Hall RARE Early View PostCard Card For Sale

Postmark 1912 - Cancel Dated - "Oct. 11, 1912, Windsor, Colo." Park School / Today: Windsor Town Hall, 301 Walnut St, Windsor, ColoradoCaption: "Windsor High School, Windsor, Colorado." / "L.E. Frazier, Pub." Impressive 4+ levels: Brick School, distant Windsor neighborhood houses, homes, etc. Handwritten note, Back : "from Evelyn Marie Ethel and Georg Miller."
Addressed to: Miss Elizebeth Bard, 3896 Xavier St., Denver, Colo." ?For More Antique Colorado Postcards & Trade Cards Click: (( MORE COLORADO CARDS )
Printer / Publisher / Photographer: "L.E. Frazier, Pub." (front left bottom) Windsor, Colorado -- (from Wikipedia)"In 1873, a settler named J.L. Hilton built a small house situated half-way between Greeley and Fort Collins. The “half-way” house, as it became known, directed travelers along a route, which was soon adopted by the Greeley, Salt Lake and Pacific railway. The railroad brought investors and farmers to Windsor in increasing numbers. Windsor's rich alluvial plains lent themselves to extensive wheat production and the establishment of one of the town's first commercial enterprises, a flour mill, which through a subsequent fire in 1899, was rebuilt and became the Windsor Milling and Elevator Company.A rich wheat farming district, the area around Windsor first drew permanent residents in the early 1870s. Two factors were to play a critical role in stimulating Windsor's early development: irrigation and the railroad. Irrigation increased crop variety and production and the railroad shipped this bounty to market. The town was platted in 1882, the same year the Windsor Railroad Depot was built, and incorporated in 1890. It was named for the Rev. Samuel Asa Windsor.[10] By 1900, tariffs on foreign sugar had created a market for new sources of sugar. Research in the improved cultivation of sugar beets was taking place at Colorado Agricultural College in Fort Collins, and the capital to advance production and manufacture of beet sugar was coming together. In 1903 a factory for producing sugar from sugar beets was built in Windsor. Sugar beet cultivation required large numbers of "stoop laborers," a need that was met by ethnic German immigrants from Russia. With large families and a strong work ethic, the German-Russians who settled in Windsor and other sugar beet areas would achieve financial success within one generation and own the highest producing beet farms. The Great Western Sugar Company fueled Windsor's economy through the mid-1960s, when the Windsor factory closed. Plentiful water and land drew Kodak to Windsor where it opened a manufacturing plant on the heels of the sugar factory's closing.Kodak's opening spurred economic development in the town, and a population surge as the sugar beet factory closed. Later in the 1980s Metal Container Corporation (MCC) opened a can factory and Deline Box Company opened a factory, which closed in December 2010, that primarily served the Budweiser facility in Fort Collins, Colorado. Windsor Schools: Weld County RE-4 - established in Weld County in 1870. (Images of Early Windsor, Colorado - Mac McNeill)
"The opening of the sugar beet plant in 1903 dramatically and quickly changed the town.
Between the 1900 and 1910 U. S. Census, the population of Windsor soared from 305 to 1,780 residents.
To meet the needs of the growing population, a high school,
the Park School, was built on the southwestern corner of Walnut and Third Streets.
The original two-story structure was completed in 1905."By 1909, the Park School was too small and a new wing and a third floor were added to the high school.
The enlarged school was ready in early 1910. (NOTE: This postcard depicts the Park School shortly after the work was completed.)“The 1910 Park School . . . is a Colonial revival styled, three-story building of stone construction with an
irregular rectangular plan, multiple roof, half-sunk basement, and two identical arched entrances.
The stone walls feature rough-cut, irregular coursed stone from a local quarry, the roof is finished with asphalt shakes,
and the foundation consists of concrete.”The Park School was converted to a grade school in 1918 with the construction of a new high school.
It was closed in the late 1970s and... converted to the Town Hall in the 1980s. Windsor gained national notoriety in 1924 when its high school basketball team won the US Basketball National Championship held in Chicago.
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