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Wild Horse Community Association Building

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1921. Ivan Nilsen, builder. Southeast corner of 5th and Main sts.

Wild Horse (1877, 4,470 feet) was named for nearby Wild Horse Creek, where both red and white men found wild ponies. The first substantial building erected after a 1917 fire leveled the town was the Community Association Building. It was built with donated local labor, and the $4,000 cost for materials was financed by selling shares in the association. The one-story, rectangular hall has a red brick parapet, window trim, and quoins that contrast with the gray brick walls. The round-arched, recessed entry is below a raised central section of the parapet, which hides the peak of a shallow gable roof. Lightning shortened the chimney in 1954, and the building has since been stabilized with wood beams and tie rods. Most other structures in this dying town are in similar disrepair.

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Thomas J. Noel
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Thomas J. Noel, "Wild Horse Community Association Building", [Kit Carson, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-CH06.

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