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Masonic Temple (Register-Call Building)

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Register-Call Building
1862. 109 Eureka St.

Colorado's second oldest newspaper, the Central City Register-Call, published weekly since 1862, was issued until 1996 from this three-story granite building. When the newspaper ran into red ink, it sold the building to the Masons, who added the third-story lodge hall and leased space to the newspaper. Central City's pioneer photographer, Joseph Collier, whose work documents the rapid, early evolution of the county, had a studio here. In one of the few structures to survive the 1874 fire, heavy metal fire shutters guard the door at the top of the wooden steps of Register Alley.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Masonic Temple (Register-Call Building)", [Central City, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-GL04.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 191-192.

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