Colorado Hall--Western State Colorado University.
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View of Escalante Complex from the southwest, ca. 1962. The melted and drained ice rink is in the foreground; the Student Union is on the right.
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(Old) Colorado Hall was built in 1920 after WSC President Samuel Quigley determined that inexpensive housing was needed. Colorado Hall was designed as a temporary building to address increased enrollment, providing dining facilities and living areas for 96 women students. -- Ref: Abbott Fay's "Mountain Academia", p. 54
"In 1932 when Chipeta Hall was completed the building was converted into a boys' dormitory...[in] 1937...it was cut into three pieces...
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Old Colorado Hall was destroyed by fire in March 1939 set by a 15-year old who confessed to this and other fires around Gunnison. The wooden structure produced intense heat that could be felt as far away as Crawford Hall. The remaining structure was subsequently torn down.
[Old Colorado Hall destroyed by fire in 1939. Originally built in 1920 to provide the first on-campus women's housing and dining facilities, the structure was labeled a fire...
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Rear view of the long wing of old Colorado Hall, 1920s.
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Interior view of the old Colorado Hall dining room, 1920s.
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A fly casting contest is being held west of Taylor Hall and north of (old) Colorado Hall, circa 1920s.
