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Wow Photo Wednesday~ Ramshackle Houses

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Old Olsen's log and plank shack residence Petersburg (later Englewood), Arapahoe County, Colorado, includes a hand pump and washtub.

View of dilapidated cabins in Independence (Pitkin County), Colorado; features barren hills with new growth.

A dilapidated log and sheet metal shack stands on the verge of collapse at the Montezuma Mine, Pitkin County, Colorado.

View of Finntown mining district's dilapidated structures in Stray Horse Gulch, east of Leadville (Lake County), Colorado. A small six-sided structure, possibly an outhouse, sits on a grassy slope in the foreground and is made of corrugated metal siding and has a faceted roof with finial ball, and a bracketed arched doorway. There are wood frame structures in the background and a tall smokestack on the left.

Sade and Mary Elizabeth Rhoads pose outside of a tent in Colorado. A tar papered shack is nearby.

View of a dilapidated log cabin with a flat roof in a small grove of Aspen trees in Jasper, Colorado.

Cano's Castle, Antonito

View of a dilapidated cabin nearly overgrown by vegetation in Jasper, Colorado.

Cano's Castle, Antonito, Colo.

Two dilapidated flat roof log cabins are in a clearing in Jasper, Colorado. Aspen trees are in the background.

A woman holds a child bundled in a coat, hat, and mittens in Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County. They stand outside of a geometrically-shaped dwelling (geodome) with pentagon-shaped windows. A coarse, wood ladder leans against a conical-shaped structure in the background.

View of a disassembled sidewalk leading up to the ruins of the old court house, Breckenridge, Colorado; features a single leaf door with decorative moulding and a wood beam running from the ground to the top of the building; other dilapidated buildings are near the court house.

A man stands in the interior of a partially-finished geodesic dome in Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County. Light streams through the geometrically-shaped window at the top of the structure. The man holds a circular painting with his right hand and stands amidst other pieces of art on the floor.

View of the dilapidated Assay Office in Pitkin, Gunnison County, Colorado, a wooden, false front building with vertical board siding and a plank sidewalk surrounded by unkempt weeds and grass.

Interior of a geodome in the community of Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County; shows bed covered with blankets on floor, kitchen area including refrigerator and sink, a clock on wall set to 1:10, and light through triangular-shaped window on ceiling.

A dilapidated log cabin in Liberty, Saguache County, Colorado, has a bench on the porch, and a ramp. Bird wings are next to the door, by a sign: "Notice."

View taken from inside a geodesic dome looking outside at people sitting on the ground in Drop City, Colorado, in Las Animas County. Three geodesic dwellings are in the background and have cars parked next to them.

View of a large, dilapidated house in Gold Hill, Colorado; features a side gable, gabled dormer, an attached, closed porch, single leaf door, double hung windows, and a horizontal timber fence with a picket gate that surrounds the property; tall grass in the yard and surrounding area.

View of abandoned houses on Ninth Street in Denver, Colorado (Lincoln Park Neighborhood); shows dilapidated frame residences and trees.

View of two dilapidated log cabins, identified as Shipler cabins, in Lulu (Grand County), Colorado.

View of shanties on a dirt road near probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue and Clay Street in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood and corrugated metal and have chimneys and roofs patched with shingles and sheet metal. A man in the road wears a v-neck sweater and a hat and smokes a pipe. Trees, scrap wood, metal pots, and laundry on a clothesline are beside buildings.

View of an abandoned, dilapidated, hewn log schoolhouse in the ghost town of Turret, Colorado in Chaffee County, shows a front gable, chinking, front window and door and peeling tar paper on roof. Summer, 1974.

View of makeshift houses and shanties at 19th (Nineteenth) and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. A man works by barrels and corrugated metal.

The Simmons house, on Letcher Street, in Nevadaville, Gilpin County, Colorado, is a dilapidated one story frame structure with a gable roof, a covered porch, and lathe-turned piers. Door and window openings are empty or covered by corrugated tin; debris covers the ground, and ruins of stone walls are in the background.

A man wears a v-neck sweater, pants, and a hat and smokes a pipe in front of a shanty at probably 19th (Nineteenth) Avenue between Bryant and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado. Houses are made of wood, corrugated metal, sheet metal, and tar paper. A roof has a scalloped edge at the eves. A pile of bricks, wooden trunks, laundry on a clothesline, and metal buckets are near trees. An address number "2645" is above a door.

View of a dilapidated two-story wood frame false front with a corrugated metal gable roof, dentiled cornice, two upper-story windows, remains of an outside side stairway and a single door entry flanked by windows in Gothic, Gunnison County, Colorado. A faded sign reads: Lee's Tavern; two small gabled sheds show in background. Gothic was a mining boom town from 1879 to 1884; bought, in 1928, by the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory for plant and animal research.

View of makeshift houses and shanties at 19th (Nineteenth) and Clay Streets in the Jefferson Park neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

View of a dilapidated adobe house located at 215 E. De Vargas Street, Santa Fe (Santa Fe County), New Mexico. The house has vigas, chimneys and a stone buttress, and is thought to be the oldest house in the city. Shows a woman with a basket on her head and a dog.

View of a dilapidated shack in Eureka, Colorado; features a lean- to and flat roof, sheet metal and horizontal wood siding, and rectangular windows; cottonwood tree behind the shack, with cliff bands and mountains in the far distance.

House of Henry Gillespie, later known as Ghost House

The Ouray Gun Club poses with their rifles outside a board-and- batten shack on a snowy day north of Ouray, Ouray County, Colorado. They include, left to right: Gus Arps in cart drawn by a small burro, unidentified man, Albert Arps, Otto Arps, Charley Pearson, Barney Du Praw, Andy Sneva, Ed Arps, Alf Armstrong, George Armstrong (little boy.)

A saddled horse stands in front of a dilapidated plank cabin, Eureka (San Juan County), Colorado. A leaning log supports the cabin, which has tar paper covering the walls, a gable roof, and a shed attachment.

Two Native American (Miwok) women pose near a dilapidated wooden shack in Yosemite National Park, California. One woman, wearing a striped dress, sits holding a basket she is weaving. The other woman stands behind, wearing a long dress with leg o' mutton sleeves and a hat. The shack is loosely constructed and is surrounded by debris. A small bear is on the ground between the women.