The essential guide to ski town architecture
The mountains are calling Ski town architecture may be gorgeous, but it?s not without its clichés. Behind every subtly-designed timber structure is a 15,000-square-foot log monstrosity full of bad Western kitsch. Even though recent trends in design skew towards more eclectic contemporary architecture, these clichés ensure a certain predictability in the high country.
You won?t find many Cape Cod-style retreats and there?s nary a thatched beach house in sight (thank goodness). But as much as we harp on all the antlers, taxidermy, and log-home overload, we?d be nothing without ski country?s most revered architecture traditions. So without further ado, may we present the seven types of high-country buildings you?re sure to encounter in North American ski towns from coast to coast. The Victorian
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A green Victorian in Ouray, a mountain town in southwestern Colorado.
Victorian architecture in ski towns is a holdover of life in the mountains before there was skiing. From the 1850s onward, people flocked to towns like Aspen, Crested Butte, Park City, and Telluride to stake their claims in mining, searching for silver, gold, or whatever precious metal was most prominent.
Many of the oldest bars, restaurants, and hotels in ski towns date to the late 19th century, when the Queen Anne style was all the rage and brightly colored, two-story homes were on trend. Today, you can still find original Victorian houses in ski towns across the A...
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