Colorado Springs, CO: Colorado Midland/Midland Terminal Roundhouse

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This roundhouse is out of my "territory," but any roundhouse that has been preserved by reuse is worth investigating.

Ted Gregory shared a post of two photos by Scott Janz with the comment: "Colorado Midland/Midland Terminal roundhouse at Colorado Springs, CO. 1940's and modern screenshot from Google."

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Mark Afman posted

Built in about 1889 for the Colorado Midland Railroad, the roundhouse was used by the Midland Terminal Railway after 1918 and then converted to a Van Briggle Art Pottery showroom and factory in the early 1950s. In 2008–9 the building was renovated to house shops, offices, and a restaurant.

Source: Colorado Encyclopedia

Rolando Maggi shared

Dennis DeBruler: Location: https://www.google.com/.../@38.8399463.../data=!3m1!1e3..

An interior shot of a tenant gives us a feel for the rather massive size of the building.

Austin Moore, Mar 2021

And this view reveals rough-cut stone construction of the walls.

evandro silveira, Sep 2020

Another tenet appears to be a museum. They did not alter the roof support as drastically.

Swadhin Dol, Jan 2021

The Street View driver must have been a railfan because I don't think they normally cruise parking lots of a shopping mall.

Street View

1948 Colorado Springs Quadrangle @ 1:24,000

Laurenz Edelman posted

I needed to eat and found a place that sounded promising, Colorado Mountain Brewery. It took some time for me to realize I was sitting inside a former roundhouse.

Originally built for the Colorado Midland and passed on to the Midland Terminal Railway, which stopped operating in 1949.

Colorado Springs. Aug 30 2024

Mike Bartels: Prior to this reuse it had been the Van Briggle Pottery Works.

Kristjan VanWinkle: Mike Bartels I think there was also a gym in there as well.

Art Hoffman commented on Laurenz's post