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..

Richard Crabtree posted four images with the comment:

Colorado Midland Roundhouse

Here we are at the Colorado Midland ~ Midland Terminal Roundhouse constructed in 1889 in what was Colorado City now Colorado Springs, Colorado

Photo 1) Colorado Midland No. 27 ~ Class 102 4-6-0 (Schenectady 1888) on turntable.

Colorado Springs, Colorado

July, 1918

Photo Otto Conrad Perry

DPLDC

Photo 2) The gents of the Colorado Midland Roundhouse 1910s Photo UKP

Photo 3) Colorado Springs, Colorado Sanborn Maps LOC

Photo 4) Midland Terminal Roundhouse & Yards Colorado Springs, Colorado 1939

— in Colorado Springs, CO.

Roger Eyrich shared

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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