Photograph of Telluride Historic District — Photograph by Donald P. Cram, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Old Bank of Telluride Building

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.

From the record

“The Telluride Historic District encompasses a significant portion of the developed area of the former mining boom town of Telluride, Colorado. Telluride was founded in 1878, and was a major metals mining center until 1913.”
Wikipedia article Telluride Historic District, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 9 National Register listings published here for San Miguel County · listed in 1966 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 305 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
Address. Rt. 145, Telluride, 81435
When was it listed? October 1966
Category. building
Census division. Telluride
National Register reference number. 66000256 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

30 since 1994

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 30 fires within 5 miles of Old Bank of Telluride Building between 1994 and 2020, burning about 220 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Natural	5
Recreation and ceremony	4
Smoking	3
Debris and open burning	2
Equipment and vehicle use	2
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2001	Smoking	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	BLUE LAKE
12 September 2011	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	MOUNTAIN VILLAGE
10 September 2018	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Telluride Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
4 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Telluride Fire Protection District	UNKNOWN
24 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	PROSPECT BASIN
24 August 2007	Natural	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	LIFT 6
5 July 2003	Fireworks	under an acre	Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre and Gunnison National Forests	BEAR CREEK
4 July 2003	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Colorado State Forest Service-State Headquarters	not named

Every fire recorded in San Miguel County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 173 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 173 workings within 5 miles of Old Bank of Telluride Building: 131 past producers, 31 unknowns, 5 producers, 5 occurrences. 5 still produce. What was taken out: Gold, Silver, Lead, Lead, Silver. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Alta Mine	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc	Past Producer
Andrus Mine	Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver	Past Producer	Chalcopyrite, Galena, Pyrite, Sphalerite
Animas Aggregates	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer
Atlanta Tunnel	Gold, Lead, Thorium, Zinc, Copper	Past Producer
Black Bear	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver	Past Producer
Black Hawk Tunnel	Gold, Silver, Copper	Past Producer
Black Jack Lode, Ruth	Silver, Molybdenum	Occurrence	Molybdenite
Carbonero Mine	Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver	Producer	Sphalerite
Columbia Tun	Gold, Lead, Copper, Silver	Past Producer
Court House-Dynamo	Gold, Copper, Silver	Past Producer

Every working recorded in San Miguel County

Storms near this property

17 since 1996

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Telluride, the town this property stands in, in 17 storm reports between 1996 and 2024: 6 debris flow, 4 flash flood, 3 wildfire, 2 flood. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
August 2001	Flash Flood	Telluride	$400,000	no account filed
August 2003	Flash Flood	Telluride	$20,000	no account filed
July 1996	Flash Flood	Telluride	$4,000	no account filed
August 2022	Debris Flow	Telluride	$1,000	Several mudslides occurred on Black Bear Pass and the nearby Bridal Veil Road and Bridal Veil Trail as a result of heavy rain from thunderstorms. An abundance of boulders and mud accumulated on the pass. Water flowed down from the peak and across the road below. Eight vehicles and fifteen occupants were stranded as a result of the debris flows. The pass and roads remained closed for several days for cleanup operations.
August 2024	Debris Flow	Telluride	-	Steady heavy rains during the evening of August 11th resulted in multiple mudslides and flooding overnight in east Telluride, Bridal Veil Falls Area and Tomboy Road. This resulted in closures of several nearby passes including from the East Spur at the Town of Telluride entrance east to Black Bear, Black Bear Pass itself, Tomboy Road and Imogene Pass. Time of event was based on radar estimate.
July 2021	Debris Flow	Telluride	-	San Miguel Sheriff's Office reported mudslides near Bridal Veil Falls going across the road as a result of heavy rains.
June 2020	Debris Flow	Telluride	-	Debris left over from the 2019 avalanches became dislodged by heavy rain in the Marshall Creek Basin. A large amount of trees, wood, and other debris from old mining structures travelled down the drainage until it reached the culvert near CR K-69, near the Idarado mine. The water and debris overwhelmed the drainage and began flowing across the roadway. The downstream portion of the roadway began to scour with water and eroded the embankment along the southern shoulder. The road was closed for a few hours.
July 2020	Debris Flow	Telluride	-	A mudslide that measured 35 feet wide and was 3 to 5 feet deep occurred around midday and blocked Bridal Veil Road. More than 40 people were temporarily stranded while county road crews created a temporary passage. Additionally, boulders the size of small refrigerators were seen tumbling down. Radar estimates showed one hour rain rates of up to half an inch.
July 2019	Debris Flow	Telluride	-	Thunderstorms produced heavy rain southeast of Telluride which resulted in some debris flow at Bridal Veil Road. At least four feet of water was running across the road which caused it to be completely washed away where it crossed Ingram Falls. Additionally, several inches of rock was displaced across the area. Radar estimated rainfall rates of 0.50 to 0.75 inches per hour.
June 2005	Thunderstorm Wind	Telluride	-	no account filed
July 2003	Wildfire	Telluride	-	no account filed
June 2002	Wildfire	Telluride	-	no account filed
July 2002	Wildfire	Telluride	-	no account filed
July 2002	Flash Flood	Telluride	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	Telluride	-	no account filed
August 2001	Flood	Telluride	-	no account filed
July 2000	Hail	Telluride	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in San Miguel County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Smuggler-Union Hydroelectric Power Plant	2.6 miles	1979
Fort Peabody	4.3 miles	2005
Lewis Mill	4.5 miles	2009
Valley View Leasing and Mining Company Mill	7.3 miles	2010

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 66000256 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
San Miguel County	All 9 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.