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Photograph of Lafayette House
Photograph by Jeffrey Beall, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Lafayette House

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.

From the record

“The Lafayette House is a historic boarding house located at 600 East Simpson Street in Lafayette, Colorado. Built in 1900, the house opened as a boarding house for coal miners working in nearby mines.”

Wikipedia article Lafayette House, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 92 National Register listings published here for Boulder County · listed in 1983 · category: Building.

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

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 2 buildingss, 1 object as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. 600 E. Simpson St., Lafayette, 80026
  • When was it listed? May 1983
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Lafayette Coal Mining Era Buildings TR
  • Census division. Lafayette-Louisville
  • National Register reference number. 83001300 - 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

354 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 354 fires within 5 miles of Lafayette House between 1992 and 2020, burning about 1,412 acres in total. 16 started naturally. 15 were 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/undetermined258
Smoking18
Natural16
Arson/incendiarism15
Equipment and vehicle use13
Debris and open burning11
Recreation and ceremony8
Misuse of fire by a minor6
Fireworks6
Railroad operations and maintenance2
Other causes1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreDenver CountyUNKNOWN
7 September 2016Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreMountain View Fire Protection DistrictUNKNOWN
7 September 2015Naturalunder an acreNorth Metro Fire Rescue DistrictUNKNOWN
6 September 2011Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State HeadquartersERIE
6 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-State Headquartersnot named
5 September 2020Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreRocky Mountain Fire Protection DistrictN/A
4 September 1993Misuse of fire by a minorunder an acreColorado State Forest Service-Boulder Districtnot named
3 September 2017Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreLafayette Fire DepartmentUNKNOWN

Every fire recorded in Boulder County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 11 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 11 workings within 5 miles of Lafayette House: 5 past producers, 4 occurrences, 2 producers. 2 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Gold, Fire Clay (Refractory). Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
UnknownFire Clay (Refractory)Occurrence
BeaverGoldPast Producer
Standard MineGoldPast Producer
BakerSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
Crane PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Erie PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast Producer
StateSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel
UnknownSand and Gravel, ConstructionOccurrenceSand and Gravel

Every working recorded in Boulder County

Storms near this property

42 since 1993

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Lafayette, the town this property stands in, in 42 storm reports between 1993 and 2025: 37 hail, 3 lightning, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 2021Flash FloodLafayette$20,000Heavy rain caused localized flash flooding in Erie. Standing water stranded vehicles at the Intersection of Highway 7 and Mountain View Blvd. A couple of basements also flooded.
September 1993HailLafayette$5,000no account filed
August 2025HailLafayette-The report was from mPING.
August 2025HailLafayette-The report was from mPING.
June 2025HailLafayette-Report from mping.
June 2025HailLafayette-Report from mping.
June 2025HailLafayette-Report from mping.
June 2025HailLafayette-Report from mping.
May 2024HailLafayette-The report was from mping.
May 2024HailLafayette-The report was via mping.
June 2003LightningLafayette-A lightning strike caused extensive damage to a residence in Lafayette as it sparked a fire in the attic.
July 2001LightningLafayette-Lightning struck a home damaging the roof and attic.
July 2001LightningLafayette-Lightning struck another residence, shorting out the electrical system.
October 1994Thunderstorm WindLafayette-Hail, up to a half inch, was associated with the thunderstorm.
July 2025HailLafayette-no account filed
May 2024HailLafayette-no account filed
October 2022HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
September 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
September 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2019HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2018HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2018HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2018HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2018HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2015HailLafayette-no account filed
May 2010HailLafayette-no account filed
May 2010HailLafayette-no account filed
May 2010HailLafayette-no account filed
May 2010HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2010HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2010HailLafayette-no account filed
June 2009HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2009HailLafayette-no account filed
July 2007HailLafayette-no account filed
August 2004HailLafayette-no account filed
August 2004HailLafayette-no account filed
June 1995HailLafayette-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Boulder 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

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Miller House0.1 miles1983
Congregational Church0.2 miles1983
Terrace, The0.2 miles1987
Kullgren House0.2 miles1983
Lewis House0.3 miles1983
Shannon Farm2.6 miles2003

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 83001300 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Boulder CountyAll 92 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.