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The St Paul, Minnesota-based company was founded in 1851 and was one of the largest and oldest independent contract stationers in the United States.
The idea of establishing an agricultural college in Fort Collins was initially advanced by Larimer County Representative Harris Stratton in 1867.
He entered the cattle business in 1867 and was a prominent businessman, serving as president of the Poudre Valley National Bank and on the board of county commissioners.
The Fort Collins town plat of 1873 embraced roughly 935 acres of land.
In 1874, the territorial legislature appropriated one thousand dollars as start-up money for the college after intense lobbying by Norman H. Meldrum.
In 1875, the local grange evidenced its support of the college when it plowed up twenty acres of the donated campus land and planted it, raising a crop to be sold to establish a fund for the institution.
When the state constitution was written in 1876, it incorporated the concept of an agricultural college and a state board of agriculture to oversee it.
In order to ensure that the town was not bypassed by the Colorado Central, the Fort Collins Board of Trustees enacted an ordinance in June 1877 giving the railroad a right of way north-south through the town along Mason Street, plus additional land for yards and a depot.
By the spring of 1878, Fort Collins was in the midst of a new period of prosperity and development, during which a number of the city's most substantial business blocks, public buildings, and residences would be erected.
According to Colorado’s State Archives, Pitkin served as governor from 1879-83 and was a lawyer and mining investor prior.
In 1879, forty-one buildings were erected in Fort Collins and Watrous noted that 1,150,000 bricks were laid.
The Avery House incorporates elements of the Gothic Revival style and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places (See Figure 22). The house was constructed by Franklin and Sarah Avery at the corner of Mountain Avenue and Meldrum Street in 1879.
By 1879, population in town had grown to the extent that the small frame schoolhouse on Riverside was no longer adequate.
In 1879, the Colorado Agricultural College campus received its first substantial building.
The frame and brick Welch Building fire in 1880, which cost two lives, motivated the town to establish a Hook and Ladder company during the same year.
In 1880, James Harrison purchased forty acres of land one-half mile south of the old section of town.
Quayle moved to Denver from Illinois in 1880.
The GSL&P was incorporated in January 1881 in response to surveying activities up the Cache la Poudre Canyon by the Denver, Salt Lake, and Western Railroad, a line associated with UP's rival, the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy.
In March 1881, J.C. Abbott purchased three lots from Harrison.
John F. Colpitts designed and built the three-story opera house block which opened in 1881.
In 1881, Abraham L. Emigh platted the Lake Park Addition, a huge area east of College Avenue between Elizabeth and Pitkin.
In the fall of 1882 the Union Pacific determined that the effort to push a line through the Cache la Poudre Canyon was too expensive and abandoned the project.
In 1882, the bank became known as the First National Bank of Fort Collins.
In 1882, city services were further expanded when the town approved by vote a city water system for domestic and fire purposes.
Another example of the style is the house at 2912 East Horsetooth Road associated with the farm established by English immigrant Joseph Sainsbury in 1882.
St Luke's Episcopal Church (demolished) was a small, 1882 Gothic Revival chapel with steeply pitched gabled roof, gabled entrance bay with double doors with pointed arched opening, pointed arched windows, and flying buttresses.
In 1887, work on the Larimer County Courthouse, designed by architect William Quayle, began in Courthouse quare in New Town between Mountain and Oak Streets.
Montezuma Fuller designed a business block for John Kissock in 1889.
In 1890, the fattened lambs were marketed in Chicago, where they produced a profit.
Akin raised horses, cows, chickens, lambs, and started an orchard north of his 1890 stone dwelling.
The Robert Andrews house at 324 East Oak is one of the city's best examples of the Queen Anne style (See Figure 24). The circa 1892 dwelling has a rusticated, sandstone foundation and brick walls, and decorative wooden shingles in multiple gable ends.
Dwelling units by block were tabulated from the 1894 W. C. Willits map of Fort Collins and vicinity and are mapped in Figure 20.
The 1894 Willits map indicates that the heaviest development by that date had occurred along Howes Street between Maple and Cherry streets in Block 43.
The Willits map of 1894 indicates that about fifteen houses had been built in the addition by that date, mostly on the northern and eastern edges.
In 1896, Alin H. and Amanda Fry built a very representative one-story frame house with a vernacular Gabled L plan at 202 West Myrtle (See Figure 27). The small dwelling had horizontal board siding with corner boards, a stone foundation, and brick chimney.
In 1897, he created the Avery Block for prominent businessman Franklin C. Avery.
In 1898, the Colorado and Southern Railway was created, including the former trackage of both the Colorado Central and the GSL&P lines.
The presence of a number of large public structures on the 1899 map, such as the Courthouse, Remington School, and Franklin School, is also a striking difference.
A overview of the physical development of Fort Collins at the end of the century is provided in Merritt D. Houghton's 1899 bird's-eye-view map of city (See Figure 17). Houghton was an artist who later moved to Laramie, Wyoming, and specialized in sketching ranches and the countryside.
Despite the rate of growth, the town dropped to the sixteenth largest in Colorado in 1900 as a result of more rapid growth occurring in booming mining communities.
St Joseph's Catholic Church at 300 West Mountain was constructed in 1900, with stone from the quarries west of Fort Collins, including the Stout quarry, the Frye quarry, and the Lamb quarry.
The 1903 Baptist Church (328 Remington) was a fortress-like structure, with rusticated stone walls, and a large, square entrance tower with crenelated roof.
The plant at the northwest corner of West Mountain Avenue and Mason Street provided power until 1908 when the franchise was purchased by the Northern Colorado Power Company.
In about 1912, Garbutt left Fort Collins to practice architecture in Wyoming, where he designed a number of buildings in Casper.
In 1913, Francis J. Fisher bought the building and remodeled it into a warehouse for his specialty building supply business.
Rysavy obtained the heavily indebted store in November 1986 for $100 and the assumption of $15,000 in overdue accounts payable.
In the fall of 1987, after seeing the success of his corporate strategy, Rysavy hired a researcher to collect material on the office supply industry.
Boyhood friend and computer software developer Pavel Bouska came from Munich to Colorado to help in 1988.
In 1994, after going public through an initial offering of nine million shares at $7 per share, the company completed six acquisitions in exchange for 1.7 million shares of stock swapped and revenues skyrocketed to $1.15 billion.
Certain key customers began testing an Internet version of the system in late 1996.
Revenues at the delivery unit grew to more than $700 million by 1998, but the operation was losing money.
In June 1999 Corporate Express sold Sofco to United States Foodservice for $56 million.
In July 1999 Corporate Express agreed to be bought by Buhrmann N.V., a Dutch firm that owned one of Corporate Express's main United States rivals, Chicago-based BT Office Products, and was also involved in paper merchanting and the distribution of graphic systems in Europe.
Analysts estimated the company would reach $3 billion in the year 2000.
Already in 2000, under the stewardship of Buhrmann, Corporate Express began growing again through several smaller acquisitions in Europe and Australia, most notably the purchase of ANFA S.A., which marked the company's entrance into the French market.
In 2008, Van Dyken-Rouen was inducted into the United States Olympic & Paralympic Hall of Fame, and she also holds a place in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
CDOT is designing the I-25 North corridor in segments and phases, according to the 2011 Final Environmental Impact Statement, which analyzed potential transportation solutions along the corridor between Fort Collins/Wellington and downtown Denver, as well as along US 85 and US 287.
Paralyzed from the waist down after an accident in 2014, Van Dyken-Rouen now competes in adaptive sports.
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