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Goodnight BarnType: Traditional | Size: Small 
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| Terrain:  By: Colorado 59'er @ | Hide Date: 07/18/2015 | Status: Available Country: United States | State: Colorado Coordinates: N38° 15.430 W104° 41.471 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0 
Charles Goodnight was a pioneer cattleman in Texas, New Mexico and Colorado. A local group is looking to restore the barn you see before you to its 1871 appearance for the use of future generations. I've been involved with this group since its beginning and felt old beauty needed a cache nearby. Small cache. Bring You Own Pencil. No need to go over fence. Can be high traffic area, so be sure to pull well off the road and watch out for Muggles! Good News! Stone and mortar restoration will begin this spring. For information and updates visit: www.goodnightbarnpueblo.org. Text from the Colorado Historical Sociey (History Colorado) sign not accessible from road: The Goodnight Barn is the sole surviving structure of Charles Goodnight’s Rock Canyon Ranch. One of the more intact and unique examples of the vernacular architecture of open range cattle ranching in southeastern Colorado, the Goodnight Barn is built from local materials – Dakota Formation sandstone bricks and hand-hewn pine beams. Southern Colorado was a cultural meeting ground for Hispano and Anglo-American architectural styles, and that is apparent in the Goodnight Barn. While Charles Goodnight intended his barn to serve a fundamentally practical purpose, he also meant it to be a statement of status and display of wealth. The barn and the stone corrals were a symbol of status to other settlers in the area and communicated his intention to establish himself and his wife as prominent citizens of Pueblo.Goodnight incorporated ornament decorative elements such as arched hay doors that were not common on barns and outbuildings in southeastern Colorado. He also used deliberate symmetry into the barn’s architecture. Goodnight’s barn was fairly unique for its sheer monumentality. It served as an early example of the influx of Anglo-American architectural culture that was, at the time, only beginning to shape the burgeoning town of Pueblo. The Goodnight Barn was originally built as a horse barn with space for tack and carriage storage, and was later converted to use as a dairy barn. It is situated on a slightly cocked north-south axis between Thatcher Road and the Arkansas River in Pueblo, Colorado. In 1927, the Colorado State Historical Society wrote a letter to Charles Goodnight, then residing in Clarendon, Texas, soliciting information about Goodnight’s days in Colorado and the building of this ranch near Pueblo. Goodnight’s response was brief but cordial and gave the basic chronology of the ranch buildings. He stated that he had purchased the original adobe buildings on the ranchstead from Charles Peck in 1869, then built the barn and its stone corrals in 1871, and sold the ranch in 1875 to one J. Livesy. No need to cross the fence to find the cache.
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