The Project
The Project Blog below will take you through the step-by-step process on how we are restoring the Goldminer Hotel to its original glory. The blog includes everything from applying for grants, tracking down historic photos, vendors and construction companies that specialize in historic construction and materials and are also listed separately in the Resources section of this site.
For more information on the Goldminer Hotel and the project summary click here.
Entries by Title
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- Switching The Lights
- Social Room: Inspections and Windows
- Social Room: From Floors To Roof
- Social Room: Steel versus Wood and Insulation Anxiety
- Social Room: The Fear of the Dangers Of The Roof
- Social Room: Gathering the Crew and Expertise
- Phase Two Social Club Room: A Brief History
- One Down… Phase One Completed
- The Porch: Ongoing Themes/Issues
- The Porch: Putting it together – the extreme in outrageous detail.
- The Porch: The Field Modifications – Encasing new requirements in old materials, etc. It’s not 1897 anymore…it just looks like it.
- The Quest for Materials
- The Porch: Finding Skilled Labor (not just anybody can do this)
- The Porch: Applying for a Building Permit (just because you submit a document doesn’t mean they’ll take it)
- The Ongoing Quest for Documentation – photos, oral history, public documents
- The First Grant: porch, four front windows, dormer repair, sign restoration, and painting
- How we got started/the beginning of the project