Lamar Properties listed on National & State Registers 

AT&SF Railway Passenger Depot

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway was Lamar’s link to the outside world and construction of the AT&SF Passenger Depot in 1907 was a symbol of the town’s economic success and stature as a regional hub. 

Davies Hotel / Payne Hotel

The Davies Hotel is typical of the numerous small-town hotels whose location near the railroad depot provided them with a steady stream of lodgers. 

Lamar Post Office

Built in 1936, the building is an especially pleasing example illustrating the Spanish Colonial / Mediterranean influence on Neoclassicism. Pueblo architect Walter DeMordaunt designed the building.  Located at Fifth & Elm Street in Lamar, Colorado.

Paulsen Farm

The property has been associated with agriculture in the Lamar area since Claus Paulsen established the farm in 1901.  Between 1910 and 1915, Paulsen represented the Payne Investment Company of Omaha, Nebraska, and in this capacity escorted would-be homesteaders from the Midwest to new homes in southeast Colorado.  Located at 39035 Rd. 7, outside of Lamar - Rd. SS and Rd. 7.

Petticrew Stage Stop

In the early 1890s, the John L. Petticrew family settled in southern Prowers County and operated a stage stop between Lamar and Springfield.  The house, barn and associated rock walls are good, intact examples of sandstone construction utilizing locally quarried stone as designed and executed by the property owner.  Located 25 miles south of Lamar on private land.

Prowers County Welfare Housing

The Prowers County Welfare Housing is important for its association with President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal legislative agenda to rescue the United States from the Great Depression.  Located at East Maple in Lamar, Colorado.