Just off downtown Loveland, Colorado is the ancient and intriguing Loveland Feed & Grain building. A many-year preservation and restoration effort has been taking place to find new uses for this magnificent building.

I believe that we should all take extra efforts to try to find ways to save these agricultural buildings from the nineteenth century.

I have written quite a bit about trying to find a Colorado vernacular and folding this in to the making of a kind of critical regionalism for the Front Range. I can think of no better example of a building to start with and a potential to fulfill.

(all photos by Mark Gerwing)