Save Our Silos

Save Our Silos How can you help preserve the Coy Farm Historic District? Please click through to the Description on our About page, and thanks for your interest! Woodward Inc.

is proposing to demolish the two 100+-year-old silos at the Coy Barn District, a Colorado Historic Landmark near the NW corner of Lemay and Mulberry--the gateway to Old Town. The Fort Collins Landmark Preservation Commission voted unanimously in March 2016 to recommend the City Council vote to designate the barn, silos, and milk house there as the Coy Farmstead Historic District, which will protec

t all four structures to the fullest extent possible under Fort Collins Municipal Code. Woodward is currently appealing the Building Review Board's second unanimous decision that the silos are not "imminently dangerous" and therefore cannot be torn down. This means that the silos must be repaired Under Code Section 14.53, as directed by the City of Fort Collins, Chief Building Official Mike Gebo in September 2015. To help save the silos, please:

- sign our new petition at https://www.change.org/p/fort-collins-city-council-save-our-silos-repair-and-designate-the-coy-farmstead-fort-collins-colorado

- send letters-to-the-editor of area newspapers, especially the Coloradoan ([email protected])

Please put your letter in the body of the email and send your letter to the:

- Coloradoan: [email protected]

And either of the following:

- Loveland Reporter-Herald: Submit online at: http://www.reporterherald.com/submit
- North Forty News [email protected]

Include your name, phone number and address (this is required by the paper but won’t be published). Include the words "Letter to the Editor" in the subject line. Each newspaper has a maximum word limit. (300 is a good target.) LTEs are short and easy to write. Please help spread the word about the threat to our historic heritage via area newspapers.

- attend the Landmark Preservation Commission meeting on April 13, 5:30 p.m., in Council Chambers, 300 Laporte Avenue

- like our page and posts, share our story and posts with your friends, and keep in touch here. We welcome your posts, photos, and comments!

Repurposing silos for raising crops.
08/07/2017

Repurposing silos for raising crops.

By Ronald Ahrens Jim Kerns and David Geisler called up the other day from Springfield, Missouri, to ask a question of our readers: Are you aware of any municipally owned, abandoned grain elevators?…

FINAL Coy Barn and Milkhouse Landmark Decision at Fort Collins City Council Meeting Tuesday, July 5thHello Coy Farmstead...
06/29/2016

FINAL Coy Barn and Milkhouse Landmark Decision at Fort Collins City Council Meeting Tuesday, July 5th

Hello Coy Farmstead Supporters,

This coming Tuesday, the City Council will finally vote on whether they will designate the Coy Barn and Milkhouse as historic landmarks. The buildings are on the Woodward site.

ACTION: We ask that you to send an email of support for the landmark designation to [email protected] as soon as possible. Just tell them in your own words why landmarking these buildings is important to you. Please don't mention Woodward or the silos.

If you can come to the meeting, too, that would be great. We can again show them that Fort Collins residents treasure our history and historic buildings and want them permanently saved. We think you wouldn't need to arrive until at least 7:30 or 8.

BACKGROUND: At the May 11th Landmark Preservation Commission meeting, Woodward offered to have them consensually designated if the city agreed with 7 conditions. The applicants from Save Our Silos and the LPC agreed to 6 of the 7 conditions. So we are very close to a compromise that might allow the Council to step up to the plate and designate these two highly significant historic buildings as landmarks in perpetuity.

Thanks to Bill Whitley for an excellent letter, and to those who wrote comments on it further expanding on the issues ra...
05/08/2016

Thanks to Bill Whitley for an excellent letter, and to those who wrote comments on it further expanding on the issues raised by City Council's having ignored the unanimous recommendations of the Building Review Board and the Landmark Preservation Commission, not to mention the City's Chief Building Officer and the best-qualified of the engineers weighing in on the silos' condition.

Historical issues aside, this decision was preposterous.

Silos deployed to evoke a town's heritage, an opportunity now foreclosed at the Homestead Natural Area, on our National ...
05/06/2016

Silos deployed to evoke a town's heritage, an opportunity now foreclosed at the Homestead Natural Area, on our National Heritage River corridor. Photos taken Monday in Antonito, Colorado, population 781--a town with commensurately fewer resources than Fort Collins, with our population of over 140,000 people. Like the silos that Woodward has just torn down, these stand at the gateway to the town.

04/23/2016
We'd like you to see some of the paintings of the farmstead from earlier years. One is by a painter who was artist-in-re...
04/23/2016

We'd like you to see some of the paintings of the farmstead from earlier years. One is by a painter who was artist-in-residence at Yellowstone.

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