What we know
Built in 1892 by John Geiger and moved a short way southwest in 1910; a cement foundation in 1926 and electricity in October 1936, in time for the Halloween program; closed for good in 1957 and now a residence (county map, S-0123). Two Larkspur society texts date the move to about 1900, not 1910 (S-0045); District 23. The county's Greenland Townsite landmark page (2011) says the school 'opened in 1883,' closed in 1951, reopened in 1954 and closed in 1957 (S-0126); the 1883 date may be the district's and 1892 this building's.
Where it was
Pin on the Douglas County Historic Resource Map (DCHR-188; Douglas County and Douglas County Libraries, 2012, on the Larkspur Historical Society's Google map, S-0123). Where that map and ours place the same site, the pins mostly fall within about 300 feet. Good to a few hundred feet.
Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.
Sources
- S-0045: Larkspur Historical Society website (larkspurhistoricalsociety.org)
- S-0046: Douglas County Libraries, Archives & Local History: "Douglas County Timeline," "Douglas County Historic Sites," "Douglas County Schools Overview" (research collection PDFs 2, 7, 6)
- S-0123: Douglas County Historic Resource Map (Douglas County Community Planning and Sustainable Development, the Douglas County History Research Center of Douglas County Libraries, and the Douglas County Historic Preservation Board, 2012), as put on Google Maps and Google Earth by the Larkspur Historical Society
- S-0126: Douglas County Historic Preservation Board and Landmarks Program: landmark pages (2010-2022), board minutes and documents, the 2009 landmarks map and the 2010 Historic Resources map PDF (douglas.co.us, via the Wayback Machine)
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.