Tours
The Teller House hotel, opened in 1872, is the home of the infamous Face on the Barroom Floor.
The Central City Opera House, built in 1878, is home to the fifth oldest opera company in the United States.
Tours of the Teller House and Opera House may not be available on certain days during opera season dependent on the opera’s schedule.
The Thomas House tour has its own page with the house’s history, hours and admission.
St. James Methodist Church, dedicated in 1872, is the oldest operating Protestant church in Colorado.
The church features beautiful stained-glass windows, Eastlake style frescoes, and an 1898 Steere pipe organ.
The Weekly Register-Call is the oldest continuously printed newspaper in Colorado, and after the closure of the Rocky Mountain News in 2009, it became the oldest newspaper in the state. This print shop, in the Masonic Building, was used from the 1860s until the early 1980s and is home to antique printing equipment, including a Chicago Taylor Press and a vast collection of fonts.
