National and State Register

Livermore Hotel & General Store

Larimer County

The wood frame 1890 Livermore Hotel and General Store functioned as the center of community commercial life through 1922.  The store offered general merchandise for area ranchers and housed the community post office and first telephone exchange.  The hotel served as an important way station on the stage lines between Fort Collins, Laramie, and the Red Feather Lakes area. 

A view of the hotel with central entrance and porch above. There are prominently stationed gabled windows on the left and top.

Livermore Hotel & General Store

The hotel is a vernacular structure employing period stylistic elements, including wide first and second story porches, a front bay window, and shingled gable ends.  The store, a rare surviving example of an architectural type once common throughout Colorado, features tall storefront windows surrounding a central door, a rectangular plan, and a front gabled roof.