NNG Hugo Roundhouse

All the major windows have been installed, with only the clerestory sashes above the doors to be completed. Also, ten of the big engine doors are installed. The restoration group has recently received a $200,000 grant from Colorado's State Historical Fund and has submitted another to the Colorado Department of Transportation for a matching amount. This was a very derelict building whose roof had long collapsed, with one side wall blown down after restoration started. The UP apparently stopped using it in either the late-1940's or early-1950's. The structure served as a hardware store/implement dealer for a time, then was abandoned for decades.

The Hugo roundhouse is one of only two fully intact UP roundhouses extant (the other at Evanston, Wyoming - Cheyenne's is a fraction of original size)). It is being restored as a roundhouse, not for adaptive reuse, as Evanston has done. The project has long been spearheaded by two local women, who appear in the video below. The board of directors consists of four women and one man. Well worth your short detour off I-70 to see it.