A Threat Comes To Pass

A landowner drops historic properties in a high-stakes gamble.

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February 19, 2003, 2:00 PM PST

"Frank Baumgartner killed a hostage last summer. At least that's how people who work to protect the abandoned shafts, shacks, and boarding houses in this old mining district see it. After a land dispute with the state wasn't settled to his satisfaction, Baumgartner, a 74-year-old retired oilman, geologist, and property owner, bulldozed the Kohler-Longfellow Boarding House (1902) and a nearby mine manager's residence. Evidence of the structural carnage lies a few yards off a stretch of the high-altitude San Juan Skyway in the southwestern part of the state."

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History / Preservation Colorado

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