national park
Rocky Mountain National Park
Alpine tundra, mountain peaks, and pristine lakes along the Continental Divide in Colorado.
37 km · about 45 min drive
Colorado, United States · North America
Lyons sits on the route: 30 minutes from Longmont, 37km from Rocky Mountain National Park.
Lyons is a town located in Colorado, United States. With a population of 2,147, it is an important destination in North America.
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The Old Stone Congregational Church, also known as the First Congregational Church of Lyons, is a historic church in Lyons, Colorado, built in 1894-5 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
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Longmont in 1889, less than a decade after E. S. Lyon arrived in the area from Connecticut and bought 160 acres (65 ha) of land that include the original townsite of Lyons. Construction of the church building, on the northwest corner of 4th and High Streets, began in 1894 and was completed on September 23, 1895. The minister and members of the congregation contributed much of the necessary labor, in addition to money and materials. The principal building material was sandstone that was locally quarried, cut by hand and laid in horizontal courses of irregularly sized blocks. The National Register nomination notes that much of the work on the building was done by master stonecutters with the result that the "cutting and fitting [of the stone] is exceptionally well executed." The walls are 20 inches (51 cm) thick.
The facade is asymmetrical with the church's principal door leading into the base of a single tower. The door has a semicircular arch of radiating stone voussoirs. Central to the facade are a pair of windows topped by horizontal stone lintels. A decorative feature of the facade is the large arch of voussoirs which rises above the windows. In the gable is an ocular ventilation opening framed by voussoirs and set with louvres. The tower rises to a stone course at the height of the gable, above which is a louvred chamber with a "candle-snuffer" roof.
For more than ten years after the completion of the building (until a Methodist church was built in town), this was the only church in Lyons. At the time of its National Register listing, the congregation was affiliated with the United Church of Christ, but it no longer identifies itself with that denomination.
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Lyons is located in Colorado, United States, North America. The coordinates are 40.2247 latitude, -105.2714 longitude.
Lyons has a population of approximately 2,147 people, making it a town in United States.
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national park
Alpine tundra, mountain peaks, and pristine lakes along the Continental Divide in Colorado.
37 km · about 45 min drive
famous road
The highest continuous paved road in the US, reaching 3,713 meters through Rocky Mountain National Park above the treeline.
40 km · about 45 min drive
restaurant
Denver's oldest restaurant, holding Colorado liquor licence No. 1 since 1893, with over 500 taxidermy mounts on the walls and a menu running to elk, rattlesnake and Rocky Mountain oysters.
59 km · about 70 min drive
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