My gallery is located on sunny Silver Street in Lake City, Colorado, gateway to The Alpine Loop. My historic little building is filled with stunning prints from around my home in the San Juan Mountains, the American West, and beyond, with sizes and formats to fit almost any space in your home or office.

I opened the gallery in May of 2018 and try to improve (or at least change!) things every year. Each year and season, you'll find a refresh of new photos, along with my all time favorite images. I also have calendars, puzzles, cards and other products coming out regularly.

You'll also find a growing selection of hand-carved pine-beetle-kill animals, Lake City apparel, gifts, and more. Stop in and have a look around next time you’re in most remote county in Colorado!

Summer Hours: June-October

• Sunday: 12am-3pm 
• Monday: 10am-5pm
• Tuesday: 10am-5pm
• Wednesday: 10am-5pm
• Thursday: 10am-5pm
• Friday: 10am-5pm 
• Saturday: 10am-5pm

Winter Hours: October-May

• Unpredictable, but Open.
•  I am occasionally open but travel, hiking, and photo taking are first priority. That said, if you're in town of going to be I'm happy to make sure I'm open! For an appointment or to check please contact me!

Location - 

The gallery is located in the heart of historic downtown business district of Lake City, Colorado at 219 Silver Street. It is just across the Town Park in the town center and one block off Colorado Highway 149, and The Alpine Loop.

Online Ordering?

I'm sorry, but at this time nothing other than my prints are available online.  2027 Calendars are available here

History of 219 Silver Street

In 1873 this mountain valley was just that, as the months progressed the miners came, and began their dreams of a new Golconda. They dug in, put up tents, then walls, and finally founded Lake City in 1875. The building of a town had begun.

219 Silver Street was built in 1876 as one of three identical false front buildings next to each other on Silver Street with an appraised value of $1100. The boomtown was booming! It was used as a saloon for its first years and then a wholesale liquor concern. By 1880 it opened to the public again and was a saloon and billiard parlor called the Delmonico which featured “two billiard tables and nattily-dressed waiters in white shirts, ties and vests”, then a retail liquor and cigar store owned by Dave Lowenstein, after that Al Forest ran 'the finest billiard hall to be found in the San Juan's' up until 1889.

In 1889, it was remodeled into a US Post Office. In 1891, the postmaster was convicted of embezzlement, and thus ownership changed once again. This time German born Charles Forberg moved his barbershop and bathhouse into the building. He retired in 1917 and handed the shop over to William Vekerotas, who stabilized and added a new floor. It was a barbershop until 1926, when it changed hands to the Ladies Aid Society and in turn the Pioneer Jubilee Women’s Club in 1930.

In these fifty years, Lake City went from boomtown of five to ten thousand, to a near ghost town of maybe 200. This was caused by the Great Silver Crash of 1893, minerals drying up, and fires that burned most of the town, twice, first in 1879, and again in 1915. The four surviving buildings on Silver were saved only because they were bookended by the stone Crystal Peak Masonic Lodge and Stone Bank Block. It was a dire time for the town.

By 1949,  219 Silver Street was described as “one of the towns oldest and most dilapidated structures” and "has been an eyesore for the town for years."  Thankfully, the building was spared demolition by the Ladies Aid Club who recruited their spouses to remodel and stabilize the building after being spurred on by a nationwide “build a better community” project. In an era where historical preservation or restoration didn't really exist this was a miracle. They straightened, stabilized, replaced the cornice, and removed the other small commercial space that was wedged between 219 and 221.

This spared the demolition, and then they used the reconditioned building for a meeting hall, library and a museum up until 1975. This is when they donated the use of the building to the newly founded Lake City Medical Center.

The community remodeled the front portion for this purpose, and it served this purpose until 1991 when the new Medical Center was completed. It was remodeled once again, removing the medical rooms to a single commercial space, fixing the north wall, and roof. Since then it’s been a retail space with a host of tenants and owners, modeling the turbulent boomtown businesses of old. Most recently I moved in, and plan to keep the building in good shape for whatever the future holds for us!

Have any historical photos or stories of 219? Please send me a message so I can add them!