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Volunteers plan 'Remembrance Plaza' to save 1928 Road Remembrance Gateway pillars as CDOT widening approaches
Summary
Volunteers and veterans groups say relocation is the only option to preserve the 1928 Road Remembrance Gateway pillars after intersection reconstruction damaged the monuments. A site at Atlas Valley in Lafayette has been offered and preliminary engineering is under way; fundraising is needed to cover six-figure moving and site costs.
Bill Myers, chair of the mitigation working group led by the Boulder Rotary Club, told the Boulder County Historic Preservation Advisory Board on Dec. 4 that relocation is the only feasible way to preserve the Road Remembrance Gateway pillars after nearby intersection work impaired their historic integrity.
“We soon determined that relocation was the only viable option,” Myers said, describing the pillars’ 1928 origin as a gateway to a planned Arapahoe Road “road of remembrance.” He said Colorado law requires identifying historic structures and assessing adverse effects before construction, but that a developer’s reconstruction left the south pillar marooned and partially buried, prompting a CDOT post-project eligibility and…
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