Colorado Questers
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Current Projects
1925 Buckeye School, 2023
Colorado State Questers partnered with the Buckeye Community Club for the restoration of the main floor to the original oak planks. Cache la Poudre and Marie Lafitte Chapters were awarded a $4,120 grant for the project. Chapter presidents Lee Hensley and Joyce Hall identified this P&R project with Ellie Jones of the Buckeye Community Club.
Perry-Mansfield Performing Arts Camp, 2023
In 1913, Charlotte Perry and Portia Mansfield established a performing arts camp in Steamboat Springs. It is the oldest continuously operating performing arts camp in the United State. The Steamboat Springs Chapter was award $2,775 for the restoration of the music room floor, the green room floor, and the original lodge-pole fencing around the original cabin, the "Cabeen." Co-chairs for the project are Clarie Frasier and Lynn Bear.
Superior Historical Museum, 2023
In December 2022, the Marshall Fire destroyed the Superior Historical Museum, a former mine camp home. The Stagecoach Chapter was awarded a $2,000 grant to restore 2 antique school desks with local history provenance. They will be placed in a school room exhibit when the museum has been rebuilt. Paula Doty of Questers and Larry Dorsey of the Superior Historic Commission are leading the project.
