Most are weathered, some tumbledown, some just vestiges of what they had been. But they’re all pages from the state’s history and named to Colorado’s Most Endangered Places List by the nonprofit Colorado Preservation.

For 23 years, the group has worked with communities to help save some of these sites. Added to the list for 2020 is Isis Theatre in Victor.

The old movie theater is part of the mining town’s “rich architectural heritage,” the group described. In the former Red Light District, it “epitomizes this wildly entertaining past as it serves as a panorama of the history of live theatre, motion pictures and entertainment from the earliest era of the town.”

Originally built in 1899, the theater burned down with much of the town later that year. Rebuilt in 1904, it was the popular site of vaudeville shows, stage performances and movies. Now privately owned, it’s a free museum with movie and theater nostalgia including “vintage costumes, playbills, posters, theater curtains and its original piano.” Some of the wooden seats boast elaborate carvings. Noted the preservation