Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack, Salida, CO (7)
**Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 76000548, date listed 1976-01-11
NE of Salida at jct. of SR 150 and 152
Salida, CO (Chaffee County)
The Smeltertown Smokestack was built for the Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company. Commenced in 1916 and finished in 1917, this majestic brick and tile structure stands 365 feet into the air, 35 feet taller than the famous Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver, twice as high as the 179 foot Leaning Tower of Pisa. The concrete foundation, 40 feet wide, extends downward 30 feet into the ground to solid granite.
The octagonal base rises approximately 70 feet above ground and is of pressed, glazed brick; the walls here are six feet thick. Above this base rises the circular upper part of the stack; it is constructed of a special tile. Here the walls taper in thickness from six feet, to three and one-half feet at the top. The top, with its flat steel collar, measures seventeen feet in diameter. Two hundred sixty four standard gauge carloads of brick and tile went into the structure. Construction cost was $43,000. It is estimated that at today's construction costs, a similar stack would cost over a million dollars. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/76000548.pdf
Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack, Salida, CO (7)
**Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company Smokestack** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 76000548, date listed 1976-01-11
NE of Salida at jct. of SR 150 and 152
Salida, CO (Chaffee County)
The Smeltertown Smokestack was built for the Ohio-Colorado Smelting and Refining Company. Commenced in 1916 and finished in 1917, this majestic brick and tile structure stands 365 feet into the air, 35 feet taller than the famous Daniels and Fisher Tower in Denver, twice as high as the 179 foot Leaning Tower of Pisa. The concrete foundation, 40 feet wide, extends downward 30 feet into the ground to solid granite.
The octagonal base rises approximately 70 feet above ground and is of pressed, glazed brick; the walls here are six feet thick. Above this base rises the circular upper part of the stack; it is constructed of a special tile. Here the walls taper in thickness from six feet, to three and one-half feet at the top. The top, with its flat steel collar, measures seventeen feet in diameter. Two hundred sixty four standard gauge carloads of brick and tile went into the structure. Construction cost was $43,000. It is estimated that at today's construction costs, a similar stack would cost over a million dollars. (1)
References (1) NRHP Nomination Form npgallery.nps.gov/pdfhost/docs/NRHP/Text/76000548.pdf