One of the classic buildings of downtown Greeley, Colorado is now on the market with an asking price of $5.4 million.
The Greeley Building is located at 710 11th Avenue, on the same block as the Union Colony Civic Center, and was built in 1885. An addition to the structure was completed in 1903.
The rectangular-shaped building features overhanging eaves, dentil molding, and stone arches. Five rows of windows on the south elevation side of the structure have the words “Liberty, Literature, Science, Art, and Justice” carved into the sandstone above the glass panels.
Sitting on a 1.1-acre site, the three-story red sandstone structure measures just over 50,200 square feet, and originally served as a high school, decades before being turned into office space, with a current just over 30 tenants.
Listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the structure, designed in the Romanesque Revival style by architect Harlan Thomas, underwent a major renovation in 1985.
The property is being handled by the Greeley-based real estate company Unique Legacy Asset.
The building, like the city and county of Greeley, is named in honor of Horace Greeley, the anti-slavery publisher of the New York Tribune who popularized the phrase “Go West, young man.”
By Garry Boulard
