Cripple Creek historic district Front Range Ceramic Art Tile

A gold-rush town at 9,494 feet, on the southwest flank of Pikes Peak. Most of the streets in the historic district were rebuilt in brick after the wooden camp burned in April 1896. The gold is mostly gone; the Cripple Creek and Victor district produced more than 23 million troy ounces between 1891 and the early 1960s, but the brick stayed. Bennett Avenue still runs the spine of the district. The Imperial Hotel still serves food. The narrow-gauge train still pulls out of the old depot. A quiet town now, where about twelve hundred people live where twenty-five thousand once did.

Slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, in our family studio in Knoxville, Tennessee.