Old West Cigar Display

Title

Old West Cigar Display

Artist

Janice Pariza

Medium

Photograph - Photography Art

Description

This image was captured at The Museum of the Mountain West in Montrose, Colorado.
When I lived in Montrose, I visited Mr. Fike and his Museum quite often, you can find other shots from this fine Museum in my 'Colorado' Collection.
The Museum of the Mountain West is a history museum off U.S. Route 50 in Montrose, Colorado. It includes a collection of historic log cabins, Western town stores, and other historic buildings which have been moved to the site. The museum was listed on the Colorado state register of historic properties in 2018.
True West Magazine celebrates this museum as the "2021 Best Preserved Re-Created Pioneer Town" and it made the "2018 Editor's List of 15 Museums Not to Miss" providing good reason to put the Museum of the Mountain West on your list of "must do" activities during your time in Montrose.

An impressive inventory of historic buildings and 500,000 artifacts, preserved from the golden years of the Mountain West, are displayed for visitors to experience at the museum.

Housed in the 10,000 square foot main building is a historic post office, doctor's and dentist's offices, drug store, saloon, dry goods store, and many more fascinating displays from our past. From the 1913 German Lutheran Church to the 1890 school to the 1882 Denver & Rio Grande Railroad section house, you will be captivated at life as it was over a century ago.

Most exceptional among the museum's attributes are the knowledgeable docents who guide all tours, offering an experiential taste of what it was like to live in Western Colorado in the early days. If you're lucky, you may run into the museum's founder, Richard Fike, who began collecting at the age of four and was crowned True West Magazine's "Best Western History Collector" in 2021.

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Prints of this art are available on canvas, metal, acrylic and gallery prints, framed or unframed, greeting cards and iPhone or Android phone covers along with so many other quality items. FAA and Pixels has a large selection of frames, mats and surfaces available for you to create museum quality masterpieces of your original print selections. Should you have any questions, feel free to contact me and I can give you any suggestions! Thank you!

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To me, photography is an art of observation. It is about finding something interesting in an ordinary place. I have found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them.

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January 23rd, 2021

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