“The Managers”
Green Mountain Falls, CO
The Lake View Terrace hotel in the small Front Range town of Green Mountain Falls, CO, has stood practically since the community’s founding in the 1880s. Originally designed as a boarding house for the vacationers who visited Green Mountain Falls each summer, the 10-room hotel served meals for 60 guests a day, including several dozen families camping in canvas platform tents in the valley behind. In 2022, as a Green Box writer-in-residence, Molly teased from the historical archive the names and stories of the different women who ran the Terrace over the years. Often older and single, widowed or divorced (or divorced and claiming to be widowed), Molly tracks the opportunities and limitations within which women worked at the turn of the 20th century in rural Colorado. The result are nine micro-essays installed on the front windows of the now abandoned Terrace building in downtown Green Mountain Falls.
READ: “Molly Rideout recalls generations of Colorado women in a new installation” Art Desk Magazine, May 2023.
Project funded by Green Box. Photos by Molly Rideout and Jeff Kearney/TDC Photography for Green Box.
