To the west the lots back on the Crystal River, beyond which is State Highway 133 and the mountains on the other side of the valley in Grand Mesa National Forest.

A quarter-mile (500 m) to the south is the older portion of town at the northern end of the Redstone Historic District, also listed on the National Register.

The building itself is a one-story square-shaped wood frame structure sided in clapboard with a pyramidal metal roof.

[2] During the late 19th century in Colorado and other Western states, miners often built improvised houses or log cabins of wood, sod and whatever leftover materials they could scavenge for themselves and their families near the remote mines they worked at.

[3] In the late 1890s, John C. Osgood began to realize long-held plans of his to mine the high-quality coal of the upper Crystal valley.

The company town had a dormitory for unmarried workers, lodges, a school, library and firehouse amid more than 80 small wooden cottages with running water and electricity, both luxuries by the standards of mines of that era.

Architect Theodore Boal designed all the buildings in various Victorian styles of the era, particularly the Swiss chalet and Tudor Revival modes, adapting them to the mountain setting.

Many show the influence of Andrew Jackson Davis's mid-century pattern book, The Architecture of Country Houses.

In 1909 the mines and coke ovens were shut down when the company found it was no longer profitable to ship coal to its new plant in Pueblo.