Pueblo’s Keating School is now on both the National Register of Historic Places and the state's register. Plans are in the works to give new life to the nearly century-old brick building that’s been unused since 2009.
Six sandstone columns stand at the entrance to the Classical Revival-style building. Its varicolored masonry has diamond patterns.
“The whole building, inside and out, has had very little work done to it over the years," said Corinne Koehler, who leads Keating School, the non-profit group managing the project. "They have really preserved the historic aspects of the building."
The interior has terrazzo floors, glazed brick and marble accents, and a 600-plus seat auditorium with a plaster floral ornamented balcony and exposed beamed ceiling.
“It is a beautiful theater,” Koehler said. “It has original light fixtures, the original seats. And so restoring that to its glory from the 1920s would be great.”