Fun Fact: We Found A Time Capsule!
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Our Historic Building - A Part Of Breckenridge History As you may already know, the office building we at Breckenridge Associates Real Estate call home is a Breckenridge original. Commonly viewed in the background of one of Breckenridge's most famous images of little girl, Ella Foote, our office was home to Ella and her family. Ella Foote peers through a snow tunnel. The Breckenridge Associates Real Estate building is in the background . In this most celebrated image (above) of Victorian Breckenridge, young Ella Foote peers through a snow tunnel across Main Street during the Great Winter of 1898. That year it began to snow on November 27, and continued until February 20, 1899. Snow rose to the rooftops, people exited buildings through second story windows, and tunnels were dug across roads to allow foot traffic. The trains were helpless against 40-foot snowdrifts and Breckenridge was completely cut off from the outside world for 79 days. The building wa...