Over the past 120 years, carriage houses and garages have been turned into small bungalows, so when you drive around Downtown Colorado Springs, you often see stately mansions and rambling family homes with a tiny one-bedroom house next door. Over the years, lot lines were re-drawn to make these individual homes their own sellable entities.

When you drive around Downtown Colorado Springs, you will often notice that there are big houses next to small houses. While it has an explanation, during the late 1800s, there was no consistency to how it was planned.