Easton Office Building

1636 16th Street/ Roger J. Easton, architect/ Formalism style/ Structure of Merit/ built 1964

This building was designed as the architecture office of Roger Easton. He was a graduate of the Iowa State University College of Architecture and worked in Portland, Oregon for the international modernist firm Skidmore Ownings and Merrill before moving to Boulder to teach at CU. He was one of several young architects who worked in the office of James Hunter before venturing out on his own.

This building is one of the more poetic Modern-era buildings in Boulder. Its ethereal composition, which practically hovers above the ground, is inspired by the architecture of the international master of Modernism, Mies Van Der Rohe. Its front façade is mostly solid walls, while the back side which faces the creek is a wall of windows. The design was given an award by the American Institute of Architects.