Pat O’Leary isn’t here. But his spirit, his fingerprints, are everywhere at the corner of North Lena and Clinton streets in Ridgway.

The grand piano in the community event space that he learned to play when he was 50. The greenhouse perched atop the remodeled 142-year-old firehouse, fashioned after one he saw in Denver. The outdoor patio that will forever bear his name, where he would have soaked up the summer evenings. The gleaming marble bar, where it’s easy to envision the Irishman from ...