Description Unsent color postcard of 1564 Balcony House, Looking Northward, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado as stated by caption on top of postcard. This is an illustration and not a photograph. On the back of the postcard is information of the Balcony House - "Balcony House is one of the most notable of the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde; being situated at the extreme east of the district. It was one of the communal apartment houses of a race who mysteriously vanished long before the coming of the first white man."