Becoming active in historic preservation, Alan Fisher was a founding member of the Denver Landmark Preservation Commission in 1967, and its chairman from 1970 to 1973.Stephen J. Leonard and Thomas Jacob Noel, Denver: Mining Camp to Metropolis, Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1990, , p. 452. He renovated the Opera House in Central City, Colorado, recreating the musician's gallery it had originally had.Caroline Bancroft, Gulch of Gold: A History of Central City, Colorado, Denver: Sage, 1958, , p. 275.
