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Real estate appraisal card. 112 E. 1st Street, lot 17, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected in 1886, when it was indicated as "not complete" on the Sanborn map. The lot on which the building stands had previously held a hose house. In 1886 the building was divided into a furniture store and a grocery. The building, originally known as the Hively-Mandeville Block, was erected by Edwin H. Hively. Edwin W. Hively was an influential...
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Real estate appraisal card. 113 E. 1st Street, part of lots 9 & 10, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected by Salida's IOOF Lodge No. 54 as its meeting hall and lodge rooms. The June 17, 1887 Salida Weekly Mail reported, "Yesterday was a proud time for every Odd Fellow in the Arkansas Valley, in that it saw the corner-stone laid for the new temple to be devoted to use of the three-link order. The box was then made ready, and S.B....
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Real estate appraisal card. 119 E. 1st Street, lot 8 & part of 9, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. The September 30, 1887 Salida Mail reported: "Ira Thompson has leased all of the rooms in the new Bowne building on First and proposes to run a first class sample room in connection with the restaurant. The rooms on the second story will be handsomely furnished for either transient or regular roomers." J.B. Bowne was a Salida pioneer who was a member...
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Real estate appraisal card. 120 W. 1st Street, lot 23, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1926 and 1929. The parcel is vacant in a 1926 photograph of Salida taken from Tenderfoot Mountain, while this building appears on the 1929 Sanborn fire insurance map. The building is addressed as 122 A and B on the 1929 map and as 120 and 124 on the 1945 map. The 1927-28 city directory showed the restaurant of Mrs. N.E. Doering...
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Real estate appraisal card. 127 E. 1st Street, lot 7, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. The 1890 Sanborn map shows a two-story frame restaurant on this site, while the 1893 map is labeled "ruin of fire." The 1898 map shows a one-story rectangular building indicated as a vacant store. The January 1, 1903 Salida Mail records that the Salida Mail added a second story to its business building at a cost of $2,650 in 1902. The upstairs offices housed professionals,...
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Real estate appraisal card. 128 E. 1st Street, lots 19 & 20, block 4, in Salida, Colorado.
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Real estate appraisal card. 128 W. 1st Street, lot 22, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1888 and 1890, according to Sanborn fire insurance maps. The Sanborn maps for 1890 through 1929 show the building divided into two narrow storefronts, with the east one numbered 126 W. 1st and the west one 128. A saloon was located in the east storefront (number 126) in 1890. The storefront was vacant in 1893 and 1898. An assay...
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Real estate appraisal card. 129 W. 1st Street, lots 5-7, block 21, in Salida, Colorado. Salida's original Craig Opera House was destroyed by fire in January 1888. Concerned with the loss to the community, in June 1888 a group of local businessmen organized the Salida Opera House Association with $30,000 in authorized capital stock. The directors of the group were: E.W. Corbin, G.W. McGovern, M.J. Collins, Peter Mulvany, J.W. O'Connor, J.W. Wood,...
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Real estate appraisal card. 132 E. 1st Street, lot 21, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1898 and 1904, based on Sanborn maps. The 1904 map shows the present building, which is labeled "restaurant." The 1903-04 city directory lists the Welch House, operated by Mrs. Mary Welch, at this address. The Welch House advertised furnished rooms and a restaurant. Mrs. Welch's family also lived here, including Kate (a student),...
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Real estate appraisal card. 132 W. 1st Street, lot 20, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. First Story. The building was constructed between 1888 and 1890 as the eastern portion of the Union Block. The ground floor of this building housed a grocery s!ore in 1890, a furniture store in 1893, and a second hand store during the 1898 to 1914 period. The 1903 through 1922-23 city directories showed a furniture and second hand goods store run by Charles F. Calvin....
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Real estate appraisal card. 133 E. 1st Street, lots 5 & 6, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1888 and 1890, according to Sanborn maps. Small frame buildings are shown on this parcel on the 1888 map. The present building is shown on the 1890 map, divided into a grocery (131) and a clothing store (133). The upstairs was labeled "rooms." The 1893 Sanborn map indicates that a pawn shop and office had replaced the clothing...
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Real estate appraisal card. 134 E. 1st Street, lot 22, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This building is now 132 E. 1st Street. This parcel was vacant in 1888, according to the Sanborn map. The current building appears on the 1890 map, indicated as a harness shop. A harness shop was also shown here on the 1904 Sanborn map. The 1903-04 city directory indicates that this was the Olin D. Bennett & Son harness shop. The 1905-06 city directory listed two...
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Real estate appraisal card. 139 W. 1st Street, lot 8, block 21, in Salida, Colorado. This is 135 W. 1st Street.
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Real estate appraisal card. 137 E. 1st Street, lot 4, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. This building appears on the 1883 Sanborn map, when it is labeled as "boarding," with a paint shop at the rear. A boarding house is also shown in 1886, and "lodging" is indicated in both sections of the building in 1888. In 1890 and 1893, in addition to the lodging, a barber shop was in the building. The 1903-04 city directory listed the Hesson House, furnished...
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Real estate appraisal card. 138 W. 1st Street, lot 19, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. First Story. The building was constructed between 1888 and 1890 as the west portion of the Union Block. A billiard parlor occupied the storefront during the 1890 to 1898 period. In 1904 and 1909 a second hand goods store was located here. City directories for 1903-04 through 1909 show a second hand store run by Ambrose Ramsey in this location. He carried a full...
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Real estate appraisal card. 139 W. 1st Street, lots 9 & 10, block 21, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected about 1890. The Sanborn fire insurance map for that year indicates the "foundation in for business block" at this site. The 1893 map shows this building. In 1893 and 1898, the west half of this building was vacant and the east portion housed a job printing business. In 1904, a theater occupied the west part and a bowling alley the...
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Real estate appraisal card. 142 W. 1st Street, lot 18, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. According to Sanborn fire insurance maps, the western half of this building (number 142) was constructed between 1898 and 1904. The eastern half (number 140) was built in 1908, according to a list of principal improvements published by the Salida Mail in January 1909. The 1904 Sanborn map shows the western part with a grocery store on the first floor and a one-story...
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Real estate appraisal card. 146 W. 1st Street, lots 15 & 16 and part of lot 14, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. Information for the building on the left, 144 W. 1st: Based on Sanborn fire insurance map evidence, this masonry building was probably erected between 1909 and 1914. A steam laundry occupied an earlier iron clad building at this site and the 1914 Sanborn states that a steam laundry occupied this building at that date. The Troy Laundry...
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Real estate appraisal card. 148 E. 1st Street, lots 23-26, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This lot was shown as vacant on Sanborn maps of 1886 and 1888. The 1890 Sanborn map indicated that the western section of the building was "being built." The building is shown on the 1893 map, with a meat store furthest west, a boot and shoe store in the center, and a millinery on the east end. Center stairs led to the upper story. The 1904 Sanborn map showed...
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Real estate appraisal card. 148 E. 1st Street, lots 23-26, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This lot was shown as vacant on Sanborn maps of 1886 and 1888. The 1890 Sanborn map indicated that the western section of the building was "being built." The building is shown on the 1893 map, with a meat store furthest west, a boot and shoe store in the center, and a millinery on the east end. Center stairs led to the upper story. The 1904 Sanborn map showed...