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Real estate appraisal card. 126 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 1-3, block 3, in Salida, Colorado. This house was previously two separate houses, both of which dated to before 1886. The houses were addressed 126 and 130 N. D Street. The houses were joined together between 1890 and 1904. Joseph Warren Fisher lived here from 1903-4 until at least 1905-06. He worked as a clerk for D.A. Dupar, a mercantile company. Born in Wisconsin in 1844, Mr....
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Real estate appraisal card. 126 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 1-4, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. The current building represents only a small portion of the original building which was erected between 1890 and 1893. The 1890 Sanborn map shows a different, smaller, one-story saloon on this parcel. By 1893, the current building is shown, although it was originally much smaller a much-larger two-story building. The building is shown housing...
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Real estate appraisal card. 127 D Street, lots 14-16, block 24, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1888 and 1890. The building was historically addressed 125-27 and later 127-29 D Street. Several people lived here in 1903: Myrda Gray; Stanley A. Pawl, a clerk for Crews Mercantile Company; Henry H. Schafer, a watchman for D&RG; and Jesse Vetter, a machinist for D&RG. In 1911-12, Frank A. Bates, a driver for the Salida Market...
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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. 127 F Street, part of lots 14-17, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. In 1888, this site was vacant. This building appears on the 1890 Sanborn map, divided into two businesses: a grocery (127) and a clothing and notions store (131). A cobbler shared part of the grocery store space. The same businesses, minus the cobbler, were shown on the Sanborn maps of 1893 and 1898. The 1903 city directory indicates that the grocery store...
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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 F Street, lots A & B, block 21, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected in 1890 by E.W. Hively. On 30 December 1890 the Salida Mail reported: "E.W. Hively has erected a large two story brick building on F Street, between the post-office and Alger-Disman building. This block is 50 by 75 feet. The front is of pressed brick with red sandstone trimmings. On the first floor the front is plate glass with iron pillars."...
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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. 130 E. 2nd Street, lots 21 & 22, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1898 and 1904, according to Sanborn fire insurance maps. The Assessor's 1900 year of construction could be correct. The building was addressed as 132 E. 2nd Street on 1904 through 1945 Sanborn maps. The 1903-04 and 1905-06 city directories indicate that Mrs. Josephine Hill offered furnished rooms in this building. Mrs....
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Real estate appraisal card. 130 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 1-3, block 3, in Salida, Colorado.
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Real estate appraisal card. 130 W. Sackett Avenue, pt. SE 1/4, Sec. 32 T 50N R 9E, in Salida, Colorado. This building was constructed about 1906. The 1909 and 1914 Sanborn maps show this building divided into six units and labeled "female boarding," a Sanborn Map Company euphemism for a place of prostitution. This building is visible on 1926 and late 1930s overview photographs of Salida taken from Tenderfoot Hill. These "cribs" were operated by...
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Real estate appraisal card. 131 E. 2nd Street, lot 5, block 31, in Salida, Colorado. The oldest part of this building was constructed between 1883 and 1886 as a dwelling set back from E. 2nd Street. Sanborn maps for 1886 through 1898 continue to identify it as a dwelling. The northern (front) part of the building was erected between 1898 and 1904. Sanborn maps for 1904 through 1945 show this building addressed as 133 E. 2nd Street. The 1903-04...
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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 Lower E Street, lots 1-5, block 4, in Salida, Colorado.
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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. 133 E. Sackett Avenue, 100' lots 4 & 5, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. A Salida Record article reports that the building was erected in 1902 by J.W. DeWeese. James Watt DeWeese, a native of Ohio, grew up in Ohio and Indiana and apprenticed in the shops of the Lake Shore Railroad as a machinist. In 1887, he came to Salida to work as a machinist for the D&RG Railroad. He worked for the D&RG three years in Salida and three...
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Real estate appraisal card. 133 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 10-13, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built before 1886, based on Sanborn Insurance maps. In 1903, Salida citizen Charles Lines lived here with his wife, Josephine, and two children. Born in Nashville, Illinois, in 1861, he came to Salida in 1890, after living in St. Louis for four years. He was employed by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad during his entire time in Salida,...
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Real estate appraisal card. 134 D Street, lots 23-26, block 23, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1898 and 1902. Henry Wise (1862-1933), an engineer with D&RG lived here beginning in 1903-04 until at least 1906. Charles C. Burkhart lived here in 1911-12 and was employed as a fireman with D&RG. In 1922, David Clarence and Eva W. Kern lived here. David was a railroad carman, and later engaged in an express business. Born in 1867,...