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Real estate appraisal card. 414 E. 2nd Street, lots 19-20, block 25, in Salida, Colorado. This house was erected in 1924 or 1927 according to Chaffee County Assessor records. Phillip and Eleanore M. Gallo were owners of this house in 1930, based on the US Census of that year and an old Assessor's appraisal card. They were married in 1918 and both were born in 1891. A Colorado native, Phillip (b.1891) owned a shoe repair shop at 140 E. 1st. The...
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Real estate appraisal card, 304 E. 2nd Street, lots 14-16, block 24, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built before 1886, based on a Sanborn map of that date. Ernest M., Harry, and Sidney De Late lived at this house in 1903-04. They all worked for Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Ernest was a machinist. Sidney was a switchman and the head of the household. Harry was an apprentice. Harry De Late continued to live here in 1906, when he was...
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Real estate appraisal card. 346 E. 1st Street, lots 25-26, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1895 and 1902. George and Mrs. Mary Ott lived here at the time of the 1903-04 city directory. Born in Germany in 1855, Mr. Ott emigrated to the U.S. in 1879. He was a naturalized citizen by 1900 and worked as a shoemaker. Mrs. Ott was born in 1865 in Illinois. The Otts had four daughters by 1900: Graye A. (17), Luella (14), Geneva...
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Real estate appraisal card. 415 E. 1st Street, lots 8-10, block 25, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1888 and 1895. The 1903-04 city directory indicated that the family of Samuel G. Vandenburg lived here. Samuel Vandenburg, born about 1855 in Ohio, worked as a railroad conductor. His wife, Emma, was born about 1868 in Illinois. Their son, Harry, was born about 1891 in Colorado. Also living with the family was a female boarder...
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Real estate appraisal card. 415 E. 2nd Street, lots 9-10, block 28, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1888 and about 1895. The 1903-04 City Directory listed Bernard "Ben" Graf, a conductor, living here with his family. At the time of the 1905-06 City Directory, the Grafs were living on F Street, and a barber, M. Lawrence Mueller, had moved in to this house. Ada Daniels, an operator at Colorado Telephone Co., and Lillian Daniels...
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Real estate appraisal card. 117 W. Sackett Ave., lots % & 6, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. This building is not shown on the 1888 Sanborn map, but does appear on the 1890 map, when it is indicated as a Chinese laundry and female boarding on the second story, connected by a passage on the first story to a female boarding house or bordello at 113 W. Sackett Ave. This block of West Sackett Avenue was Salida's Red Light district, and contained several...
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Real estate appraisal card. 227 E. 1st Street, block 23, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1886 and 1888. The 1903-04 city directory listed four persons living at this address. Two women living here were: Mrs. Helen Hinds, for whom no occupation was listed, and Mrs. Minnie E. Hull, an owner of Hull & Wise, a newsstand and cigar store. Also living here were Louis H. Ashenfelter, a helper for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, ...
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Real estate appraisal card. 116 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 24-26, block 3, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built before 1886. The 1911-12 city directory indicated Albert J. Brough lived here. In 1922, Mrs. Minnie M. Clemans lived here. Also living here in 1922 was Jack A. and Laura Pierce. Mr. Pierce was employed as a clerk. Frank and Dorothy Glover lived here in 1930. Frank Glover, born in Colorado in 1905, worked as a machinist for...
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Real estate appraisal card. 444 E. 2nd Street, lots 23-24, block 25, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1888 and 1895. In 1903-04 prominent Salida citizen Oscar L. Johnson lived here. Oscar Johnson was born in 1855 in Sweden, and came to this country in 1882. He was a naturalized citizen by 1910. He was a highly skilled machinist for the railroad for many years after arriving in Salida. He then became an owner of Churcher & Johnson,...
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Real estate appraisal card. 211 W. 1st Street, Imp. on R.R. right of way, block 20, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected about 1902 as the plant of the Salida Bottling Company; the tracks of the Gunnison branch of the D&RG Railroad lay immediately west of the building. The building does not appear on the 1898 Sanborn map but ls shown on the 1904 edition. The building is shown on a 1902 overview photograph of the city and a close up...
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Real estate appraisal card. 234 E. 2nd Street, lots 21 & 22, block 23, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1898 and 1904. The city directory of 1905-06, when John G., Blossom G., and Mamie Nash lived here. Mr. Nash was born in 1845 in Ireland and was a laborer for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. He was a member of the Ancient Order of United Workmen for 25 years. He died of pneumonia in April 1915, after residing in Salida for...
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Real estate appraisal card. 340 E. 1st Street, lots 23-24, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built about 1903-04. The 1911-12 city directory indicated that Frank W. and George F. Wilkins, both teamsters, lived here. Eugene G. Luhorn (b.1889), a helper for Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and his wife Anna M. (b.1887) also lived here. Eugene was born in Texas, although his father was from New Hampshire and his mother was from Ireland. Anna's...
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Real estate appraisal card. 103 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 14-17, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1893 and 1895. In 1903-04, George McElvain, a Denver & Rio Grande Railroad engineer, lived here with Edward R. Naylor. Mr. Naylor continued to live here alone in 1905-06. No occupation was listed for Mr. Naylor in the city directories. By 1911-12, David E. Goodenough, a conductor for Denver & Rio Grande, lived here....
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Real estate appraisal card. 318 & 320 E. 1st Street, lots 18-20, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. The eastern portion of this building (320 E. First Street) dates to before 1892, while the western setback section (318 E. First Street) was built between 1909 and 1911. Charles F. and Belle Foote were listed at this address in the 1903-04 city directory. The couple apparently rented out rooms in the house, for four railroad conductors, an engineer, and...
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Real estate appraisal card. 313 E. Sackett Avenue, part of lots 10 & 11, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1882 and 1886. William B. Warnick, a brakeman for Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, lived at this house in 1911-12. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1881. His wife Elizabeth was born in Colorado in 1884. They were married in 1901 and had four children together: Ethel V., Charles R., Albert J., and Thelma N. Warnick. The...
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Real estate appraisal card. 331 E. 1st Street, lots 4-5, block 24, in Salida, Colorado. John H. "Old Jack" Julien, a railroad engineer, and his wife Amber, built this home in 1888, the year after they were married. This address is listed in the first available Salida City Directory of 1903-04. Mr. Julien was born on November 27, 1861 on a farm in Delphi, Indiana, to Ellis and Martha Julien. He decided to go west when he turned 18, and got a job...
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Real estate appraisal card. 329 E. 2nd Street, lot 6, block 29, in Salida, Colorado. This duplex house was built between 1898 and 1902. Information about #329: In 1903, Salida pioneers Frederick L. and Silvie B. Coombs lived at this house. Frederick was a fireman for the Rio Grande Railroad for 56 years, before retiring in 1944. He was born in Chicago on March 30, 1873, coming to Salida with his parents (Mr. and Mrs. Harry Coombs) in 1890....
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Real estate appraisal card. 232 D Street, lot 8, block 30, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built in 1902 according to Chaffee County Assessor records. William Burless, a clerk at J.M. King lived here in 1903. In 1906, William M. Frye lived at this house. He was a manager for the Van Noy RR News Co at the D&RG Depot. The 1920 US Census indicated that this was the residence of Treffle and Hazel Beauregard. Mr. Beauregard was a salesman at...
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Real estate appraisal card. 140 D Street, lots 23-26, block 23, in Salida, Colorado. Although this is a duplex residence, the address of this building was given as 140 D Street in city directories. The 1903-04 city directory indicates that 140 D Street was the residence of Charles D. Redeker, proprietor of The Old Man's Place, which served wines, liquors, and cigars and was located on East First Street. He was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1831. After...
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Real estate appraisal card. 107 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 14-17, block 2, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1898 and 1903. The building was known as the DeWeese Terrace. The following information is excerpted from the Salida Mail, 5 June 1900: James Watt DeWeese was born on a farm in Miami County, Ohio. He lived in Ohio until moving to Elkhart, Indiana, at age fourteen. There he completed a "rather brief' education...