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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. 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. 201 F Street, NELy 25' off lots 11-13, block 31, in Salida, Colorado. This site was where the disastrous fire of January 1888 started in Salida. At that date, Peter Mulvany was completing a three-story brick hotel on the site. A workman dropped a spark into a pile of shavings and within minutes the building was engulfed in flames. The fire soon spread to neighboring buildings, and the heat was so intense that buildings...
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Real estate appraisal card. 230 & 240 F Street, part of lots 21-26, block 32, in Salida, Colorado. 230 F is currently 232 F. The McKenna Building: On 24 January 1902, the Salida Mail announced, "The plans for the splendid new business block to be erected by J.J. McKenna on the lots on upper F street opposite the Record block have been completed by Architect Henry Silf and are now in the hands of the contractors for estimates. The block will be...