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Real estate appraisal card. 222 E. 1st Street, lot 19, block 3, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built prior to 1886. The 1927-28 city directory indicates that Hays B. Gibson, a foreman with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, lived here. Gibson was also listed here in 1930-31. By 1951, this was the home of Mrs. F.A. Meinke. Ralph and Wilma Sweet Jived here in 1961. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are...
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Real estate appraisal card. 230 E. 1st Street, lots 21 & 22, block 3, in Salida, Colorado. This dwelling was built between 1893 and 1898 according to Sanborn maps. The assessor's 1914 year of construction is not correct. The house has always been addressed 230 E. 1st St. The 1911-12 city directory lists Eugene A. Hatch at this address. He was an engineer for the D&RG Railroad. Hatch had previously been listed next door at 224 E. St. In 1922-23...
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Real estate appraisal card. 431 E. 1st Street, lots 4-5, block 25, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built in 1904. In 1905-06, the city directory listed the Hamm family at this address. Mrs. Elizabeth W "Binnie" Hamm (b.1845), a widow from Kentucky, lived here with her daughters Elsie E., Margaret M., and Annie R. Hamm. Annie was a cashier at the Golden Rule department store in 1906. The Hamms were still living here in 1910, although Elsie...
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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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 433 E. 1st Street, lots 1-3, block 25, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1895 and 1902. The 1903-04 city directory indicated that this was a boarding house operated by Maggie Pennington. Mrs. Pennington (b.1863) continued to run the boarding house until at least 1911-12. Harry L. Pennington, a student, and Charles Symes, a machinist for Denver & Rio Grande lived here in 1903. In 1906, the following...
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Real estate appraisal card. 315 E. 1st Street, lots 9 & 10, block 24, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built between 1882 and 1888. In 1903, Melvin J. and Margaret J. Ruland occupied this house. They had two sons, Elmer (14) and Myron J (20). Mr. Ruland was born in 1856 in New York. Mrs. Ruland was born in 1864 in Iowa. Mr. Ruland was employed as an engineer for the Denver & Rio Grande, until his death at the age of 46, on November 1, 1903....
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Real estate appraisal card. 233 E. 1st Street, lots 4-5, block 23, in Salida, Colorado. The 1903-04 city directory indicated that Ada Jane McNichol (b. 1874) lived here and offered furnished rooms for rent in this building. Her family included her husband Alexander McNichol, an engineer with the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad, and their two daughters. A nurse, Ella Nelson, roomed with them in 1903. Originally from Pennsylvania, Mrs. McNichol died...
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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,...