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Real estate appraisal card. 142 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 1-4, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. This is currently 140 Lower F Street. The building was erected between 1904 and 1909 and has always been a restaurant. It first housed the Rio Grande Cafe, then the Chili Parlor Restaurant, then the Star Cafe. Mae Prunty bought the place for $1 in 1943 and was subsequently contracted by the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad to serve food...
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Real estate appraisal card. 430 F Street, lot 9 & W. 20' off 8 + 1/2 of 10, block 60, Haskell's Addition, in Salida, Colorado. Although the Chaffee County Assessor reports a construction date of 1900 for this house, documentary evidence indicates it was built between 1882 and 1898. It does not seem to be on the 1882 Bird's-Eye-View Map of Salida, but it is shown on the 1898 Sanborn map. In 1903-04 William H. McCabe, an engineer, lived here. McCabe...
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Real estate appraisal card. 420 F Street, lot 5 with part of 4 & 6, block 60, Haskell's Addition, in Salida, Colorado. The Chaffee County Assessor's 1950 year of construction for this house is incorrect. This house was built in the 1880s and appears on the 1890 Sanborn map. The address is listed In the 1903-04 Salida City Directory, at which point Thomas and Mary Ryan lived here. The Ryans were living on F Street at the time of the 1900 Census,...
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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. 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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A view of Salida from Tenderfoot Mountain. From the Hermit of Arbor Villa Collection.