A Digital Walking Tour of Salida

In the google map below, zoom in and click on a red pinpoint to view a historic image of a Salida building. Many of the photos contain detailed historical information from the Salida Historic Buildings Survey, courtesy the City of Salida and Front Range Research Associates. This Tour includes images from the Salida Library's Digital Collections.

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101 F Street
Real estate appraisal card. 101 F Street, part of lots 10-13, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. In 1886, S.B. Westerfield (a mayor of Salida) erected this building on the site previously occupied by W.W. Roller's real estate agency. In August, the Salida Weekly Mail reported: 'The building will be two stories high and contain five offices on the second floor. The front glass will be plate, seven feet high, and an iron front will be used. The main entrance is on the corner by very wide doors between iron posts, Entrance to the stairway is on First street opposite E.W. Hively's new building. Upstairs a corridor runs the entire length of the building. We understand that the ground floor is spoken for by A.M. Alger, the druggist, who will have a room fine enough for a city.' Westerfield had arrived in the city in 1882, served as mayor in 1884, and had invested extensively in real estate in Salida and had erected several buildings. In December 1886, Alger moved his stock of drugs to the new building. The Mail reported: 'Mr. Alger now has a store that would rank first class in any city in the country. New cases of solid cherry adorn the sides and present an imposing array of bottles and medicines ... The cases and shelving together with other improvements have cost Mr. Alger in the region of $1,000. The building's cost was said to be $7,000. The Continental Divide Bank, which had been established in 1885 by L.W. and D.H. Craig, was located in the south storefront. The Craigs came to Salida in 1881 and operated a dry goods business. They became the sole proprietors of the private bank, the Continental Divided Bank. In 1889, they organized the First National Bank of Salida, opening up for operation in January 1890.This bank later became the Thatcher Bank, and then the Pueblo Bank & Trust. A drawing of the building was printed in the Salida News in 1889 and showed Alger's Drugstore and the Continental Divide Bank in the first story, with the names R.K. Hagen and George P. Jones displayed in the upper story. The building was identified as the Craig-McGovern Block. George McGovern was a pioneer of the state and had lived in Salida since 1883. He had conducted a successful grocery, served on the board of trustees, was elected mayor, helped organize the Salida Opera House Association, was superintendent of the Salida Electric Light Company, and served as police magistrate. In 1900, the Salida Semi-Weekly Mail reported that the building was owned by George McGovern and located 'on one of the principal business corners in the city. It is a modern and highly substantial structure and an ornament to the city of Salida.' By 1903, Theodore C. Bode, druggist, was operating in the space formerly occupied by Alger, While Joe P. Williams, grocer, occupied the other storefront. Abraham J. Overholt, a physician and surgeon specializing in genito-urinary diseases was also listed in this building. In the 1905 city directory, the building was identified as the McGovern Block, and businesses included Theodore C. Bode ('It's right if put up by Bode, the Druggist'), Lyman Hensley's real estate and insurance office, and J.S. Dingman, stock broker. Waggener's Pharmacy operated in this building for 84 years, from 1911 to 1995. By 1927, the Salida Candy Company, operated by William Pates, and James Anos, occupied the other store front. The building retains the original wood cases built by A.M. Alger in 1886. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
101 Lower F Street
Real estate appraisal card. 101 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 14-16, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. On December 30, 1890, the Salida Mail observed, 'No building has added more to the appearance of the town than the one constructed by N.R. Twitchell on his property at the corner of F and 1st Streets. Some unsightly one-story wooden holdings occupied this corner until this spring when they were swept out by fire. The fire proved to be a blessing to the town and also to the owner of the property for the building that now occupies that site is an ornament to the town and a source of greater profit to the owner than the poor building which formerly occupied this valuable ground ... This property is worth at least $16,000. The erection of this building gave an impetus to building in this town; it set the ball to rolling. It seemed to establish confidence among property owners and as a result we see fine structures going up on every side. D. Chenowith is the architect and builder of this fine block.' N.R. Twitchell was a pioneer real estate and insurance agent in Salida, whose name appears in the 1887-1888 State Business Directory. Twitchell represented the Salida Land Company. The Twitchell Building, erected in 1890, is significant for its influence on the growth and development of downtown Salida, having been one of the most substantial buildings erected in the downtown after the fires of 1888 and 1890. The building is notable for having housed a saloon in its beveled corner storefront until Prohibition, and later a longtime grocery, as well as several barber firms. The building is associated with N.B. Twitchell, a pioneer Salida real estate and insurance agent, who erected the building, and is representative of the work of D. Chenowith, architect. The building's architectures is representative of the larger brick business blocks erected in Salida during the period after the fire of 1888, and is notable for its segmented arched second story windows with hood molds, beveled corner, and storefronts with serpentine metal columns and paneled kickplates. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
103 Lower D Street
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. He was born in Indiana in 1865. His son, Orrin Goodenough (b.1892), a high school student also lived here. David's wife, Elizabeth, probably lived here in 1911-12, but she was not listed in the city directory. Elizabeth was born in Pennsylvania in 1865. Both of her parents were from Scotland. By 1920, David and his wife Elizabeth A. Goodenough, were living at 114 D Street. Orrin continued to live with his parents, working as a machine operator at a theatre. He married a woman named Birdie in 1925 and they lived on G Street in 1930. David Goodenough died in 1946. Norval A. and Genevieve Kurth lived here in 1922. Norval worked as a local representative for Metropolitan Life Insurance Company of New York, which was based out of this address. Mrs. Alma H. Osborn lived here alone in 1931. Her husband, James L. Osborn was dead. Alma was born in Iowa in 1873. In 1951, this was the residence of owners James D. and Lucille C. Graham. Mr. Graham was an engineer with the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. The Grahams still owned the house in 1965, and Mr. Graham was still an engineer. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
105 F Street
Real estate appraisal card. 105 F Street, part of lots 11-13, block 22 in Salida, Colorado. Currently these buildings are 101 and 107 F Street.
107 Lower D Street
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 and entered the Lake Shore Railroad shops, serving as an apprentice machinist. He was steadily promoted until he was a regular draughtsman in the mechanical engineering department, which employed 800 men. For two years he worked on drawings for locomotive construction. In 1887, he moved to Salida as a machinist and worked in the local railroad shops. He was sent to Gunnison as round house foreman, working there for three years. He then resigned and went East to study freehand drawing at the Cincinnati Art Academy. From there he traveled to California "in search of a location." In 1894, he returned to Salida and established a building and loan business. In the same year, he formed a real estate and insurance partnership with W.S. O'Brien. The partners bought out the agencies of D.H. Craig and L.P. Rudolph. In 1898. Mr. DeWeese bought out Mr. O'Brien. He also erected another terrace in the 100 block of East Sackett. In addition to his real estate and insurance business, Mr. DeWeese was also involved with the Salida Building & Loan association and a member of the school board for District No. 7. The terrace type multi-family residential building was very popular in Salida during the early twentieth century. In 1904, the Salida Record noted: "Salida has achieved considerable fame for its 'terraces' or apartment houses. A number of this class of buildings ornament the residence portions of the city, and year by year their number is being added to, attesting to their popularity as places of residence." The building attracted a variety of families, predominantly those of railroad workers during the early twentieth century. Other occupations of residents of the building during the first half of the century included the proprietor of a billiard hall, a driver, a waiter, a miner, and a saloon worker. An example of these residents was William T. Phibbs, who lived in 107 N. D Street during the 1920s and until his death in 1932. He was born in 1867 in Coldwater, Michigan, where he lived until age nineteen. He then moved to California, where he learned cigar making before moving to Denver, Aspen, and then Salida. His first wife died in Salida in 1913, and he married Laura Powell in Denver in 1915. The couple lived in Salida after their marriage. Mr. Phibbs was a partner in the Dubbs & Phibbs Billiard Hall and later went into business with E.E. Hutchinson, owner of the Best Laundry. The business operated in the same location for thirty-six years. The Salida Mail reported that Mr. Phibbs's "many acts of charity and kindness were unknown except to his closest friends." He passed away on 28 June 1932 and was buried in Salida. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
108 Lower F Street
Real estate appraisal card. 108 Lower (or North) F Street, lots 24-26, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. This building appears to have been erected between the fire of March 1886 and the time of the Sanborn map in September 1886. The previous building on the site was destroyed in the fire of March 1886 (as verified by a historic photograph), but this building appears on the September 1886 Sanborn map. The 1886 Sanborn map indicates the building housed a jewelry store, as it did on the 1888 and 1890 maps. The 1887-88 Colorado Business Directory listed two jewelry stores in Salida, that of L.F. Cornwell and that of William Carpenter (no specific addresses were provided in the directory). Both men were cited in the Salida News: Holiday Edition, 1889. William Carpenter had been a jeweler for more than 40 years in 1889: "Salida has many handsome stores, among the most prominent of which is Mr. Wm. Carpenter's jewelry establishment. Mr. Carpenter carries a magnificent stock of rich jewelry, diamonds, watches, clocks, and silverware, which he sells at exceptionally reasonable prices." On the other hand, L.F. Cornwell was described as "the proprietor of Salida's jewelry palace, one of the handsomest stores in Colorado...Fine repairing is a specialty. He is a licensed watchmaker to the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad Company." In 1893, the building was indicated as vacant. By 1898, a restaurant was operating here. The 1903-04 city directory listed the Donmyer & Haley Restaurant, operated by William J. Donmyer and Joseph E. Haley, who also had a restaurant at 214 Lower F. By 1905, this had become the Golden Gate Restaurant, operated by John E. Haley and Lawrence J. Taliaferro. The restaurant advertised that it was open day and night. The Golden Gate Restaurant was also listed here in 1909. The 1914 Sanborn map also showed a restaurant in the building. By 1922, the Commercial Cafe was listed here. A.J. Pope was proprietor of the restaurant, which provided "First Class Meals at Reasonable Prices," and was open all night. The cafe was still listed at this address in 1927-28. In October 1927, the "Salida Mail" reported, "The Commercial Cafe at 106 Lower F street is one of the up-to-the-minute restaurants that caters to a big trade and that is an especial favorite with tourists and traveling men." The restaurant was then owned and operated by Mrs. Minnie Sylstra and her son, Harry Conley. Mrs. Sylstra had been operating at this location for 12 years, while the restaurant had been in business for more than 20. A restaurant was still shown on the 1945 Sanborn map. In 1951, the Atomic Bar and Cafe (Manuels LeVine, owner) was here. The 1981 survey form indicated that the building housed Dooley's Bar. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
109 Lower F Street
Real estate appraisal card. 109 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 14-16, block 4 in Salida, Colorado. Although this building (109) and the one to the south (107) currently house one business, they were erected as separate buildings. This building was erected between 1888 and 1890. The building was indicated as a meat store with a separate kettle building at the rear in 1890. For many years, it also housed clothing and tailoring firms. 107 Lower F was erected between 1890 and 1893, housed an early saloon, a confectionery, and a drugstore over the years. Although the first story of the building has been altered, it retains its ornate cornice, segmented arched windows of the second story, and one fluted column. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
110 Lower D Street
Real estate appraisal card. 110 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 24-26, block 3, in Salida, Colorado. The Salida Mail of January 1, 1889 reported that H.M. Moulder had built a "four room, one-story brick residence on D street, between First and Front at a cost of $1,500 in the previous year. Henry M. Moulder lived here with his wife, Mary. The Moulders were still living here in the 1900s. Henry worked as a hostler for D&RG. He was born in New York in 1848 and his wife was born in Illinois in 1859. In 1900, the Moulders had two boarders: Susan C. Reed, a 49- year-old seamstress, and a teamster named Chapman. The Moulders continued to live here in 1906, with their daughter Eva (b.1887 in Colorado). The Moulders do not appear to be listed in the 1910 US Census in Salida. By 1911-12, Harry Stevens, a laborer lived here with his wife Nellie M. Harry Stevens was born in 1874 in Ohio. Nellie Stevens was born in Colorado in 1881. The 1920 US Census indicated that this was the rented house of the Waller family: Joseph (41), a car repairer with the railroad; Alma (13), his daughter; Charles (5), his son; Mary Shrove (23), a servant; and Joseph Shrove (23), a boarder who worked as a laborer. Walter J. and his wife Clara M. Long lived here in 1922. Gladys Long also lived here with them. No occupation was listed for the Longs. In 1931, William M. and Doris Jackson lived here. William Jackson was a salesman at Coe Branch Furniture Company. William was born in Scotland in 1898 and became a naturalized citizen in 1914. Doris was born in Colorado in 1905. They had one daughter, Elizabeth B. Jackson. Occupants of the house in 1951 included: Mrs. Elsie M. Cantril (widow of Eugene); Katie Ingram (widow of James); and Milton E. and Marjorie Smith. Mr. Smith was a watchmaker and jeweler with Alexanders, Inc. The 1965 city directory indicated that Mrs. Lula M. Thompson (widow of A.C.) was the owner of this house, and Mrs. Katie Hunt and Mrs. Anne Evans also lived here. The Assessor's appraisal card also lists George E. Everett as an owner of this house (date not given). He was born in the Salida area and married Wilmoth McFarland in 1932. Mr. Everett was a local cattle rancher who was involved in the Southeast Water Conservancy Board. He died in a plane crash while on business for the Board in 1977. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
111 Lower F Street
Real estate appraisal card. 111 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 14-16, block 4 in Salida, Colorado.
112 E. 1st Street
Real estate appraisal card. 112 E. 1st Street, lot 17, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected in 1886, when it was indicated as "not complete" on the Sanborn map. The lot on which the building stands had previously held a hose house. In 1886 the building was divided into a furniture store and a grocery. The building, originally known as the Hively-Mandeville Block, was erected by Edwin H. Hively. Edwin W. Hively was an influential businessman and civic leader of Salida. Hively was born in Springfield, Ohio, in 1854. In 1879 he moved to Colorado, settling first at Monarch, where he mined and had a grocery business. He worked in a hardware store in Canon City and then moved to Salida in 1882 and was partner in another hardware store, Hively, Young & Co. Hively erected two brick business buildings in Salida, this one and another known as the Hively Block, where he had an office. He operated a limestone business and then a real estate and insurance business. Hively was active in promoting the construction of an opera house, was involved in the erection of the St. Clair Hotel, and was a stockholder in the creamery. He also served as town treasurer. He was married to Emma Beeler of San Antonio, Texas, and they had two children. The Hivelys left Salida after the death of their daughter, Camille, and Edwin Hively died in California in 1920. He had sold this building to J.W. DeWeese in 1918. The 1888 Sanborn map indicated that the building housed a furniture and undertaker business and a harness business. An 1889 drawing of the building indicates that Haight & Churcher, furniture and undertaking were located here. The firm was engaged in building and contracting in Salida prior to 1887, and "did most of the heavy contracting and building" in the early days of the city. In 1887 they went into the furniture, carpet, and undertaking business. Haight had come to Cleora in 1878 and erected the first building at the settlement three miles below the future site of Salida. Frank B. Churcher moved to Cleora a year later. In 1900, the Salida Semi-Weekly Mail reported that the firm of Haight & Churcher was "one of the strongest in this part of the state. They carry a stock of furniture and carpets valued at over $20,000 and also own considerable improved real estate. Besides, they are financially interested in several outside business propositions." By 1903, the business had become Churcher & Johnson, operated by Frank B. Churcher and Oscar L. Johnson. The 1890 Sanborn map still showed the furniture and harness shops in the building. By 1893, the harness shop had been replaced by a printing business. A historic photograph of the building shows that the printer was the Salida News Printing Co. The News, a Democratic paper, was founded in 1883. In 1888, the newspaper changed from daily to semi-weekly. The News specialized in artistic job printing, from visiting cards to circus posters. By 1898, the printer had been replaced by a second-hand shop. In 1904, a steam laundry (the Best Steam Laundry, David B. Lee, proprietor) was operating here, in addition to the furniture and undertaking business. The laundry was electrified and modern, with an electric collar machine, a lace curtain stretcher, and washers. The laundry was the oldest in the Salida area. W.H. Flannery was the proprietor. The business was still operating in 1927 (at 124 E. 1st). The upstairs of the building (which was then known as the Conquest Block), contained professional offices in 1904. Dr. G. Rin Hara, a dentist, had offices here in 1903. Dr. Hara was a native of Tokyo, Japan. He moved to the United States in 1892 and graduated from the University of California. He moved to Denver in 1897, where he received his degree in dentistry. In 1898 he established a practice in Salida. In 1909, Churcher & Johnson were still operating here, and a second-hand shop operated by C.F. Foote was in the second storefront. The same types of businesses were shown on the 1914 Sanborn map. In 1922, the city directory listed Lorton-Wenz & Baham, furniture dealers and undertakers, in this building. The firm consisted of George Lorton, J.F. Wenz, and D.D. Boham. Mr. Lorton also served as Mayor of Salida. By 1927-28, the firm had become Travers & Boham. The 1930-31 city directory listed the Travers Co. (furniture and undertaker) at this address. Guy V. Travers was the proprietor. In 1951 the city directory listed Hill Brothers, novelties, at this address, operated by Myron E. Hill. By 1961, Hartman's Furniture & Antiques was listed here (Ray & Fern Hartman, partners). Salida Automotive (auto parts) operated by Earl and Robert Palermo was also located here. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
113 E. 1st Street
Real estate appraisal card. 113 E. 1st Street, part of lots 9 & 10, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected by Salida's IOOF Lodge No. 54 as its meeting hall and lodge rooms. The June 17, 1887 Salida Weekly Mail reported, "Yesterday was a proud time for every Odd Fellow in the Arkansas Valley, in that it saw the corner-stone laid for the new temple to be devoted to use of the three-link order. The box was then made ready, and S.B. Westerfield, grand secretary, read the following list of articles to be preserved: 'Proceedings and by-laws of the Grand Lodge; constitution and by-laws Salida Lodge No. 54; copy of the Mail and the News; names of grand and subordinate lodge officers; names of 102 members; various tokens and relics; copy of the Holy Bible. The new temple will be 30 X 80 feet, of brick, with cut stone trimmings, two stories in height. The first floor will be used for stores and the second divided into reception rooms, hail, banquet room and library for the use of the lodge. City Water will be carried throughout the entire building." The Independent Order of Odd Fellows is one of the largest and oldest fraternal organizations in America. The order was founded in England during the eighteenth century. In 1819, the American Odd Fellowship was founded as the Washington Lodge #1 in Baltimore. The original goals of the group were to visit the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead, and educate the orphaned. The three links of the Odd Fellows' symbol stand for friendship, love, and truth. Early Salida had a large group of secret and benevolent societies, of which the Odd Fellows were estimated to be the largest by 1889. In that year, the group had about seventy-five members. One of their best-known features was the promotion of "team work." Their hall was called "a very fine and imposing structure." The 1888 Sanborn map indicated that a crockery store occupied the first story of the building. By 1890, a jewelry and dry goods business operated here. The 1893 Sanborn map showed the post office in the first story. By 1898 a grocery store was located in the storefront. The 1903-04 city directory listed Frank A Dupar, grocery, at this address. Dupar was also proprietor of the Salida Dry Goods Company and vice president of Salida State Bank. By 1905-06, the first floor was occupied by the Salida Decorating Company (Frank Flatz and Robert Pherson) and Michael J . Gannon, merchant tailor ("A full line of imported and domestic goods always on hand.") The 1909 directory indicated that the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen was also using the hall. The group had previously met at the Fraternity Hall. By 1911-12, the city directory listed J.W. Randol, grocer, at this address. Randol had previously operated at 129-31 E. 1st. The firm had been started by J.D. Randol, a pioneer grocer, who settled in the Salida area in 1879 and was considered "among those men who helped to build here on such a solid foundation for posterity." He started the grocery store in 1901. His son, J.W. Randol took over the business, and was also considered a respected citizen and booster of Salida. In 1927, the store, still at this location, offered "all manner of staple and fancy groceries, fruits and vegetables in season, confections, bakery goods and kindred lines are carried. The stocks are large from which to choose, the prices are ever fair and the service is the best." The 1945 Sanborn map showed the USO club rooms on the first story. By 1951, Howard's Shoe Shop operated by Howard Cauiness was located here. The building continues to be the home of Salida's Odd Fellows. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
113 E. Sackett Avenue
Real estate appraisal card. 113 Sackett Avenue, lots 9 & 10, block 4 in Salida, Colorado. Based on Sanborn fire insurance map evidence, this building was constructed between 1890 and 1893. The building was addressed as 113 E. Front Street (later 113 E. Sackett Avenue). A saloon is shown as the building's occupant on 1893 through 1909 Sanborn maps. A 1902 article discussing the construction of a two-unit house to the east, referred to this structure as the "Kinney building." The 1903-04 city directory lists a saloon at this address operated by Frank Martin. By 1905-06, the business was identified as the D&RG Saloon, with Frank Martin as the proprietor. Mr. Martin was the sole agent for Puritan rye whiskey. The D&RG Saloon was still in the building in 1909. A painted wall sign for the saloon is still present on the west wall of the building and reads "D&RG Saloon-Wines, Liquors-Cigars, Schooners, 5 cents." The second floor of the building held furnished rooms. Elizabeth Martin ran this side of the operation in 1905-06 and 1909. In 1911-12, Mrs. Elizabeth Kenney operated the D&RG Rooming House. In 1914, the building housed a Chinese laundry. In 1922-23, Frank Martin was listed as the proprietor of the Palace Laundry at this address. A display advertisement in the city directory explained that "we do wet wash, rough dry, and finished laundry work of all kinds. Parcel post-quick delivery." The business probably took its name from the Palace Hotel a short distance to the north. An unidentified store was located in the building according to 1929 and 1945 Sanborn fire insurance maps. The address does not appear in the 1951 city directory. In the 1960s, the evangelist Brother Ben Maestas had his church in this building.

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