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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- 120 E Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 124 E Street, lots 1-3, block 22, in Salida, Colorado.
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- 120 E. 2nd Street
- Real estate appraisal card. Approximately 120 E. 2nd Street, lots 18-19, block 22, in Salida, Colorado. This building is no longer standing.
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- 120 W. 1st Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 120 W. 1st Street, lot 23, block 5, in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1926 and 1929. The parcel is vacant in a 1926 photograph of Salida taken from Tenderfoot Mountain, while this building appears on the 1929 Sanborn fire insurance map. The building is addressed as 122 A and B on the 1929 map and as 120 and 124 on the 1945 map. The 1927-28 city directory showed the restaurant of Mrs. N.E. Doering at 120 W. 1st Street and Alf Nicastro's shoe repair shop at 124. By 1930-31, Mrs. Jackie Gardner's restaurant was housed in 120, while the Sanitary Barber Shop was at 124. Thomas S. and Paul P. Miller were proprietors of the barber shop. The Zingone Tailor Shop (Charles Zingone, tailor and owner) was listed at 120 in 1951. Number 124 was not listed. Robert Nevens, an attorney, had his office in number 120 in 1961. Number 124 housed the Williams Barber Shop, Paul P. Williams, owner. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 121 E. 2nd Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 121 E. 2nd Street, lot 8 & part of 9, block 31, in Salida, Colorado. A bake house (set back from the street) is the only structure shown on this parcel on the 1893 Sanborn fire insurance map. The front part of this building was erected in front of and attached to the bake house at the street line between 1893 and 1898. The 1898 Sanborn identifies the building as a grocery store. By 1904, the building housed a paint and wallpaper store with a tin shop in the rear and a paint shop in a separate building to the rear. The 1905-06 city directory lists the People's Paint and Wall Paper Company at 121-23 E. 2nd Street. James L. Pearce and John F. Erdlen were the proprietors. William G. Morris provided tin and sheet iron work. The shop carried wallpaper, moldings, oils, varnishes, paints, and glass, and offered sign writing, paper hanging, painting, and decorating. The paint and wall paper store of Robert N. Pherson was listed here in the 1911-12 city directory. A paint and wallpaper store was still located here according to the 1914 Sanborn map. By 1922-23, the plumbing and heating shop of Eugene W. Tucker was housed in the building. He was listed here in the 1930-31 city directory and Lhe building was identified as a tin and plumbing shop on the 1945 Sanborn fire insurance map. The 1951 and 1961 city directories show Salida Plumbing and Appliance Company here; Edward H. Mahe was its president. This building was apparently part of the Salida Mountain Mail office at the time the Salida Downtown Historic District nomination was prepared in 1983. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 121 Lower F Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 121 Lower F Street, part of lots 14-16, block 4 in Salida, Colorado. This building was erected between 1888 and 1890. Through the years it housed J.J. Caulfield's Saloon, then another saloon, Mullin's Place. By 1914, a cobbler was conducting business here, then the Champion Shoe Shop. Later it became a tailoring and dry cleaning shop. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 122 Lower D Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 122 Lower (or North) D Street, lots 24-26, block, in Salida, Colorado. This house was built before 1886 based on Sanborn Insurance maps. In 1903, Mrs. Grace Lightner (widow of Harry), lived here and rented rooms to three men who worked for the railroad: John H. Daniels, a switchman; Thomas Foley, a brakeman; and George M. Gerhart, an engineer. Mr. Gerhart was born in Kansas in 1872. Mrs. Lightner continued to rent rooms here in 1906. George Gerhart continued to live here, still working as an engineer. Peter Coons, a laborer and William Smith, a fireman also lived here in 1906. By 1910, Clarence M. Walbridge, a conductor for D&RG, lived here with his wife Iverna E. Walbridge. Clarence was born in Kansas in 1881. lverna was born in Colorado in 1880. Clarence's daughter from a previous marriage, Ruth Meany (b.1899), lived here as well. By 1930, Clarence was remarried to a woman named Josephine, who was born in Kansas in 1888 and worked at a beauty shop. Also living with Clarence and Iverna Walbridge in 1910, was George Gerhart who had lived here since 1903. A couple, William H. and Kathrin Lambert, also roomed here. Mr. Lambert worked as a brakeman with D&RG. The parents of Mr. and Mrs. Lambert were all born in Germany. William was born in Pennsylvania in 1881 and Kathrin was born in Ohio in 1884. William C. and Imogene Carl lived here by 1922. William Charles Carl (b.1881) worked as an engineer. Born in Landisburg, Pennsylvania, he came to Salida in 1906, at the age of twenty-two, and began immediately working for the railroad. He worked first as a fireman and later as an engineer. He married Imogene Brough in Denver in 1917. William died in October 1935 during a hunting trip. He was described as "a highly respected citizen of the community" and "a friend to all employed on the railroad." Imogene died in April 1951, at the age of 79. In 1931, John and Jessie M. Marmet lived here. John Marmet worked as a conductor for D&RGW. They were both born in Nebraska, John in 1876 and Jesse in 1883. The 1965 city directory indicated that Ivan L. and Audrey O. Wickers owned this house and lived here. Mr. Wickers was a brakeman for the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 122 Lower F Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 122 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 24-26, block 5 in Salida, Colorado. This building is one of the oldest in the commercial district and was one of the first brick buildings in the district. Erected by Elias H. Webb and Edward W. Corbin, it housed the Webb & Corbin Grocery Store in 1883. The store had previously been housed in a frame building on the same site. Webb & Corbin was one of the original businesses in Salida, beginning operation in 1880. By 1881, the firm had branches at Malta, Bonanza, and Sargents. The building was one of two on this block which survived the fire of 1886. Edward Corbin was one of the most prominent of Salida's pioneer citizens. Born in 1855, he moved to Colorado from Illinois in 1879 and established a mercantile at Cleora. After moving to Salida he became on of its most active businessmen and civic leaders. Corbin served as mayor of the city, partner in a successful grocery firm, and investor in the Salida Opera House, of which he was the first manager. Following the fire of 1886, he helped created a fire code for the downtown district. In the 1880s, he formed a partnership with William E. Robertson and W.W. Roller to build the still-standing, but greatly altered, Central Block on F Street. When Corbin suffered an untimely death at the age of 34 (in 1889) following a tooth extraction, the Salida Mail wrote: 'Through the demise of Mr. Corbin, Salida has lost one of its best and most enterprising citizens, who had no superior in business circles in this city.' Elias H. Webb was also prominent in early day Salida as an incorporator of the Salida & South Platte Toll Road Co., a member of the first fire company, and organizer of the first school. He later moved to Denver, Colorado, and served as Arapahoe County Sheriff. Webb died in 1898 at the age of 54. By 1898, this building became a saloon run by Joseph Hafner, who according to the Salida Mail: '...had one of the finest refreshment resorts in the city. Joe carries everything usually found in a first-class sample room. Mr. A Reufly, an old and popular bartender, may be found at Mr. Hafner's place. Joe carries only the best goods and his bar is well patronized and very popular with all.' Later on the building housed Sam DeLeo's Men's Shop, and then the Club Reo (also Club Rio). History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 122 W. 2nd Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 122 W. 2nd Street, lot 21, block 21, in Salida, Colorado.
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- 123 F Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 123 Lower F Street, part of lots 10-13, block 22 in Salida, Colorado. This card is labeled 121 F Street. Sanborn maps indicate that this building was erected between 1883 and 1886. Between 1886 and 1893, the building housed a dry goods business. There were two dry goods firms listed in the 1887 Colorado State Business Directory for Salida: Smith & Randol Bros., and Craig, Sandusky, & Co. Around 1897, a meat market was operating in the building. The 1903 city directory indicates that this was J.F. Hutchinson's meat market. Hutchinson had located to Salida about 1894. He advertised 'cleanliness and good service' at his market. In addition to meats, he also carried fruits, vegetables, eggs, butter, and pickled and canned goods. In 1900, the Salida Semi-Weekly Mail reported: 'It wasn't the leading establishment of the kind originally, but he has made it so through sheer force of personality .. He handles only the choicest meats .. Fresh vegetables and fruits are a specialty of the market and here can always be found the best and correct price.' By 1922, the O.J. Welch Meat Store was operating here, and by 1927, the James Callaway Meat Market. By 1951, Argys Market was listed here. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 123 Lower F Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 123 Lower (or North) F Street, part of lots 14-16, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This building is associated with the commercial development of North F Street, having been erected about 1888-1890 as a saloon and later becoming a grocery. The 1888 Sanborn map shows a one-story frame saloon on this site. The 1890 Sanborn map shows the present buildings, which is also indicated as a saloon. The 1903 city directory indicates that the business was known as 'Ryan's Arcade' or 'The Arcade Bar'. Patrick H. Ryan was the proprietor of the bar and the building was known as the Ryan Block. The 1914 Sanborn map indicated that the building still housed a saloon. By 1922, Prohibition had been enacted, and saloons were no longer listed in the city directory. By that year, Argys Mercantile Company was located here. Dick, Gus, and Theodore Argys were owners and operators of the company, a retail grocery and meat establishment. The Argys Brothers were also the local distributors for Nash automobiles. The Argys Brothers Garage was locatged in the alley just east of the grocery. Theodore Argys was in charge of the retail store. In 1951, the store was known as Argys Market Grocery store, with Theodore as owner and Theodore, Jr. as manager. The Cox Drugstore owned by John F. Cox was also located here in 1951. By 1961, Louis Argys Plumbing & Heating was in operation at this location. History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
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- 123 W. 2nd Street
- Real estate appraisal card. 123 W. 2nd Street, lot 7, block 32, in Salida, Colorado.
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- 124 E Street
- The Salida Fire Company No. 1 was housed at City Hall in Salida, Colorado. This image is from the Bob Rush Photo Collection.