Real estate appraisal card. 135 Lower (or North) F Street, lots A, B, & C, block 4, in Salida, Colorado.
This building was erected in 1901=02. The 1902 Salida Mail reported: 'Messrs. Moore and Killen have their building at the corner of F and Front streets almost completed. The structure is of brick, substantially built, and includes two stories and a basement. The room fronts on F street, and presents a neat, up-to-date appearance. The finishing work is now going on, and when completed the building will be rented as a store room.' On January 1, 1903, Killen & Moore's property was valued at $6,000. The 1903 city directory indicates that the upstairs contained furnished rooms operated by Mildred C. Johnson. The 1904 Sanborn map shows the building divided into three spaces on the ground floor: a grocery store, a meat market, and a hall. An April 1904 Salida Opera House program advertised 'Cinematograph Theatre -- Mildred Block. See Peck's Bad Boy and what happens to him after eating dried apples and drinking sweet cider. Other moving pictures, including Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Admission: 10 cents. Shows Every Night.' By 1905, the building was advertised as the Hotel Mildred, Mrs. M.C. Johnson, proprietor. Also housed in the building was the Salvation Army and Frank Buehring's Shooting Gallery. In 1906, a Salida Opera House program advertised: 'The Mildred Rooms, Steam-Heated -- Modern Conveniences. Headquarters for Theatrical and Commercial People -- Rooms on Second Floor.'
By 1909, the Nick Muto Saloon occupied the F street storefront and the Charles Salerno Grocery was in the 139 F street storefront. Throughout the years, this building has been the location of a barber, cigar store, and confectioner, and by 1927, Coscarella & Alloy's Billiards room. This became the Eagle Pool Room in the 1930s, and the Victoria Pool Room in the 1950s.
History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
