Real estate appraisal card. 134 E. 1st Street, lot 22, block 4, in Salida, Colorado. This building is now 132 E. 1st Street.
This parcel was vacant in 1888, according to the Sanborn map. The current building appears on the 1890 map, indicated as a harness shop. A harness shop was also shown here on the 1904 Sanborn map. The 1903-04 city directory indicates that this was the Olin D. Bennett & Son harness shop. The 1905-06 city directory listed two businesses here: the Leo Pedro Saloon (Pedro's residence was also in the building) and the tailor shop of Frank Beers (who also had a residence in the building). In 1909, assayer E. E. Smith had an office here. Smith received his technical training at the School of Mines in Golden, Colo. The Salida Mail noted that "his establishment is fitted up with every requisite of a high-class assay plant." Smith had come to Salida from the San Juan district in 1908. He had also worked in Cripple Creek, Leadville, and other mining camps. A photograph taken in 1911 showed the interior of half of the building, indicated as "Oscar's Place," a tailor shop operated by Oscar F. Bridges. The shop
advertised "high grade tailoring, all kinds of repairing, altering and dyeing, hats cleaned, blocked and trimmed." The 1914 Sanborn map indicated that both stores in the building were vacant. The 1929 Sanborn map showed a bake shop in this building. The 1930-31 directory lists Henry Scott, baker, at this location. By 1951 this was the location of Salida Music (records, sheet music, and instruments) operated by C.E. Upp. Upp & Associates is listed at this address in the 1961 city directory.
History Colorado's Architectural Inventory Forms have more information and are available at the Salida Library.
