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.
