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Item Title
Roads Building I, South side, Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
LocationGunnison Avenue,
Saint Elmo (historical), CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CO-160
Building/structure dates:
1881 initial construction
Significance: The only commercial building from the 1880's secondary business district on Gunnison surviving with its original character intact. The Roads Building I also has one of the most ornamental facades surviving: pilasters, applied moldings below shop windows, bracket supporting main cornice, secondary cornice, etc. Like its eastern neighbor, the building illustrates speculative commercial building during the initial boom of a mining camp. Roads erected this building in the 1880's and rented it for some 25 years.
Subjects
CommerceCommercial FacilitiesWooden Buildings
Related Names
Roads, L. M.
Rhodes, Wellington
Stark, Mrs. Anna A.
Stark, Anthony J.
Rhodes, Charity
Thallheimer, Arnold, Photographer
Glass, James A., Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. ROADS BUILDING I, SOUTH SIDE OF GUNNISON STREET
2. ROADS BUILDING I, VIEW FROM REAR
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