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Item Title
Root House, 22005 Gunnison Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
Location22005 Gunnison Avenue,
Saint Elmo (historical), CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CO-167
Building/structure dates:
1881 initial construction
Building/structure dates:
1885 subsequent work
Significance: An interesting illustration of the changes in log cabin construction technique from the initial boom of 1880-81 to the later 1880's is seen in the two-part log house of A.W. Root: Saddle notching to square; "Anglo-Western" plan of entry in gable end of 1881 to entrance in the longitudinal side of late 1880's. Root exemplified the versatility of trades required for an entrepreneur to make a living in a mining camp on a slow decline, such as was St. Elmo after about 1885.
Subjects
L-plan BuildingsHousesLog Buildings
Related Names
Root, A. W.
Taber, S. L.
Thallheimer, Arnold, Photographer
Glass, James A., Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. ROOT HOUSE, NORTH SIDE OF GUNNISON STREET
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