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Item Title
St. Elmo School House, Northwest corner, First Street & North Avenue, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
LocationFirst Street & North Avenue,
Saint Elmo (historical), CO
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS CO-159
Building/structure dates:
1882 initial construction
Significance: The St. Elmo Schoolhouse is a well-preserved illustration of the wooden frame, one-room school built in many mining camps of Colorado during the 1870s and 1880s. Few other mining camp schoolhouses in the region have survived with so much of their historical details intact. It is also the best preserved and most substantial building surviving from St. Elmo's first boom of 1880-85.
Subjects
EducationSchoolsWooden Buildings
Related Names
School District No. 12
Thallheimer, Arnold, Photographer
Glass, James A., Historian
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. ST. ELMO SCHOOL HOUSE, VIEWING NORTH
2. ST. ELMO SCHOOL HOUSE, VIEWING SOUTH
3. INTERIOR VIEW OF ST. ELMO SCHOOL HOUSE
4. INTERIOR VIEW OF ST. ELMO SCHOOL HOUSE
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