Cash-Williams Building, North side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
Summary
Significance: The building is interesting architecturally for the simulation in wood of urban, masonry, commercial blocks composed of multiple shops. It also illustrates the widespread speculative building enterprises that arose in a new mining camp. Cash apparently erected this building for rental investment.
Survey number: HABS CO-145
Building/structure dates: ca. 1881- ca. 1885 Initial Construction
Tags
Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Cash, Reuben M
Williams, Daniel
Stark, Anna A
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Thallheimer, Arnold, photographer
Glass, James A, historian
Location
chaffee county, 38.75367, -106.25221
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html