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Russell-Thorp Building, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
Summary
Significance: Represents the first commercial buildings erected in a Colorado Rocky Mountain mining camp of c. 1880 after the sawmill was established. Vertical planks were hastily put together to form the characteristic commercial false front, the emblem of a store in a mining camp. For St. Elmo, this is one of the earliest surviving commercial buildings. Howard Russell, publisher of the Mountaineer, was a prominent figure in the new camp. The building also illustrates the erection of commercial buildings for rental income.
Survey number: HABS CO-152
Building/structure dates: ca. 1880- ca. 1881 Initial Construction
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Date
1933 - 1970
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Russell, Howard
Givens, Lucy Cooke
Thorp, W H
Vandervelde, Matilda S
Shinn, W C
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
