What we know
One-story brick drugstore with a dwelling, the only brick building on either sheet, on the Oct. 1900 Sanborn map; the lot is empty in Nov. 1895 (S-0147).
Where it was
312 Second Street, north side, between Washington and Jefferson, on the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Monument, sheet 1, Oct. 1900 (empty in Nov. 1895) (Library of Congress, S-0147); placed by fitting the sheet to today's Front, Washington and Jefferson street crossings at 1st and 3rd streets (six points, each within about 15 feet of the fit). Good to about a hundred feet.
Sources
- S-0147: Sanborn-Perris Map Co., Monument, El Paso County, Col., fire-insurance maps, sheet 1, November 1895 and October 1900 (Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Sanborn Maps collection)
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.