# Dr. William McConnell's home and office

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/dr-william-mcconnells-home-and-office/
- Also known as: the Ford house
- Kind: Historic homes and cabins
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.092, -104.8722 (from a cited description)

- Updated: 2026-10-17

## What we know

Dr. William McConnell, who grew up on his father's land at Table Rock (see the McConnell homestead), finished medical school in 1893 and came to Monument in 1895; he was railway physician for both the Santa Fe and the D&RG between Castle Rock and Husted, and married Lucy Anne Pring in 1898 (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 60). The house had been Col. and Mrs. Ford's and was 'the first in town to have modern plumbing' (p. 130). The McConnell drug store and office burned in the 1940s, when it was the Grange Hall (p. 80). His daughter, Dr. Frances McConnell Mills, became a Denver toxicologist whose laboratory tests 'provided the necessary evidence to convict many killers' (p. 61). Case gives 1895 for his medical degree (S-0110); Lavelett has 1893.

## Where it was

'Dr. McConnell's home and office was on Second Street across from the Town Hall' (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 60). When she wrote, in 1975, the town hall was the old Woodmen Hall at 166 Second Street (mapped), on the south side, so the point is across Second Street from it. Good to about 200 feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Sources

- S-0011: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0110: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0110

## Nearby

- [Higby Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/higby-store/): 0.0 mi southwest
- [Brick drugstore, 312 Second Street (1900)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/brick-drugstore-312-second-street-1900/): 0.0 mi southeast
- [Methodist parsonage (Father Dyer, 1874)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/methodist-parsonage-father-dyer-1874/): 0.0 mi east
- [Woodmen Hall and the old town hall, Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/woodmen-hall-and-the-old-town-hall-monument/): 0.0 mi south
- [Lierd's Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/lierds-store/): 0.0 mi west
- [Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument/): 0.0 mi southwest

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.