What we know
Two-story frame general store with platform scales in front and a long iron-clad warehouse behind it on Washington Street, on both Sanborn maps; the engraver spelled it 'Dunehee Blk.' (1895) and 'Dunehee Block' (1900) (S-0147). When fire destroyed three business houses on the north side of Second at Washington on Sunday, Aug. 18, 1889, 'the store of Will Lierd in the Dunchee block on the south side of the street' was saved (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 79). The name is probably that of A. Dunshee, proprietor of the Monument House in the 1888 directory (p. 29).
Where it was
320 Second Street, the southwest corner of Second and Washington, on the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Monument, sheet 1, Nov. 1895 and Oct. 1900 (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-0011: Lucille Lavelett, Through the Years at Monument, Colorado: The Story of Monument, Colorado, 5th printing (Palmer Lake: Palmer Lake Historical Society, 2004); first published Colorado Springs: Valliant Press, 1975
- 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.