# General store, 104 Front Street

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/general-store-104-front-street/

- Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.092, -104.8743 (Sanborn fire-insurance map fitted to today's streets (about a hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Two-story frame general store with one-and-a-half-story additions and a dwelling behind, on both Sanborn maps (S-0147). It is the only frame general store on Front Street on either sheet, which makes it a candidate for R. C. Elliott's store: Elliott and J. W. Mudge opened a store on Front Street in 1879, and Elliott ran it for many years (Lavelett, S-0011, pp. 15-16); the 1976 survey describes a two-and-a-half-story frame store of about 1880 (PPLD record of survey B61). The maps name no owners.

## Where it was

104 Front Street, west side, 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: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0011
- S-0017: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0017
- S-0101: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0101
- S-0147: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0147

## Nearby

- [Hotel Ellis (1895)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/hotel-ellis-1895/): 0.0 mi south
- [Buggy and wagon repository, 129 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/buggy-and-wagon-repository-129-front-street/): 0.0 mi east
- [Blacksmith and wagon shop, 106 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/blacksmith-and-wagon-shop-106-front-street/): 0.0 mi north
- [Livery stable, 131 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/livery-stable-131-front-street/): 0.0 mi northeast
- [Walker stone store and hall](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/walker-stone-store-and-hall/): 0.0 mi southeast
- [Saloon and barber shop, 127-128 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/saloon-and-barber-shop-127-128-front-street/): 0.0 mi southeast

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