# Park Hotel and post office

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/park-hotel-and-post-office/
- Also known as: Hotel Park (1895); Monument post office until 1904
- Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0909, -104.8738 (Sanborn fire-insurance map fitted to today's streets (about a hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

Three-story hotel clad in iron ('Hotel Park' in 1895, 'Park Hotel' in 1900), with the post office next door at 120 Front in a one-story building shared with a confectionery on both maps; in 1895 a printing office stood at 123 and a doctor's office at 122, both vacant by 1900 (S-0147). The Park Hotel and the post office burned on Feb. 27, 1904; Francis W. Bell was postmaster and clerk of the Presbyterian church, and the church's records burned with them (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 79). Her 1894 photo shows the Walker building on Second followed by the Monument and Park hotels (p. 66).

## Where it was

121 Front Street (the post office at 120), south of Second, 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-0147: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/#s-0147

## Nearby

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- [Ice house, Monument](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/ice-house-monument/): 0.0 mi east
- [Limbach Park](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/limbach-park/): 0.0 mi west
- [Monument D&RG depot (1880s-1948)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/monument-d-and-rg-depot-1880s-1948/): 0.0 mi north
- [Shops at 317-319 Second Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/shops-at-317-319-second-street/): 0.0 mi northeast
- [Blacksmith shop, 206 Washington Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/blacksmith-shop-206-washington-street/): 0.1 mi east

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