Saloon, 225 Washington Street (1895)

Name: Saloon, 225 Washington Street (1895)
Address: CO, US

Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950Historic or vanishedEl Paso County

What we know

One-story frame saloon on the Nov. 1895 Sanborn map, vacant in Oct. 1900. Next door at 224, the 1895 'B. & S.' (the maps' abbreviation for boots and shoes) had become a carpet-weaving shop by 1900, and 226 held a meat market and merchandise storage (S-0147).

Where it was

225 Washington Street, east 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.

See it on the map

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.

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