What we know
One-story saloon (128) and barber shop (127), on both Sanborn maps (S-0147). Probably Henry Limbach's: Lavelett's photo of about 1917 shows 'Burrell's Billiard Hall formerly Limbach's Saloon & Barbershop' on Front Street next to the Walker building (S-0011, pp. 37, 57), with 'a narrow one-way passage between Limbach's saloon and Rod Walkers store' (p. 140). Limbach is the saloonkeeper in the 1884, 1886 and 1888 directories (pp. 27-29). Lavelett says two men were shot and killed in this saloon in separate incidents (p. 57). The maps name no owners.
Where it was
127 and 128 Front Street, just north of the stone store, 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.