What we know
A Victorian house of about 1890 that 'was home to many railroad agents and their families' (PLHS walking tour, S-0235); the rest of the society's text is lost. Lavelett names E. W. Hunt as the Santa Fe's agent at Monument for many years and W. N. Willis as its last (S-0011, p. 63).
Where it was
356 North Jefferson Street (PLHS walking tour, S-0235), El Paso County address point (EPCPortalLocator2026, 2026-10-14), on the house at that address in OpenStreetMap. Good to about 30 feet.
A street address, located with the county's address points.
Sources
- S-0002: Palmer Lake Historical Society website (palmerdividehistory.org)
- 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-0103: OpenStreetMap extracts via the Overpass API (2026-10-05)
- S-0104: El Paso County GIS: address locators and parcels
- S-0235: Palmer Lake Historical Society, "Palmer Lake Walking Tour" and "Monument Walking Tour" web pages (palmerdividehistory.org, about 2020-2023; removed; Internet Archive captures)
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.