What we know
A bunkhouse of about 1890 for the Santa Fe's section men (PLHS walking tour, S-0235). Both railroads kept section crews every few miles, each a boss and several men; DeLos Barnhardt was the Santa Fe section boss for many years, and the men worked for 40 cents an hour, six days a week (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 63). It stands beside the site of Father Dyer's parsonage (mapped).
Where it was
255 North Jefferson Street (PLHS walking tour, S-0235), El Paso County address point (EPCPortalLocator2026, 2026-10-14), on the building 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-0115: John L. Dyer, The Snow-Shoe Itinerant: An Autobiography of the Rev. John L. Dyer (Cincinnati: Cranston & Stowe, 1890)
- 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.