# Town hall and hook-and-ladder house (1895)

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/town-hall-and-hook-and-ladder-house-1895/
- Also known as: the Hook and Ladder House
- Kind: Other historic buildings
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.0926, -104.8739 (Sanborn fire-insurance map fitted to today's streets (about a hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-07

## What we know

One-story iron-clad building marked 'Town Hall', housing the hook-and-ladder truck, on the Nov. 1895 Sanborn map, which also gives the population as 500 and the water facilities as 'not good'. It is gone from the Oct. 1900 sheet, which still lists the 'H. & L. truck & buckets at Town Hall' (S-0147). 'In 1894 the firehouse was called the Hook and Ladder House' (Lavelett, S-0011, p. 79). The town's first meeting, on July 3, 1879, was in the Gwillim hall 'on the corner of Third and Front Streets' (p. 14); whether this building was that hall is not known.

## Where it was

133 Front Street, east side, near Third, on the Sanborn Fire Insurance Map of Monument, sheet 1, Nov. 1895 (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

- [Livery stable, 131 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/livery-stable-131-front-street/): 0.0 mi south
- [Blacksmith and wagon shop, 106 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/blacksmith-and-wagon-shop-106-front-street/): 0.0 mi southwest
- [Grain warehouse, 111 Front Street (1900)](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/grain-warehouse-111-front-street-1900/): 0.0 mi northwest
- [Buggy and wagon repository, 129 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/buggy-and-wagon-repository-129-front-street/): 0.0 mi south
- [General store, 104 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/general-store-104-front-street/): 0.0 mi southwest
- [Saloon and barber shop, 127-128 Front Street](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/saloon-and-barber-shop-127-128-front-street/): 0.1 mi south

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