Palmer Divide Research

Woodmen Hall and the old town hall, Monument

Woodmen Hall and the old town hall, Monument is a historic or vanished place in El Paso County, Colorado, on the Palmer Divide, listed here under other historic buildings.

Also: W.O.W. Camp 302 · Old Town Hall (1980), 166 Second Street

Other historic buildingsHistoric or vanishedEl Paso County

What we know

The Woodmen of the World camp organized in July 1896 and built its hall 'on the south side of Second Street'; the camp merged into Colorado Springs' Camp 5 in 1929 and sold the hall to W. E. Higby; it went to the Monument Homemaker Club in 1941 and to the town in 1965, and served as town hall until the new hall replaced it in 1980 (Lavelett p. 71; PPLD records of survey B66, B67). Dances, card parties and early Catholic masses were held in it (Lavelett). The Oct. 1900 Sanborn sheet shows no hall on this block, so it was probably built after 1900. The 1895 town hall, a different building, stood at 133 Front Street (mapped).

Where it was

166 Second Street, Monument, by Census street-range interpolation (Census geocoder, 2026-10-07). Lavelett: 'The Woodman Hall was torn down and replaced by the current Town Hall in 1980' (S-0011, p. 71); the town's 2017 roofing notice puts the 'Old Town Hall/Chamber of Commerce Offices' at 166 Second Street, and the Chamber moved there in 2015. That the Old Town Hall is the 1980 building is an inference. Good to a few hundred feet.

A street address placed along its block; good to a few hundred feet.

See it on the map

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-0017: Pikes Peak Library District, Regional History & Genealogy
  • S-0101: Elaine Freed and David Barber, Historic Sites & Structures, El Paso County, Colorado ([Colorado Springs]: prepared for the El Paso County Land Use Department, [1977]), 56 pp., with the survey photographs in PPLD's Historic Sites and Structures collection
  • S-0104: El Paso County GIS: address locators and parcels
  • S-0160: Web pages on violent-death sites, read 2026-10-07

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.

1976 survey photographs

Taken for Elaine Freed and David Barber's survey of El Paso County's historic sites and held by the Pikes Peak Library District. The links open the library's records.

Know more about Woodmen Hall and the old town hall, Monument?

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