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The Palace Hotel, a $20,000 three-story brick building designed by Charles J. Anderson and
owned by Ambrose Ramsey, was built at 204 N. F Street during 1906-09. Distinctive
features of the building’s façade were a heavily ornamented parapet with stone trim,
corbelling, and half-round and rectangular inset panels with textured stucco, thick rock-faced
stone lintel courses and narrow stone sill courses, paired...
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The Denver & Rio Grande Hospital opened in November 1885, described as “one of the finest buildings of similar size in the West and...the especial pride of the town.” Railroad workers throughout the line paid fifty cents each month to a fund to cover the operation of the hospital. The substantial two-
and-a-half-story brick building resembled a fine residence and featured a wrap-around
verandah surmounted by a balcony. ...
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Dr. Frank N. Cochems established the Red Cross Hospital in the building at 123 G Street, which had been erected in the early 1890s and used as a brothel. Dr. Cochems reportedly founded the facility because “the people of Southern and Western Colorado and Northern New Mexico were sorely in need of a hospital in which the confidence of all would repose unreserved.” The institution was...
64. Downtown Salida
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This image (taken around 1910) of William and Mary Wickers, and their horse Buttons, shows his remodeled popcorn wagon that used to be Salida Fire Department’s Hook and Ladder Truck. Wickers used to farm in Chaffee County but later in life sold popcorn and ice cream on the corner of F and 1st from his food truck. They are pictured in front of 124 E with some fire department members.
Bob Rush Collection.
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This image (taken around 1910) of William and Mary Wickers, and their horse Buttons, shows his remodeled popcorn wagon that used to be Salida Fire Department’s Hook and Ladder Truck. Wickers used to farm in Chaffee County but later in life sold popcorn and ice cream on the corner of F and 1st from his food truck. They are pictured in front of 124 E with some fire department members.
Bob Rush Collection.