Rogers-Smith Building, South side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO
Summary
Significance: This is a well-preserved example of the one-story, false fronted commercial building erected in Rocky Mountain mining camps during the 1880's and 1890's. The facade, apparently dates to a later boom, c. 1900-10 and represents late false front design for mining camps of the region.
Survey number: HABS CO-153
Building/structure dates: ca. 1881- ca. 1882 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1900- ca. 1910 Subsequent Work
Tags
Date
1910
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Rogers, Sophia
Smith, Christina
Clark, Norman D
Rogers, W A
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Thallheimer, Arnold, photographer
Glass, James A, historian
Location
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html