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Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO

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Stark Brothers Mercantile Company & Home Comfort Hotel, North side, West Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee County, CO

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Significance: Probably the buildings most closely identified with St. Elmo during its final boom of c.1908-17 and during its decline after 1926. The Stark family was responsible for keeping the identity of St. Elmo alive long after mining ceased and miners left. They purchased most of the surviving buildings and kept them in use as vacation cabins after 1924. The store and hotel was the center of tourism in the town for some 30 years, serving as post office, telegraph office, general store, cabin rental agency, and boarding house. Without the Stark's passionate dedication to preserving St. Elmo, little of its integrity would have survived.
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N81
Survey number: HABS CO-147
Building/structure dates: ca. 1882- ca. 1884 Initial Construction
Building/structure dates: ca. 1909 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1909- ca. 1917 Subsequent Work
Building/structure dates: ca. 1942- ca. 1950 Subsequent Work

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Date

1950
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Contributors

Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Bostwick, H C
Maish, W W
Garrison, J H
Stark, Anna A
McClure, J E
Wegman-French, Lysa, transmitter
Thallheimer, Arnold, photographer
Glass, James A, historian
Long Hoeft Architects, delineator
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Location

chaffee county38.75367, -106.25221
Google Map of 38.7536679, -106.2522143
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Library of Congress
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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

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