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Harrison Street, Leadville, Colorado, 1879. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
Looking north on Harrison St. in Leadville. This is a view of horse drawn wagons and carriages in the dirt street, pedestrians along the boardwalks and a group of men, one with a burro, in the middle of the street. False front businesses line the street and the signs include: Crockery and Glassware, Chandeliers and Lamp Goods, Cutlery and Plated Ware, French John, Slap Jack, Lunch and Soups, Wholesale Liquors, Parlor Restaurant, Boston Clothing House, Drugs, Hardware, Printing, and Dry Goods |
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The Telegraph building on the corner of Harrison Avenue, looking up Main Street, Leadville, Colorado, circa 1879-1884. Photo is courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
An exterior view of a two story building on the corner of Harrison Avenue and Main Street (renamed West Third Street). This building was erected in 1879, and features a bracketed cornice, tall storefronts with double doors, second-story windows with stone sills, brick arches with stone keystones and telegraph armatures are on the rooftop.
Men stand on boardwalks and horses are along the side of the street. Telegraph poles are on the side of the streets. False front structures can be seen down third Street.
Store signs on Harrison Ave. include "Western Union Telegraph Office", "A.T. & S.F. Freight and Ticket Office". Store signs on Third Street include, "Notary Public and Conveyancer", "O'Brien & Cannavan Merchant Tailors", "Pendery & Co. Mining Bureau, Mines Bought, Bonded, and Sold", "Winter Bros. Assayers", "Hand Made Sour Mash Whiskey", "Paris Bourbon Co. Kentucky", "H.C. Clay and Co.", "City Laundry", "The Merchants", "Saddle Horses", "Sachs Sample Room", and a banner reads: "Miners and Prospectors Assay Office". |
Patrick A. Kelly was the Leadville city marshal from April 1879 - November 22, 1879. Leadville did not have a Marshal during December 1879 then Martin "Mart" Duggan returned to Leadville and served as marshal from January to April 1880.
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| Leadville City Marshal Badge, 1884. This badge was presented to Harvey S. Faucett by the Leadville police force and citizens on July 11, 1884. Photo courtesy of Lake County Public Library |
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| Leadville City Marshal badge back, July 11, 1884. This gold badge with diamond was presented to Harvey S. Faucett by the police force and Leadville's citizens. Faucett was Leadville's town marshal in 1884. photo courtesy of Lake County Public Library |
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The Lake County Courthouse, Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado, circa 1880-85. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library
The Court House in Leadville was built on Harrison Ave. in 1880. It is constructed of brick with a cupola, quoins, and a sculpture of Lady Justice. The Leadville city jail was located on the ground floor through a back entrance. This photo shows pedestrians and horses on Harrison Ave. An office building with store front and a sign that reads: "Dawes Restaurant", S. McDowall Justice of the Peace", "Post Office", and "Day & Jones, Mining and Real Estate". Bricks are stacked in an empty lot waiting for construction. |
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The Tabor Opera House, Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado. Circa 1879-1880. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
A view of the three-story Tabor Opera House on Harrison Ave. in Leadville Colorado. An exterior wooden passage extends from the third-floor of the Tabor Opera House to the Clarendon Hotel next door. Store-fronts on the bottom floor have banners that read: "One Price Clothing House", and "J.S. Miller & Co.", near by signs read: "Billiard Hall", "Opera Saloon". Men pose in front of the buildings.
The Tabor Opera House was built in 1879 by Horace Austin Warner Tabor, one of Colorado's well known mining magnates. It was one of the most costly and most substantially-built structures in Colorado History. It was completed in only 100 days from the date of ground-breaking. |
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The Clarendon Hotel, Leadville Colorado, 1879. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library
A view of the Clarendon Hotel on Harrison Avenue in Leadville Colorado in 1879. The Tabor Opera House in under construction next door and on the opposite side is the Telegraph Building on the corner of Harrison Ave. and Main Street. It has a banner that reads: "A.T. & S.F.R.R. Freight and Ticket Office" and "Western Union Telegraph Office". |
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A view of Harrison Avenue from Third Street, Leadville Colorado, 1880. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library. The view of Harrison Ave includes a two-story brick Mountain Claims Office on the corner with the Atlantic and Pacific Telegraph Office. Next is the Clarendon Hotel, the Tabor Opera House, the Leadville City Post Office, The City Bank Block, Raymond's Old Stove Building, the Quincy Block, the Courthouse across the street and nearly finished, E.A. Raymond Stove in the distance, residence of A. Meyer on Capitol Hill (future Kelly Place, then Healy boardinghouse).
The street is busy with horse-drawn flat-bed wagons, a carriage, brick and wood frame buildings and pedestrians. Telegraph poles and lines crisscross the street to wood supports on-top of some buildings. Business signs include: "Moore & Daniel Civil and Mining Engineers, "U.S. Dep. Surveyors", "Union and Kansas Pacific Railways", W.L. Marcy, Civil Engineer", U.S. Mineral Surveyor", "Cigar", "St. Louis Beer", "Clayton and Harmon", "Quincy Block" is painted on a top hat on the side of a building. |
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State Street, Leadville Colorado, 1880-1885, Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library
A photo taken by George D. Wakely in the early 1880s.
View looking west from Harrison Avenue down Leadville Colorado's State Street (later Second Street). Leadville businesses include Little Pittsburg Beer Hall, Theater Comique, St. James Restaurant, A.M. Jane, Commission Merchant, Odeon, Occidental Restaurant, Palace Hotel, and the Clark and Tweed City Bakery. |
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Chestnut Street and Carbonate Hill, Leadville, Colorado, circa 1879-1880. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
This is a view of the Grand Hotel on Chestnut Street. The two-story hotel has a flat hipped roof with a gabled attic dormer windows and a second story balcony with decorative balustrade. Signs on the nearby buildings read: "Marx Bros. O.K. Clothing Store", "Hayes & Wood Assayers", "Dr. Houghton", and "Louis Braham & Co.". Horse drawn wagons are on Chestnut Street. Log cabins and tents are on Carbonate Hill. |
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An interior view of a saloon in Leadville Colorado about 1880-1900.
Men inside a Leadville saloon gambling with poker chips, a roulette wheel, and slot machines. A man in an apron carries a tray of glasses. Spitoons on the floor, a stove for heat and photos hang on the walls. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library. |
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| An interior view of a Leadville, Colorado gambling house, circa 1880-1900. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library. |
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| An interior view of one of Leadville, Colorado's nicer gambling houses, 1880-1900. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library |
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| The Leadville Post Office, the new Tabor Opera House under construction and the Clarendon Hotel on Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado, circa about 1879. Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library This view south of Harrison Ave. shows a dirt street lined with wood-framed, false front businesses. Telegraph poles extend in the distance. The dirt street is busy with horse drawn flat-bed and covered wagons and pedestrians are on the road and the boardwalks. The Tabor Opera House is under construction in the left center. Business advertising on the east side of the street includes, "Live and Let Live", Restaurant |
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| The Old Union Pacific Passenger Depot in Leadville, Colorado, 1890-1900, circa 1893. Photo courtesy of Denver Public Library |
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Leadville's Old Post Office, West Eighth and Harrison Ave., Leadville, Colorado, 1895-1900. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
This is an exterior view of the old Leadville post office, later City Hall. The two-story brick building has a hip roof with flared eaves and dormers, a concrete stairway leads to the first floor above ground garden level. Large semi-circular fan lights above the first-story windows with decorative keystones. An American flag flies from a pole on the roof. A group of people stand on the stairs near the entrance. A man and a woman in a long dress cross the street. There is a street light at the intersection and houses are behind the post office. |
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A view looking south on Harrison Avenue, Leadville, Colorado, circa about 1915. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
The Leadville brick post office with dormer windows is shown on the left. American flags on the roof tops of commercial buildings and a banner on the post office reads: "Men wanted for the United States Army". Model T cars, pedestrians, carriages and wagons are on the dirt street. The following buildings can be seen: the Presbyterian Church, Hotel Vendome, Lake County Courthouse, American National Bank, and the three-story Hotel Delaware. |
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| Daniel Healy and boarders in front of the Healy boardinghouse, circa about 1900. Daniel's cousin, Miss Nellie A Healy might be in this photo. Photo courtesy of Lake County Public Library |
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| Daniel Healy completed a third floor |
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| Miss Virginia McMechen, Teacher at the Ninth Street School, Leadville Colorado. 1890. Photo courtesy of Lake County Public Library |
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| Miss Nellie A Healy and her fifth grade class at the Ninth St. School, Leadville, Colorado, circa about 1905. Photo courtesy of Lake County Public Library |
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Ibex Mining Company Mines, near Leadville, Colorado, 1891 and 1900
A view of frame mine buildings, head frames and tailing piles at the Ibex Mine. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library |
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The dilapidated Healy House, Leadville, Colorado, circa 1937. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library.
Nellie A. Healy, representing the Daniel Healy Family Trust, donated the Healy boardinghouse to the Leadville Historic Association in 1937. In 1938 it was restored by the National Youth Association and was presented to the State Historical Society in 1947. |
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| The Healy House, newly restored, Harrison Ave and Tenth St., Leadville, Colorado, 1940. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library. This is an exterior view of the front of the Healy House State Museum. The three-story wood frame building was originally built as a two-story home in 1878 by August R. Meyer for his new bride. He sold it two years later in 1881 to the First Methodist Episcopal Church and it was used as a parsonage. Then in 1886, Patrick A. Kelly and his wife Ellen Healy Kelly and two daughters, Belle and Claire Kelly, purchased it as their home. In 1895 it transferred hands from PA Kelly to his brother in law, Daniel Healy and at his death in 1916 his cousin, Nellie A. Healy became executor of the property. Over time it fell into dis-repair and in 1937 Nellie A Healy donated the Healy House to the Leadville Historical Society. Restoration was completed from 1937-1940. In 1947 the Healy House museum was presented to the Colorado State Historical Society. |
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The newly restored Healy House, Harrison Ave. and East Tenth St., Leadville, Colorado,1940. Photo courtesy of the Denver Public Library This is an exterior view of the north facade of the Healy House State Museum.
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