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The photograph above is one of the images from a collection of fifty-three given to the Town of Hot Sulphur Springs by the photographer Paul Gilbert and currently displayed in the Town Hall at 513 Aspen Street.  The hand-written description information was provided by Horrace Button, a resident of Hot Sulphur Springs.  We assume that the hand writing itself is by the photographer.  Please note the "This may not be correct" comment in the lower right-hand corner.  By the way, the current Town Hall is across Aspen Street to the left of where the Hotel Grand used to be located and the Grand Hotel is where the liquor store, thrift store, laundromat used to be.  Also in the collection is the same photograph without identifiers that has the date "1915" written on the back.  Photograph #114

For a PDF file of this photograph along with a list of the descriptive building identifiers, please click here.

Downtown Hot Sulphur Springs at the corner of Aspen Street and Grand Avenue looking west, c. 1905.  You can see the bridge over the Grand River at the end of the street.  The Grand River name was changed to the Colorado River in 1921.  The Bank Block that burned down in 1977 is on the left.  The original Riverside Hotel and Riverside Garage are on the right.  The vacant lot on the right is where the current brick Riverside Garage now stands.  According to Denver Public Library records, the Riverside Hotel was built in 1903 and remodeled in 1983.  Photograph #111

On the back of the photograph is written "Adams Merc CO and Kennedy P.O. Hot Sulphur Springs About 1900".  These buildings were located on the northeast corner of Grand Avenue and Aspen Street.  Adams Mercantile on the left later became Morgan's Hardware store and that lot is currently vacant.  The Kennedy Post Office on the right later became the M-Bar 11 cafe.  That lot is currently occupied by a mixed use residential and commercial building.  Photograph #106

On the back of this photograph is written "Hot Sulphur Springs - Moffat Road - McClure 1906."  The Moffat Road refers to the Denver, Northwestern and Pacific Railway that cuts across the center of the photograph in front of the Colorado (then called Grand) River.  The hot springs is in the foreground and on the other side of the track on the center left edge of the photo is the Hot Sulphur Station Depot.  The photographer Louis Charles (LC) McClure was a student of western photographer William Henry Jackson.  Photograph #104

On the back of this photograph is written "Camping in Hot Sulphur Springs Park About 1900."  The photograph appears to be taken in the vicinity of the railroad in the previous photo looking in a westerly direction with the base of Mount Bross in the background and the hot springs towards the left side outside this image.  Photograph #108

On the back of this photograph is written "H.S.S. 1890" which is 30 years after Hot Sulphur Springs was founded in 1860.  This view is looking east with the Grand (Colorado) River in the lower left hand corner and 'Potato Hill' in the center background where the current double (auto and rail road) bridges exist.  Photograph #105

The McQueary House Hotel and Hot Sulphur Springs Stage Coach Stop, date unknown.  This is the same building as the later Park Hotel in photograph #112 above located on the southeast corner of Nevava Street and Aspen Street.  A McQueary relative on an ancestry.com web site page has identified those in the photo as "Charlie Purcell, driver, Frank, Hazel, Fount, Carl, and Earl McQueary; probably Charley Pine by the house.  Fount McQueary owned the hotel, the Antler's Saloon and the Livery Stable."  To read a Grand County History website article titled 'McQueary Family of Middle Park', please click here.  Photograph #101

On the back of this photograph is written, "Hot Sulphur Springs About 1907."  This photograph was taken from the same vantage point as the 1890 photograph #105 above.  Note the later building addtions 17 years later including the Riverside Hotel and Riverside Hotel on Grand Avenue on the left edge of the photo; and the Grand Hotel on Aspen Street in the center right of the photo.  The Grand Hotel is the long white building with eight upstairs windows that was located across from where the Town Hall now stands.  The Kinney House Hotel is the building on the far near right edge of the photo.  Photograph #107

 

Notes on the back of this photograph state, "Hot Sulphur Springs; Court House Frame, 1902-1938; Fish Hatchery, 1906-1916; Hotel Grand, 1910-1942; Kenney Hotel, 1875-1908; Blue Spruce Hotel, 1903-1977" assuming these are the life spans of those buildings.  This panorama was made by manually photographing four different shots then lining them up and taping them together.  With a southeasterly viewpoint from the base of Mount Bross, the hot springs is on the far right, potato hill is on the far left and the McQueary House Hotel and Stagecoach Stop to the right of the center seam.  The date of this photograph is unknown.  Photograph #115

It DOES look like a mitten. Located along the cliffs north of the Colorado River east of town above the Ute Bill Creek Road about 200 yards west of the gate at the double bridges (U.S. 40 and railroad).  Best seen heading westbound on U.S. 40 as you cross the bridge over the river.  It has been stated that there was another mitten rock on 'potato hill' south of the bridges that was removed during construction in the area.  Date of photograph is unknown.  Photographer may have been Paul Gilbert himself.  Photograph #110

On the back of this photograph is written, "1st School in HSS; In Dugout underneath Riverside [Hotel]; Lace Collar, Daisy Jenny (Horace Button's Mother) [actually sister, front row, fourth from the right].  This school is actually not the first school but where the county courthouse currently is located.  The date of the photograph is unknown and the photographer is unknown.  Photograph #103

On the back of this photograph is written, "Nate Shore".  Born in Canada in 1856, Nathanial 'Nathan' Shore ranched along the Williams Fork in Grand County and freighted to Hot Sulphur Springs and from Georgetown.  For a link to a short biography of Shore on the Grand County History website, please click here.  Mount Bross is in the background.  Date of photograph is unknown.  Photograph #109

Nothing is written on the back of this photograph.  On the original dust cover was a tag that read, "Skier jumping off the Big Ski Jump."  The location of this jump, which no longer exists, is on the south side of U.S. 40, roughtly behind where The Glory Hole Cafe now stands.  The Riverside Hotel is on the center left edge of the image.  Date of photograph per GCHA may be 1916.  Photograph #113