"Early downtown Golden, Colorado" - 1.07.003

Washington Avenue
Circa 1878

Looking south down Washington Avenue one can see the Jefferson County Courthouse towering over the streetscape.  Pictured in right foreground are Smith's Corner, the Taft Building and Odd Fellows Hall, whose upper floors were joined together in 1878 by prominent Colorado hotelkeeper George W. Bacon into the original Avenue Hotel.  Avenue Hotel's sign may be seen on Odd Fellows Hall building (third from right).