"View in Golden" - 306a

East side of Washington Avenue
1873

This image is taken of what is today the east side of the 1200 block of Washington Avenue.  Buildings from left to right include the Avenue Hotel (1211 Washington Ave., built 1870, Garbareno House in 1873); Linder Block (Northern half still standing at 1215 Washington Ave., built 1873, Slocum & Jones Grocery in 1873); and the Loveland Block (second of two buildings by that name, existed 1867-1962 at 1219-21 Washington Ave.).  Hotel was built by noted Italian immigrant Charles Garbareno, and was through time named the City Restaurant, Garbareno House/Hotel, Hotel Babcock, Crawford House, Poe Hotel, Avenue Hotel, and Cody Hotel, now remodeled with 1931 storefront.  Loveland Block was built by Duncan E. Harrison and William A.H. Loveland, was remodeled with this front in 1873 (originally a front gabled roof), and housed stores, Methodist and Episcopal churches and the Colorado Transcript and Jefferson County Republican newspapers.  This was annexed and incorporated into Linder Block in 1902, and demolished along with half of original Linder Block in 1962.