[ "The Kingdon" Hotel In Chivington, Kiowa County, Colorado ]

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_____The image is 5 x 7", on a black card 7.25 x 9.25"._____ The Wichita photographer's credit is rubber-stamped on the rear. _____ The image is of The Kingdon hotel in Chivington, Kiowa County, Colorado._____ It was a three story Victorian structure, in the Queen Anne style, with a corner cupola._____ It had 60 rooms and cost $10,000 to build on a corner lot._____ The lower right storefront appears to be occupied by "Sunflower Shoes." . _____ Apparently the hotel is newly finished as the sidewalks still have their retaining boards staked to the street side._____ Three men are standing on the sidewalk facing the camera._____ There is a tall ladder propped on the roof of the porch extending to the topmost roof._____ We assume the trio were in the process of doing work on there. _____ Chivington was founded in 1887 as a watering spot for the Missouri Pacific Railroad._____ When the Mo-Pac realized that the water at the town was too alkali to be used in locomotive boilers it relocated the stop eastward to the town of Horace across the border in Kansas._____ The Kingdon Hotel was disassembled and its lumber used in two other locations in Colorado._____ . _____ There is a faint crease across one corner of the card, not affecting the image. _____ We could find no other images of The Kingdon on the net._____. N° de ref. del artículo 25658

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