[Harlan, Andrew James?]

Half Way House

[Colorado Springs, CO]: A.A. Walling, [1902]. Boudoir cabinet card. Albumen photograph [11.5 cm x 19 cm] on a tan mount [12.5 cm x 20 cm] Title in the negative. Walling backstamp with manuscript notation in pencil on reverse: 'Halfway house to pikespeake Colo. July 15, 1902. 3 went to this. Mrs. S.G. Morse'. Item #8810

View of Thomas Palsgrove's 'Half Way House' between Manitou Springs and the summit of Pikes Peak. It started as a cabin in the 1880s, but Palsgrove, kept adding rooms over the years until it became a twenty-two room hotel. Ruxton Park was developed as a town site by Palsgrove and his brothers.

Price: $50.00