316 Harrison St. Leadville Colorado

[patrick mark pazen]

316 Harrison St.

Leadville, Colorado - Where Doc Holliday held his “last stand”

 

This historic old building is now owned by Life Time Fitness, using it as the headquarters for the Leadville Racing Series. Hence the interior has lots of items for sale related to the bicycle racing series and is considered a retail center for the race.  The front of the building has been nicely redone with new paint making it look quite authentic.  Inside, the grimy look it had the last time I was there five years ago has cleaned up quite nicely as well.   The ceiling is the original one and still has the supposed bullet holes in it.  The floor, according to the manager, is the original one that many a historical figure has crossed.  Upstairs is off limits, though, as it has been redone into private residences.  In conclusion, the fact that this building is now owned by a fitness company I think ol’ Doc would have surely commented “Now, this is funny.”

[Wolfgang]

Thanks for posting.   These things are good to know. . . .     :)

[Sue Cauhape]

That is funny. In the 1970s, I used to hang around Park City, UT before it became too swanky. Then, in the late 80s, I and the family, including my dad, visited Park City. The only building I could recognize at all was the Alamo Bar, a pink cement stand alone building surrounded by what had been made into a park. Another bar had morphed into French patisserie. 

[anthony martin]

  A re-purposed building is a relatively safe building and we can be thankful for that but it would have been grand to have a restaurant and bar that referenced the place in it's salad days and it likely would have been a major draw if handled right.If Doc's ghost ever looks in on his old digs over the old saloon and gambling emporium I just hope that a pretty girl rented the apartment!

[patrick mark pazen]

How right you are Anthony, it would be great to be able to restore the old place to what it was. That and a host of other buildings returned to there glory years would keep the interest in our western history alive. Leadville is doing a good job in caring for its history and to have this building as a museum would help the old town a lot.

 

[Dianne Hartshorn-Blanche's Place]

Things are a'changing in Leadville, and not for the good. It seems as if those racing hombres are taking over the town  and pushing the history out. There are campaigns being launched in support of preserving the history in Leadville before it is lost. However, the racing brings in money, and money talks

[Bat]

Hi Mark do you have any pictures of the building in the then and now?

Regards

[patrick mark pazen]

HI Bat. I did post some pictures the other day exterior and interior and an old picture of the good  old days, not many but enough to show what it looks like now

[Bat]

Hi Mark yep missed them sorry. Great pix by the way. I was looking for them on this post not your home page !!

[anthony martin]

  That article that Gay posted indicated that Mannie Hyman did extensive renovations to the building so I presume that accounts for the remodelling that changed the lower front facade and added a full extra story.Such extensive renovation was pretty common in the old boom towns.In looking at the old orthochromatic photo of the front of Hyman's the paint color reads as so dark that it must have been maroon,dark brown or deep ochre,all popular 1880's colors and the lettering overhead must have been white or gold leaf.Deep yellows,dark reds and certain brown shades register as almost black looking in orthochromatic stock while bright,clear blues come out very light.