The northern part of 1201 Washington Avenue was built in 1873 as a bank. In 1901, the owners enlarged the building by adding on to the south end and tied it together by adding a common facade. They did a good job, didn’t they? It’s hard to tell that it was built at two different times.
The wooden canopy was added to shade the sidewalk in 1969. The merchants all along Washington were building canopies at the time, in an effort to give downtown a more unified look and feel, and try to give it the feel of a shopping mall.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
