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File, DocumentEntry/Object ID
2015.180.11.91Scope and Content
Rans Briefcase Contents: File #2 of 3 files.
Includes Rans' article on Felix Alston's All Stars; three colored postcards including one of Rawlins from Southside, on I-80, Range Cafe, with H. Hansen at top of building; Front Street Scene colored art card;
Article of Notice to Architects re: 5th and Cedar Street, N. W. for the building of the Carbon County, Wyoming Territory Jail, 1875. Entries are from the Laramie Daily Sun, 2/9/1875, 4/3/1875, 6/30/1875, 7/21/1875, 7/31/1875,8/14/1875, 8/23/1875, 9/27/1875, 3/31/1876, 3/29/1876-by 1877 jail was too small and the county went shopping for a new site; old jail was sold to Rawlins Merchant William Granger who remodeled it and added on to his frame store west of the jail in 1877.
Notes on block 23 facing Front Street re: H. C. Hall and James France, Lots 13-15; More notes on block 23 facing Fourth Street, James France, E. W. Gentor, James France, Tract D, block 23;
Blank stationery sheet of "The Cash Bakery J. Waeckerlin, Prop., 190_;
Walking Tour Brochure History, by Rans Baker, pages 1-29. More information is in Rans notes as was published in brochure. Items of note:
Ferris Mansion; Shrine Temple; Courthouse Block; Jeffrey Center; St. Joseph's Catholic Church; Kraft Hall (Rosier House); Elks Lodge; Ferris Hotel; 310 West Pine; Carbon Building; City Hall; Miller and Daley Buildings, 5th & Cedar; Old City Hall, now Police Station; The Hugus-Ferguson Building, 5th & Cedar; First National Bank, 4th & Buffalo; Leo Keller Building (214 4th Street); 401 East Cedar (NW corner of 4th & Cedar) site originally Gormley Building; Hansen-Ferguson-Cullen Building, 313-315 West Cedar; Odd Fellows Building, 311 West Cedar; 3rd & Cedar originally Ford Garage;
The Blake House, 3rd & Cedar; Osborne Building, 5th & Cedar; 5th and Front, (Post Office); 5th Street Crossing information; Empty lot site of the "France Block;" 415 West Front, "Wyoming Bar;" 416 West Cedar, "Cedar Chest," (2016 is a Restaurant); 410 West Cedar; 400 West Cedar (S. W. corner 4th and Cedar); 120 4th Street, site of H. Hansen's second jewelry store/Palace Candy Kitchen, burned to ground, 1935; 116 or 118 4th Street; 112 4th was an annex to the Brunswick Hotel?; J. P. Ryan's Home Ranch Saloon; 114 4th Street, originally 112, "The Brunswick;" 113 4th site of Carbon county Journal; 123 4th, Charles Anderson Building; 316 West Cedar, Rasmusson-history given;
304-308 West Cedar, originally Chevrolet Garage; France Memorial Presbyterian, 3rd & Cedar; 3rd & Front, N. W. Corner, first lodge hall and commercial building; Note on the telegraph pole location from which Big Nose George was hung, (pg. 23); 3rd & Front (N. E. Corner to Alley) includes notes on Frank Blake, Rawlins School; 3rd & Cedar, South East Corner, Moose Hall originally North Star Lodge; 215 West Cedar, Strand Theatre; 214 West Cedar-Frank M Johnson Motor Co. originally; 208 West Cedar, H. Larsen; Union Pacific Depot built in 1901; Wyoming's Frontier Prison, Walnut Street between 3rd & 7th Streets;
Walking Tour Brochure History by Dan Kinnaman. Includes: Carbon County Courthouse (400 Block of Pine Street); 300 block of Pine Street-Jeffrey Center; 3rd & Pine, St. Joseph's Catholic Church; 4th & Buffalo, Elks Lodge; Ferris Hotel, S. E. Corner of Buffalo and 4th Streets; 310 West Pine; Carbon Building; City Offices, Buffalo & 6th; Miller and Daley Buildings; Rawlins Police Dept. S. E. Corner of Buffalo and 5th Streets; This corner was site of James Candlish Blacksmith Shop; 5th & Cedar, Hugus-Ferguson Building; First National Bank; Leo Keller Building; Northwest Corner of Cedar & 4th; Hansen Mercantile Co. Building, N. E. Corner of Cedar and 4th;311 West Cedar-Odd Fellows Building; N. W. Corner of Cedar and Third Streets Lincoln Highway Garage;
Blake House; Osborne Building; N. E. Corner of North Front and 5th-Post Office; H. C. Hall & Co.; Present day Wyoming Bar, 415 West Front; 416 W. Cedar-built by James Clause; 410 West Cedar; SW corner of Cedar & 4th-constructed to replace Masonic Lodge that burned in 1935 (picture #28 in brochure);
120 4th- H. Hansen Jewelry, Palace Candy; 118 4th, Sweetland business of Jake Waeckerlin,;114 4th, # 32, site of Brunswick Hotel; 121 4th, Carbon County Journal; Charles Anderson Building; Rasmusson building; Old Sundin Garage-304-308 West Cedar; 3rd & Cedar, France Presbyterian Church; NE Corner of North Front and 3rd, lot was site of original Odd Fellows Hall, Big Nose George was hung from a pole on this corner; N. E. Corner of North Front and 3rd Street, Union Pacific Railroad Co.-Frank Blake lived on property till burned, 1880, site of Railroad employee Club; and north third of lot was site of 1 room public school til 1874 til moved to site #20; SE Corner of Cedar and 3rd, Moose Hall, formerly North Star Lodge, etc.; Strand; 214 West Cedar; F. M. Johnson's Ford Dealership; H. Larsen, 208 West Cedar; 400 West Front, Union Pacific Depot; South Front Street information, Alamo; William Granger; Round House, depot, hotel-eating house after 1873, #46.
Information sheet on Wyoming's Frontier Prison; Historic Downtown Rawlins Walking Tour Booklet, 1994 (Rans has notes placed throughout this booklet); A 1992 version of a printed walking tour with notes throughout the document, noting that much of the information is incorrect; Two handdrawn street maps noting location so blocks, streets, and buildings with their names for the downtown walking tour guide;
An article on Capitol Hill taken from Carbon County Journal; Rans handwritten notes on the Ferris Mansion, Shrine Temple, Courthouse block, and the Jeffrey Center; Notes from Dan Kinnaman with additional writing by Rans on various businesses and churches in Rawlins;
Photocopies of newspaper showing R. A. Smiley home, A. McMicken, A. M. Startzell, (Merrell) homes and Wallace Pioneer Grocery, L. Schalk's Book Store; France Building, Rawlins, with articles; Notes on Carbon Building;
Additional Information and corrections to Walking Tour Brochure by Rans Baker includes typed pages of corrections or more information on almost entire walking tour brochure. Rans lists sources for information including deeds, newspaper articles.
Correspondence with consultants for National Register of downtown Rawlins sites to Linda Smith, includes map; Map of City of Rawlins Improvement District with streets to be improved marked; Correspondence with Linda Smith of Landmark Committee re: salary and revision. (4 letters).Collection
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