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Silver Heels Tavern

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1920s. 11 Main St.

The full-width front porch of the Silver Heels Tavern is part of a one-story horizontal shiplap facade on a stuccoed cinderblock building forming a balustraded false balcony. The false front has Carpenter's Gothic brackets supporting a modest board cornice with a central pediment. A plank floor, balcony, and old-fashioned high-back booths under a pressed metal ceiling embellish the interior. Silver Heels, a legendary prostitute with a heart of gold, nursed local miners through a smallpox epidemic.

Writing Credits

Author: 
Thomas J. Noel
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What's Nearby

Alma Fire House and Mining Museum
Town Hall (Alma Schoolhouse)
Buckskin Joe
South Park City Museum
Park County Library (Park County Courthouse and Jail)

Citation

Thomas J. Noel, "Silver Heels Tavern", [Alma, Colorado], SAH Archipedia, eds. Gabrielle Esperdy and Karen Kingsley, Charlottesville: UVaP, 2012—, http://sah-archipedia.org/buildings/CO-01-PK08.

Print Source

Buildings of Colorado, Thomas J. Noel. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997, 215-215.

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