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Front view of Theodore Stremme's Store in Gypsum, Colorado. Three women and a man are facing the camera, standing on the boardwalk. An automobile with passengers is at the right of the building.
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The J. P. Oleson building after a second floor apartment fire in September 1918. This was the first home of J. P. Oleson. with the store on the firs floor. An automobile is at left.
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Lundgren's Warehouse was built by Adolph Lundgren and George Beale as part of the Lundgren Store. In addition to groceries and merchandise, Lundren and Beale ran a lumberyard and sold hardware. The warehouse building later burned down.
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Lundgren's Store was built in 1900. It was the first two-story building in Gypsum. The upstairs was used as a school.
5) Miss Daggett
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"Miss Daggett" outside the general store in Gypsum. O.W. Daggett and his wife, Harriet Patterson Daggett, had four daughters. This may be daughter Harriette as the other women married: Elizabeth P. Couey, Eleanor D. Nesbit, Emma Lou Palmer.
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Three women and a child standing in front of a General merchandise store (possibly Olson's) in Gypsum.
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Lucinda Hanke portraying Julia Stremme during the Gypsum Cemetery Tour July 16, 2011. The tour was sponsored by the Town of Gypsum in celebration of Gypsum's Centennial, held July 9-17, 2011. The Porchlight Players, a local drama group, portrayed interesting citizens of the town buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery.
Julia Ann Kuhllman Stremme was born March 18, 1859, and died December 31, 1935. She and her new husband, John Stremme, arrived in Gypsum...
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The interior of Stremme's Store with Theodore Stremme leaning on a counter. A "Welcome" banner is hanging from light fixtures. Merchandise cases are along both side walls. Stove is at the back center.
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Baseball played in the alley behind Stremme's store in Gypsum.
10) O. W. Daggett
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O. W. Daggett, standing in timber.
"Mr. Daggett came to Colorado in 1882, and was one of the first to homestead land in the Eagle river valley. He owned and operated the Red Rock ranch and the Daggett store in Gypsum until 1897, when he went to Fulford, as postmaster and store operator. ..Later he was employed in the Eagle river canon. ... In 1891 he started publication of the Holy Cross Trail, and continued the publication of that paper until 1940."...
11) Lundgren Store
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The Gypsum Valley Grocery on Railroad Avenue was the original Lundgren Store. Adolph Lundgren immigrated from Sweden in 1907 and started the store in 1912. After Adloph died in 1916, wife Anna and daughter Minnie Lundgren continued the store. In 1920, George Beale became a partner and the name changed to "Beale and Lundgren." In 1930, Beale left and it was operated by Minnie and her brother Elmer.
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The front of the W. J. Riley Co., General Merchandise. There are eight men standing on the boardwalk in front of the building. The man on the far right is holding a pitchfork.
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1st Street, Gypsum, looking north. J. P. Oleson's store is at left with men standing on the boardwalk in front of it. Continuing down the street are the Gypsum Bank, the Staup Hotel (which was later the Traveler's Hotel), the pool hall and at the end of the street, the Gypsum Depot. -- John Flynn, Jr., letter of Dec. 20, 1995
[Title supplied from catalog prepared by the Eagle County Historical Society.]
