105 Canon Street
#39 on walking tour
Built ca. 1870 A home and blacksmith shop until 1875. Dr. Frank Luce lived here in about 1922. From 1945 to 1973 it was a Mexican Restaurant, El Gallo Tuerto, one of the first in the Denver area.
Additions were made over the years. For many years, the property was the Horton House Bed & Breakfast, but it burned in 2015. A new private residence was built on the site.
According to research by Lorene Horton, this site was occupied as a residence and blacksmith shop by Godfrey Krause December 27, 1875 (date of deed in Abstract). Adam S. Schrock bought the whole block, which was a stagecoach house, the livery and carriage house, and the dwelling, for $4,750 in 1882. James Abbo acquired the property in 1887. After Abbo’s death in 1922, Dr. Frank Luce bought it.
2025 photo- New House 2023/2024, private residence.
2024 Begin intensive landscaping on west side of lot.
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