Saguache, Colorado
West Side of Main Street - Dallas Block
The empty lot just south of the present Saguache Hotel is
where the Otto Mears Hotel was located. It was torn down in 1910.
The adobe building was originally the location of the partnership store
of Isaac Gotthelf and Otto Mears, known as “Gotthelf and Mears”.
A few years later Leopold Mayer bought out Mears’ interest and it was then
known as “Gotthelf and Mayer”. These partners later moved the store
to another location, further north, in the Dunn Block. Their new
mercantile business was said to have been the largest and most complete
store in the San Luis Valley.
 
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