American Hotel at 16th and Blake Streets in the 1860's built after the "great fire" of 1863


The cover at right bears an advertising corner card of Kiskadden & Trowbridge, Commission Merchants of Leavenworth City, Kansas. A "J. Kiskadden" is listed as having been one of the merchants who was burned out in the Denver "great fire" of 1863. The fire burnt an area bounded by Sixteenth, Market and Wazee Streets and Cherry Creek.