The Ladies Aid Hall in Yampa, Colorado was built as a saloon on Moffat Avenue in 1902. The building was bought by the Red Cross and established as the hall. The building was moved to its present location on First Street by a pack of mules in 1912. The move took one year. At one point in time the hall was also Yampa’s only movie house. The Woodmen of the World owned the building for awhile and sold the building to the Ladies Aid in 1926 for $1,200. The Ladies Aid society makes the building avalible for public meetings.
The Ladies Aid Hall was once located on Moffat Avenue, but now it is located on First Street between Main Street and Lincoln Avenue. This building has a false front on a gabled roof with overlapping white wooden siding all the way down. The facade has two big sash windows and an enclosed entrance. There is a high small attic window on the front also. The east and west walls have white overlapping wooden siding that goes almost all the way to the ground. On the west wall there are 4 high windows and one low window. On the east wall there is one high window all the way back. The gabled roof is covered in tin.
Information gathered with the help of Hildred Fogg of the Yampa Egeria Museum by Cindy and Trevor at Soroco High School, April 2005
|