75 S 3rd St

75 S 3rd St is one of the older homes in town, built in 1888. According to records, the original structure on the lot belonging to C.H. Scheu, may have burned in the town fire of 1893. This home was moved from the mining camp near the Marion mine sometime before 1905. The camp, west of Carbondale, employed 231 miners and was the largest of three in the area; it had numerous homes and several community buildings. The mine was shut down in 1895. Homeowners of note over the years include Price Wickliffe, James Legget, and Frank Dempke. This Late Victorian wood frame house is a typical form found in many local mining camps, and the original portion of the home is the "box shape" with a central door. The impulse to relocate the structure from the closed mine site shows the entrepreneurial sensibility of at least one of the early inhabitants.

Late Victorian

Town of Carbondale 2005 Architectural Survey (Reid Architects, Inc.)

carbondalegov.org

Carbondale Historical Society