26 S. 3rd Street

The present-day property consists of four lots; all the lots were purchased in 1888 from the Carbondale Town & Land Company by different individuals. The original buildings – Dinkel’s store housing the Bank of Carbondale and the Williams Hotel (which appeared frequently in early newspapers but was gone by the time the 1912 Sanborn map was made) – both burned down in the fire of 1891. The current building, designed in the Late Victorian architectural style, was constructed on lots 11 and 12 in approximately 1904. This building is thought to be one of the first blacksmith shops in Carbondale. Some sources place Hugh O. Pattison (b. 1864 in Indiana) as the operator of the blacksmith shop; he was listed in the 1900 census working as a blacksmith. The 1973 interview with Cleone Oliver mentioned Benjamin F. Baker (b. 1856 in New York) operating out of the shop owned by W. M. Dinkel Company and thought Pattison’s shop was on the corner of 4th and Main, one block west. Benjamin Baker appeared in the 1910 census as a blacksmith.

Lot 11 was originally owned by James K. Robinson and lot 12 was owned by D. E. Tatham who sold to W. E. Johnson; by the end of 1887, both lots 11 and 12 were owned by J. K. Robinson & Company. In 1899 James K. Robinson & Company sold both lots to W. M. Dinkel. The sale came with an interest in the Bank of Carbondale, which has been assumed to have been in Dinkel’s store, on this lot. The other two lots were the site of the Williams Hotel, which appeared frequently in early newspapers but was gone by the time the 1912 Sanborn map was made. The hotel and the bank, located in Dinkel’s store, were both burned in the fire of 1891. By 1917, Dinkel transferred ownership to his wife Sally A. Dinkel. She remarried after his death in 1918 and was known as Sally A. Tichenor. She sold the property in 1947 to Albert Risbon who sold two weeks later to Ernest Diemoz, who held the property until 1955.  Diemoz sold the property to Herbert M & Harriet C. Evans. Harriet died in 1969 and Herbert sold the property to Paul & Virginia Lappala.  The Lappalas sold to Chris T. and Terry L. Chacos in 1989.  They continue to own the property under the name CT & TL Chacos LLP; the Chacos have operated the current restaurant since 1975.

The accumulation of additions and the alterations to the principal opening have impacted the integrity of the building, however the original form, materials, and window pattern are clearly visible. Overall, the integrity has been somewhat compromised by alterations.

From 2010 Carbondale Historical Society Walking Tour: “As small as Carbondale was in the 1890s, it had many blacksmith shops, and this building was one of the first. Note the anvil by the main entrance, like one used by Hugh Pattison, one of the early occupants. “There were hitchin’ racks on the north side,” remembered Mrs. Cleone Oliver, an old timer.”

Town of Carbondale Downtown Survey Project, 2006, Reid Architects, Inc., Manuscript on file, History Colorado, Denver, Colorado

Carbondalegov.org

Carbondale Historic Society