# Cliff House

- URL: https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/cliff-house/
- Also known as: Byron H. Phillips's hotel and store
- Kind: Stores, hotels and other businesses before 1950
- Status: Historic or vanished
- County: El Paso County, Colorado
- Point: 39.1189, -104.9192 (from a cited description (good to a few hundred feet))

- Updated: 2026-10-06

## What we know

Byron H. Phillips's hotel, with his store across the corner; as town treasurer he kept the town's money in the store until 1894. The Cliff House burned on April 11, 1896 (El Paso County Democrat, April 18, 1896) and the store about the same time (Sabin, S-0019, pp. 35, 72, 107).

## Where it was

The Cliff House and the Phillips store stood 'on opposite corners of the intersection at High Street and South Valley Road' (McFarling's note in Sabin, S-0019, p. 107 n. 6); that junction in OpenStreetMap (2026-10-06). Which corner each stood on is not known. Good to a few hundred feet.

Placed from a written description, such as a land section, a distance from a landmark or an old survey note.

## Nearby

- [Wilson's Store and Bakery](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/wilsons-store-and-bakery/): 0.0 mi northeast
- [Pillsbury Store](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/pillsbury-store/): 0.0 mi west
- [Estemere](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/estemere/): 0.1 mi northwest
- [Rocky Mountain Chautauqua grounds](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/rocky-mountain-chautauqua-grounds/): 0.2 mi south
- [Santa Fe section foreman's house](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/santa-fe-section-foremans-house/): 0.2 mi northeast
- [Little Log Church](https://palmerdivideresearch.com/places/little-log-church/): 0.2 mi north

Source numbers (S-0000) refer to https://palmerdivideresearch.com/sources/. Compiled by Michael Christensen for Palmer Divide Research; CC BY 4.0.