What we know
Built about 1892 by the Santa Fe for its Palmer Lake section foreman; given by the Santa Fe to the Palmer Lake Historical Society on April 3, 1961 and moved across the tracks next to the Town Hall that October; the community library and museum opened in it on Feb. 22, 1964, and it became town offices in 1982 when the Lucretia Vaile Library-Museum opened (Marian McDonough and Grace Best in Sabin, S-0019, pp. 114-15, 128; the library's cataloger gives 1962). It is the 1976 survey's 'library & museum' (B53); the town police station in 2026, per the library's cataloger (PPLD record of survey B53).
Where it was
54 Valley Crescent (PPLD record of survey photo B53), El Paso County parcel (county composite locator, 2026-10-05).
A street address, located with the county's address points.
Sources
Sources are named in the text above. Numbers such as S-0080 refer to our source list. Most newspaper quotations were read in the Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. Long quotations from recent books are shortened here.