The 1889 Main Avenue Furnishings Building (once home to the Balthasar Kern Saloon and more recently -- in 2015 -- the Animas Trading Co. store) in Durango, the seat of La Plata County in southern Colorado. The town was organized in September 1881 by the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad (D&RG) to serve the San Juan mining district. Photo by Carol Highsmith.