The Historic Emerson Buckingham Building

06/02/2023

We hope you're out celebrating with a tray full of delicious potato donuts from !

They're stocked up with a big variety today, and are giving out free samples of their Dole Whip dessert with every purchase of two or more 🍩🍩

Find them at 321 Main Street

08/06/2021

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02/10/2021

September 12, 1879, 80% of downtown Longmont burns. Longmont's worst fire starts in the bakery on the east side of Main Street, two buildings north of 3rd Street. The Emerson & Buckingham Bank building, the first brick building in Longmont, is undamaged, even though it's across the street from the bakery. Here's the headline from the Longmont Ledger that day. Immediately after the fire, the President of the E&B Bank, William Buckingham, purchases the first fire wagon and all the fire uniforms for the City of Longmont.

01/15/2021

Here's how the Emerson Buckingham Building at 321 Main had been altered from its historic look. Hard to see the grandeur of this building in this photo, taken in 2015.

08/18/2020

During the restoration of the building, the original handwritten script lettering from the lumberyard was uncovered with the words "Buckingham" written on the wood beams. These photos were taken immediately after the construction crew discovered it.

08/14/2020

Photos by Sacred Wind Photography, LLC

08/04/2020

Some of the original discoveries during restoration were the original back wall of the bank, the covered-up skylight, the original tin ceiling tiles, the 1870's wood floors, the marble at the front of the bank that no one thought existed, the coal chutes, and the writing by the lumberyard of the beams that said "Buckingham" in charcoal script letters.

07/21/2020

One of the late 1800's ads run by the Emerson & Buckingham Bank. Note that Walter Buckingham's wife, Mary, is listed as one of the principles of the bank which means that this ad ran after 1881, the year Walter died.

07/20/2020

When we were almost done with the restoration of 321 Main, the Emerson Buckingham Building, Shay Castle did this story on our efforts:

When workers in Jon Schallert’s downtown Longmont business pried up the 140-year-old floors, they found an unpleasant surprise: layers of asbestos adhesive — black, sticky and toxic. Un…

07/20/2020

The first article that was done on the restoration of the Emerson Buckingham Building:

Given that their business often involves consulting with downtown businesses and business organizations, Jon and Peg Schallert of Longmont-based The Schallert Group have for years kept their eye on…