This image shows a young August Klahn sitting in front of his family home on Durango’s East Park Avenue in the 1880s. The woman standing next to him is identified as his mother, Mrs. Sophia Schluter. August was born in 1873. His mother brought him and his brothers Emil and Henry from a previous marriage, to Durango with her husband, Fred Schluter, in 1882. They started Schluter Floral. Mr. Schluter died in 1911, and Sophia ran the floral company until her death in 1933 when August took over as sole proprietor. He died in 1938. This house was originally located at 356 East Park Ave. and was later moved to 394 East Park. The railroad bridge seen to right is the same one that today crosses the Animas River near 15th Street, near the Durango Fish Hatchery. – Ed Horvat for Animas Museum, edhorvat@animasmuseum.org (Catalog Number: 22.24.2 from the La Plata County Historical Society Photo Collections- colorized)
This image shows a young August Klahn sitting in front of his family home on Durango’s East Park Avenue in the 1880s. The woman standing next to him is identified as his mother, Mrs. Sophia Schluter. August was born in 1873. His mother brought him and his brothers Emil and Henry from a previous marriage, to Durango with her husband, Fred Schluter, in 1882. They started Schluter Floral. Mr. Schluter died in 1911, and Sophia ran the floral company until her death in 1933 when August took over as sole proprietor. He died in 1938. This house was originally located at 356 East Park Ave. and was later moved to 394 East Park. The railroad bridge seen to right is the same one that today crosses the Animas River near 15th Street, near the Durango Fish Hatchery. – Ed Horvat for Animas Museum, [email protected] (Catalog Number: 22.24.2 from the La Plata County Historical Society Photo Collections- colorized)