Rosse Bldg.
After the fire of 1912 destroyed the Cosmopolitan Hotel and adjacent buildings, Michel (Mike) Rosse and William A. Beebe partnered in the construction of this modest brick building. Initially it housed Rosse's wholesale Blairmore Liquor Company, renamed Rocky Mountain Wine and Spirits in 1914, but with the coming of Prohibition in 1916 Rosse's liquor business was closed and the building was leased as a pool hall. Rosse, a town councillor, turned to 'rum running', the illegal importation of alcohol from other jurisdictions. On one occasion police found jugs hidden beneath a roosting chicken on a Rosse-owned property, but ownership of the whiskey or the chicken could not be proved.
Later building occupants included Colombo's Coffee Shop in 1941, followed by the Java Shop, and Morency Plumbing and Heating in 1960.
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