At this corner, the Low Line electric streetcar turned from Victor Avenue onto North 3rd Street on its route to the Independence Mine and around Battle Mountain, carrying miners to work in the early 1900s for a nickel. Up North 3rd Street, the Baltimore Hotel at 111 North 3rd Street was Victor’s largest hotel in 1911, a three-story building with 50 large rooms, home-like furnishings, guest dining facilities, a commercial dining room, and a German Beer Hall operated by Charles Bosick and John Bindscaedler that offered cigars, imported wines, cheeses, sardines, caviar, whiskies, brandy, and beers to professional men. After the great fire of 1899, D.H. Moffat helped secure rebuilding of the Post Office Block, chiefly because it housed the Bank of Victor, where he and John T. Milliken later used their financial position to help topple the Woods family empire and buy underfinanced pieces of it; A.E. Carlton eventually became owner of the bank. In 1900 the building also contained the Post Office, a newsstand, and Shillings Dry Goods Company, later included J.C. Penny’s, and upstairs housed offices for H.T. Corbin, Charles D. Gurney, John V. Ducey, J. Wallace Collins, and later Dr. Harry Thomas, father of Lowell Thomas. The Cripple Creek and Victor Mining Company completed an extensive renovation of the building in 1997, and its first-floor bank area and entire second floor serve as the company’s administration offices. In 1900, the lavish Monarch Saloon occupied the large gallery area of this building, retaining its original hand-painted tin ceiling, with whiskey sold in bottles embossed with proprietor W.S. Sexton’s name, private clubrooms, and a large second-floor gambling hall for its high-class clientele; its bartenders included M.J. Sweeney in 1896 and C.F. Kissel and Sam Red Fern in 1900. Other storefronts in the Monarch Block housed Small Jewelers, Simonton Insurance and Real Estate, and on the 3rd Street side a mining stockbroker, while the building’s 1899 construction date appears on the southeast corner parapet above decorative modillions and second-story windows with beveled-leaded glass transoms.