This property was sold to Morris L. Gage for $2,500 in 1881 and the block was built for James B. Orman by the contractors Minum and Walley. In 1883, the Sanborn map showed a bookstore at 200 South Union Avenue, a grocery store and dentist at 202 South Union Avenue, and rooms for sleeping on the second floor at both addresses. James Orman arrived in Pueblo by mule train in 1868, was elected to the Colorado General Assembly in 1880, served in the Colorado Senate from 1881 to 1885, was Pueblo's mayor from 1897 to 1898, and in 1901 was elected governor of Colorado. Beginning with his contract with the Kansas Pacific Railroad between Sheridan, Colorado and Denver, Orman was involved in building nearly all the important Colorado railroads, including the Colorado Midland between Colorado Springs and Aspen, the Florence and Cripple Creek Road, and a considerable portion of the Colorado Springs and Cripple Creek Road for the Denver & Rio Grande. He was also president of the Bessemer Ditch Company, a member of the Pueblo Opera House Company, and held mining interests in Leadville, Ouray, Ashcroft, and Cottonwood Districts. The J. B. Orman Hose No. 1 at C Street and Victoria Avenue in South Pueblo was named for him, and his election as governor was credited to his role as the state's largest employer of laborers through his many enterprises. Orman died July 21, 1919. In August 1874, the South Pueblo Post Office was established, and by 1883 it was located at 200 South Union Avenue. A Pueblo folktale held that the Hanging Tree in the middle of Union Avenue was cut down because it obstructed Postmaster George Stimpson's view, and Thomas D. Worrall, who led a drive to remove Stimpson from office, mocked the tree's destruction in verse. The Audrey Ambrose family has owned this property for many years.