Alumni Meeting - The Emma Malaby Grocery

Buildings are containers of history and the Emma Malaby Grocery is no exception. From its early life as a photography studio on N. College to its later role as a neighborhood grocery and woodyard on N. Meldrum, this unassuming little building holds a big story. The building’s first days were in a small frontier town that was just starting to make something of itself. Over time the town grow and the building moved over the tracks to a lower-income neighborhood that included our earliest African-American community and later became the Holy Family Neighborhood. A tragic murder-suicide changed the path of the grocery’s story. And then, during WWII, the grocery shut down and the building has been boarded up. Now owned by Historic Larimer County, it is about to begin a whole new chapter.