By the time of the 1940 Census, Sarah Jennings Vinke, age forty-five and widowed, had moved and was a guest in the Armstrong Hotel, Fort Collins, Colorado by April when the census was enumerated, along with many other guests and lodgers. She was recorded as having been, in 1935, living in Billings Montana, attended school in the previous month, and working for pay thirty-five hours per week, occupation teacher at a State College, and working forty-three weeks the previous year, and for this she earned $1935, and earned wages from other sources. Google Street View currently shows the front of Fort Collins’s Armstrong Hotel, as a medium size, three story brick building, with top two floors for guest rooms, and street level lined with shops, restaurants, and stores The Armstrong, on College Avenue, at the southern edge of the Ft Collins downtown business district, is North West of the center of Colorado State University campus, requiring some 12 blocks to walk between.
In an interview, Mr Henry Campbell (See his discussion this page), said that Sarah (~1943) had her piano, at Ft Collins. This would suggest that by then, she had moved to an apartment, or home, having more room than the Armstrong Hotel. Or perhaps back then, the Armstrong Hotel had several room suites, as it does now saying “accommodate a longer stay …. a kitchenette, full-sized stove, sink, kitchen accessories …. feel like a spacious studio apartment”. Sarah’s teaching at Colorado State continued, until she returned to Montana State U Bozeman as the Chair of English Department, in 1945.
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