244 W. 3rd Street

Built in 1909, this was the Palisade Branch of the Grand Junction Fruit Growers Association. Though the marketing cooperative's name changed over the years, it used the Mountain Lion brand label. In 1971, fire destroyed the platforms west of the building where boxes of packed fruit were loaded into refrigerated railcars and later, refrigerated semi-trucks. After the Mountain Lion cooperative merged with the United Fruit Growers, this building became a residence and then it was vacant for more than a decade. It was never a depot.