501 N Foote Clinic
Founders: The El Paso County Health Department
Type: Healthcare
Address: 501 N Foote.
Purpose: To provide STI testing and screenings.
Founded: May 12, 1957
Closed:
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Opened in 1957. It was the address of the El Paso County Health Department starting in the 1970's. In the 1980's, it is frequently advertised and referenced in issues of Gayspeak as a confidential and safe place that LGBTQ+ people could go for STI testing. Interestingly, it is not named as the El Paso County Health Department building, just 501 N Foote, across all of its advertisements in the local gay publications. [2]
Starting July 15, 1985, the clinic started to offer testing for HIV/AIDS, alongside 7 other clinics across the state. [3]
Photos
Google Street view of 501 N Foote in 2017, a building tucked behind Memorial Hospital.
Key Dates
| - July 15, 1985: The 501 N Foote STI clinic starts to offer testing for HIV/AIDS, alongside 7 other clinics across the state of Colorado. |
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Questions
References
Colorado Springs Gazette. “Open House Planned Today at New Health Building.” May 12, 1957. PPLD Digital Collections. https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/220310. ↩︎
Pikes Peak Gay Community Center, Gayspeak, June 1986 (June 1986). PPLD Digital Collections, accessed 17/12/2025, https://digitalcollections.ppld.org/nodes/view/998936 ↩︎
The Rocky Mountain News. “AIDS-Linked Virus Target of State Tests.” July 16, 1985. Colorado Historic Newspapers Collection. https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19850716-01.2.245. ↩︎