Brown Palace Hotel
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| location | Denver , Colorado | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 44 '38.8 " N , 104 ° 59' 16.2" W | ||
| Built | 1892 | ||
| architect | Frank E. Edbrooke | ||
| NRHP number | 70000157 | ||
| The NRHP added | April 28, 1970 | ||
The Brown Palace Hotel is considered the oldest hotel in Denver , Colorado . It was built by Henry C. Brown in 1892. The striking building made of red granite and sandstone with its eight-story atrium was designed by the architect Frank E. Edbrooke .
It was supposed to offer the "better society" of Denver, mostly rich in gold and silver deposits of the Rockies, an elegant meeting place that could compete with the noble hotels on the east coast.
The first US President to stay at the hotel was Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 . "Unsinkable" Molly Brown stayed here just a week after the Titanic sank . Other well-known personalities, including Sun Yat-sen , the first President of the Chinese Republic , as well as US Presidents Woodrow Wilson , Harry S. Truman , Warren G. Harding , William Howard Taft and Dwight D. Eisenhower were among the guests. Eisenhower even used it as headquarters in the 1952 primary campaign.
In 1911 the hotel became the scene of a legendary criminal case in which Frank Henwood shot and killed the balloonist pioneer Sylvester Louis "Tony" von Phul (1878-1911) and accidentally killed George Copeland, an innocent bystander, in the hotel's "Marble Bar" . Henwood and von Phul had found themselves in a rivalry for the affection of Isabel Springer, wife of wealthy Denver businessman and political candidate John W. Springer. The killings culminated in a series of public trials that attracted attention across the country.
The Brown Palace Hotel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 28, 1970 .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Special to The New York Times .: WHAT MURDERED BY PHUL ?; Friends of St. Louis Man, Shot in Denver, Call Killing a Conspiracy. . May 27, 1911. Retrieved July 31, 2018.
- ↑ Dick Kreck: Murder at the Brown Palace: A True Story of Seduction and Betrayal . Fulcrum Publishing, January 1, 2016, ISBN 978-1-55591-872-9 , pp. 32ff.
- ^ Debra Faulkner: Ladies of the Brown: A Women's History of Denver's Most Elegant Hotel . Arcadia Publishing Incorporated, December 3, 2010, ISBN 978-1-61423-636-8 , pp. 48-.
- ↑ Brown Palace Hotel on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 29, 2017.