Hotel Colorado
| Hotel Colorado | |||
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| National Register of Historic Places | |||
 Partial view of the Hotel Colorado hidden behind trees |
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| location | Glenwood Springs , Garfield County , Colorado | ||
| Coordinates | 39 ° 33 '3.1 " N , 107 ° 19' 28.9" W | ||
| Built | 1893 | ||
| architect | Edward Lippincott Tilton | ||
| Architectural style | Italianate style | ||
| NRHP number | 77000376 | ||
| The NRHP added | May 26, 1977 | ||
Hotel Colorado is an Italianate-style structure built in 1893 in Glenwood Springs , Colorado . It is one of the oldest hotels in this state of the United States . The hotel was designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton .
history
The building, commissioned by the silver magnate and banker Walter Devereux, is a replica of the Villa Medici in Rome. The construction began in 1891 and cost 350,000 US dollars (today approximately 10.127 million US dollars). Building materials sourced on site include the cream-colored bricks and peach blow sandstone; More than 10,000 square meters of carpet and 2,000 rose bushes were brought in by train. The Hotel Colorado opened on June 10, 1893 with a ceremony that included fireworks, an orchestra concert in the ballroom, and a midnight dinner for the approximately 600 attending guests.
The hotel soon became a popular summer retreat and was nicknamed " the little White House of the West " after Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft stayed here for a long time. It is said that the teddy bear was invented here when, during Roosevelt's visit in 1905, a chambermaid at the hotel showed the President a bear that had been sewn together from various scraps of fabric.
During the Second World War , the United States Navy rented the hotel from 1942 for use as a hospital. The U.S. Naval Convalescent Hospital entered service on July 5, 1943 and was serving more than 6,500 patients by the end of 1945. The hospital was closed in 1946. Since then, the building has been used as a hotel again. On May 26, 1977, the Hotel Colorado was added to the National Register of Historic Places .
Famous visitors
Actor Tom Mix , his wife and some of the film crew stayed here in the summer of 1926 while the film The Great K & A Train Robbery was being made.
In addition to the stays of the two previously mentioned Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, Herbert Hoover was also a guest here and hosted a lunch on August 2, 1939.
literature
- Kathy Rippy Fleming [1995]: Apparition Manor: True Ghost Stories of the Hotel Colorado ( English ). Twin Aspen, New Castle, CO, OCLC 51564297 .
- Janet Koelling, Kerry Koepping [2001]: Hotel Colorado: Fountains of Enchantment ( English ). Hotel Colorado Nonprofit Museum Corp, Glenwood Springs, CO., ISBN 0967359406 , OCLC 50327186 .
supporting documents
- ↑ Willa Soncarty: Glamor came to Glenwood with Hotel Colorado opening (English) , Glenwood Springs Post Independent. April 26, 2002. Retrieved June 23, 2009.
- ^ Hotel Colorado on the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed July 29, 2017.
Web links
- Hotel Colorado Hotel website