Structures of the type Hotel
Colonial Hotel, Cape May New Jersey
Date added:November 12, 2009
I have very limited information on this hotel. It was built in 1894-1894. It is three stories plus attic and raised basement. It has octagonal towers with tent roofs that flank the entrance. It's roof is a mansard roof with gabled dormers. The south wing of the hotel was added in 1905.
More...Hotel Metropole & Broadway Theater, Denver Colorado
Date added:January 17, 2010
The Metropole was a significant 1890's luxury hotel, designed by an unrenowned architect from Chicago, Colonel J.W, Wood. It is distinguished by its Richardsonian Romanesque revival west facade and grand and theatrical presence in the streetscape.
Built in 1891, it was boasted by the Colorado Graphic as one of the first "fireproof" hotels in the country, employing hollow clay fired tile units for all partitions, floors, ceilings, and walls. Part of the hotel was the Broadway Theatre (heralded by the Colorado Graphic as the first fireproof theatre in the West), an ornate vaudeville showhouse, whose interior was decorated in East Indian themes. The Metropole was recognized as one of the three grand hotels in Denver at the turn of the century, along with the Windsor Hotel and Brown Palace Hotel.
More...Mt. Evans Crest House, Idaho Springs Colorado
Date added:January 24, 2010
The Mt. Evans Crest House represents the highest business structure in the United States, Located at the summit of Mt. Evans, at 14,260 feet, this structure is one of the oldest architectural features at such an altitude. The Mt. Evans Crest House not only represents very unusual architecture, but it also is at the top of the highest paved automobile road in America. The Mt. Evans Crest House, until it burned in 1979, was a significant architectural design in a very unusual location.
The Mt, Evans Crest House, located at an altitude of 14,260 feet above sea level on the summit of Mt. Evans, Colorado, was built in 1939-1941, just prior to World War II, by Justus "Gus" Roehllng. The structure was designed by Denver architect Edwin A. Francis who created a building that incorporated the rugged, above-timberline environment with a tourist attraction where some 100,000 visitors a year could overlook the plains of Colorado to the east and the Continental Divide to the west.
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Northern Hotel, Wausau Wisconsin
Plymouth Place (Cory Hotel), Denver Colorado
West House, Minneapolis Minnesota