In 1860, Orlando Blood opened Blood's Hotel in Saranac Lake. Blood first leased it from John J. Miller, who had built it. He bought it along with eighty acres in 1865 for $2,115. In 1886, lumberjack and guide Wallace Murray purchased the hotel and changed the name to the Riverside Inn. The Riverside Inn contained 61 bedrooms, exclusive of those occupied by family and servants. Mark Twain occasionally sat on the shaded veranda. The dining room could seat 130, a large accommodation for the time.
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Rosli Hotel – The Rosli Hotel was located on Bridge Street at Cataract Avenue, between the Elgin House and Windsor Hotel. It was built in 1856 by Gaspard Rosli, who came to Canada from Switzerland in 1855. The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1869 and rebuilt; this structure is sometimes referred to as the "New Rosli." With its 21 rooms, the Rosli Hotel was considered to be the "coziest and most homelike hotel in Niagara Falls." It was called the Rosli Hotel until 1928, after which point it was known as the McAllister Hotel (after the then owner, W. C.
Rossin House Hotel was a mid-19th century hotel located at the southeast corner of King Street and York Street in Toronto, Canada. The original structure was built in 1856-1857 (corner was occupied by Chewitt Building) and was destroyed by a fire and re-built in 1863. It was one of the city's pre-eminent hotels, with one 1866 guide claiming, "What the Fifth Avenue Hotel is to New York, and the Windsor is to Montreal, so the celebrated Rossin House is to Toronto."
New York City -- The Rossmore Hotel, on Broadway, between Forty-first and Forty-second Streets opened February 8th, 1876
Possible the same as Edward's Royal Cambridge Hotel although this does not seem to be related to George Street.
The Royal Poinciana Hotel was a Gilded Age hotel in Palm Beach, Florida, United States. Developed by Standard Oil founder Henry Flagler and approximately 1,000 workers, the hotel opened on February 11, 1894. As Flagler's first structure in South Florida, the Royal Poinciana Hotel played a significant role in the region's history, transforming the previously desolate area into a winter tourist destination and accelerating the development of Palm Beach and West Palm Beach.
It opened in 1885 and was a Gothic building designed by James J. Egan. It was funded by a millionaire gold and silver miner named Dennis Ryan. The building was demolished in 1962 for a surface parking lot. An office tower was built on the site circa 1980.
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Schloss Hotel, Heidelberg, Germany
The castle hotel in Heidelberg was from 1873 to 1964 intermittently a hotel . In a location-dominant location above the Hortus Palatinus of the Heidelberg Castle , it was once one of the best houses on the square, which accommodated numerous prominent guests. Even Empress Sissi , Richard Wagner and Mark Twain were guests here. After the end of the hotel business, the building served until 2000 as an international study center of the University of Heidelberg . Since 2009, a residential complex of apartment complexes has been built on the site of the building.
The Shelbourne Hotel is a historic hotel in Dublin, Ireland, situated in a landmark building on the north side of St Stephen's Green.
Shepheard's Hotel was the leading hotel in Cairo and one of the most celebrated hotels in the world from the middle of the 19th century until it was burned down in 1952 in the Cairo Fire. Five years after the original one was destroyed, a new hotel was built nearby and named the Shepheard Hotel.
At the same site as the first hotel, Francis Cornwall Sherman built a new structure, breaking ground on May 1, 1860, and opening the new structure to guests on July 1, 1861.[3] The structure was designed by William W.
Southern Hotel St. Louis, Missouri
The Southern Hotel was a historic hotel located at the corner of 4th Street and Walnut Street and stretching between 4th and 5th Streets in St. Louis, Missouri. The building was built at the location of the Old Southern Hotel which burned in 1877. This 1877 hotel fire and the loss of life that occurred here made this the worst hotel disaster in St. Louis history. The new Southern Hotel had white marble, extensive fresco work, a rotunda, and a wide promenade. The hotel was owned by Robert G.
This photo from Detroit Publishing Company shows Duluth’s Spalding Hotel at 428 W. Superior St. The elegant 200-room hotel opened on June 6, 1889 and was demolished on Sept. 25, 1963.
St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans
A larger hotel [the second building] was rebuilt at a cost of $800,000. Barker retained very little interest in the hotel, and took no part in the rebuilding. The second hotel opened in January 1853, during a time of political strife between 1851 and 1861, but became a highly successful venture. A British visitor of 1858 noted of the building, with accommodations for 1,000: "This hotel is a monster."
In 1859 Broadway near Madison Square saw the opening of two magnificent new hotels. Amos R. Eno opened his Fifth Avenue Hotel, which engulfed the block front from 23rd Street to 24th, on August 23, 1859. But his was not the first. By January that year another white marble had opened, the St. James.
The Tepfer House, Keokuk.—On our way to Athens last Sunday, we were induced to stop over night at the Tepfer House, on the corner of Third and Johnson streets. Mr. J. H. Tepfer, formerly of the "Deming,” is the gentlemanly proprietor. This is probably the largest and finest hotel building on the river above St. Louis. It occupies over a half block, and is five tall stories high. It is fitted up with all the modern improvements, and furnished on a grand and magnificient scale, which makes it rank among the foremost hotels in the country.
The first hotel on the site was the Continental Hotel, built from 1857 to 1860.[4] The first hotel on the site was the Continental Hotel, built from 1857 to 1860.[4] The 700-room, six-story hotel was designed in the Italianate style by architect John McArthur Jr., who also designed the Philadelphia City Hall.[5] The luxurious hotel boasted one of the first elevators in the country, and a grand stairway made from polished Italian marble. Its main entrance was redesigned by noted Philadelphia architect Frank Furness in 1876.
The 1907 structure replaced some brownstone residences and the once-fashionable Hotel Brunswick, a series of three connected buildings remodeled by Henry Hobson Richardson in 1870-71.
The Tifft House, once among the most luxurious hotels in Buffalo, located on the east side of Main Street between Mohawk Street and Lafayette Square from 1865 until its demolition in 1903 to make way for the new home of the William Hengerer Company department store. A clue to the date of the photograph is found in the advertisement for Geneva Mineral Water on the awning at far left, which was bottled beginning in 1894. The Lafayette Court Building occupies the site today.
Volcano House is the name of a series of historic hotels built at the edge of Kīlauea, within the grounds of Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park on the Island of Hawai'i. The original 1877 building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and now houses the Volcano Art Center. The hotel in use today was built in 1941 and expanded in 1961.