Hotel Colorado

Hotel Colorado is a built in 1893 in the Italianate style building in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. It is one of the oldest hotels in this state of the United States. The design of the hotel dates designed by Edward Lippincott Tilton.

History

The given of the silver magnate and banker Walter Devereux commissioned building is a replica of the Villa Medici in Rome. Construction began in 1891 and cost U.S. $ 350,000 (currently about 9.611 million U.S. dollars). Among the materials procured locally include the creme brick and sandstone from Peach Blow; more than 10,000 square meters of carpet and 2,000 rose bushes had been brought in by rail. The Hotel Colorado opened on June 10, 1893 with a ceremony that included fireworks, a concert of the orchestra in the ballroom and a midnight dinner for the 600 participating guests.

The hotel soon became a popular retreat in the summer and earned the nickname "the little White House of the West" after Theodore Roosevelt and William Howard Taft longer time spent here. Supposedly, the Teddy Bear was invented here, as in 1905 during Roosevelt's visit to a landlady of the hotel the President showed a bear was stitched together from various scraps of fabric.

During the Second World War, the United States Navy leased the hotel from 1942 for use as a hospital. The U.S. Naval Convalescent Hospital was put into service on July 5, 1943 and served until the end of 1945, more than 6500 patients. The hospital was closed in 1946. Since then the building is again used as a hotel.

Famous visitors

The actor Tom Mix, his wife and some members of the film crew were accommodated in the summer of 1926 during the filming of the movie The Great K & A Train Robbery here.

Apart from the visits of the two already mentioned President Roosevelt and Taft and Herbert Hoover was a guest and held on August 2, 1939, a lunch.