COLONIAL HOTEL - Springfield
N 37° 12.525 W 093° 17.406
15S E 474258 N 4118069
The Historic Colonial Hotel Springfield Missouri
Waymark Code: WM1J91
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 05/17/2007
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The Colonial Hotel was constructed at 205 South Jefferson Avenue.
At the southwest corner of St. Louis and Jefferson in 1907.
The six-story building became the main place in Springfield to have social events and political meetings.
The hotel was the finest Hotel in southwest Missouri.
It was the first building constructed with a steel frame in Springfield and was thus an important element in Springfield's architectural history.
The most devastating thing that happened to the Colonial Hotel was the closing of Business Route 66.
To create a pedestrian mall and the design of a loop and one-way streets to get traffic around the area.
When this happened in the early 1970s every parking space belonging to the Colonial Hotel was removed and several blocks of Route 66 were closed to traffic.