Western Hotel - Glenwood Springs, CO
Posted by: Outspoken1
N 39° 32.842 W 107° 19.413
13S E 300348 N 4380100
This hotel was not a grand hotel for the wealthy, but rather accommodations for working class people.
Waymark Code: WMXR37
Location: Colorado, United States
Date Posted: 02/17/2018
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"The Western Hotel provided area residents, visitors, and guests with accommodations as a restaurant, saloon, soda bottling shop, grocery store and rooming house before operating as a working-class hotel. It operated as the Western Hotel beginning around 1925. Although the building dates to ca. 1887 with a restaurant occupying the one-story building, it was only in business for four years, the building was then vacant for at least eight years, reopening periodically, finally reopening as a saloon circa 1907, it continued as a commercial business thereafter. " (from (
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"The Western Hotel is locally significant under Criterion A in the area of Commerce for its long association with providing area residents, visitors, and guests with accommodations as a restaurant, saloon, soda bottling shop, grocery store and rooming house before operating as a working-class hotel. It operated as the Western Hotel beginning around 1925. Although the building dates to circa 1887 with a restaurant occupying the one-story building, it was only in business for four years, the building was then vacant for at least eight years, reopening periodically, finally reopening as a saloon circa 1907, it continued in as a commercial business thereafter. Therefore the period of significance begins circa 1907, the estimated date it was a saloon, and ends in 1966, in keeping with the National Register guidelines. Although the hotel continued operating until 2012, no significant events occurred after 1966." (From (
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There is an extensive article about the hotel at (
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