Rio Grande Southern Hotel

Rio Grande Southern Hotel

Rio Grande Southern Hotel Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
1893, E. L. Wilbur. 101 S. 5th St. (southeast corner of Central Ave.) (NR)

This recently restored frame hotel consists of a two-story original structure with a smaller 1902 frame addition. It was stuccoed to comply with a new ordinance after a 1913 fire that claimed the hotel's ice-house and stables, along with other downtown buildings. The third-story gables retain their original bargeboard and wood shingles in an alternating square and fishscale pattern beneath a sunburst. In contrast to the Queen Anne facade, the other three walls are plain-Jane stuccoed planks.

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