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The Royal Hotel

16 Sunday Apr 2023

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Hotels, Ogden, utah, Weber County

The Royal Hotel
2522 Wall Avenue in Ogden, Utah

This building was constructed in 1914 and is historically significant for its long association with the early 20th century development of Ogden City’s transportation and railroad district. The Royal Hotel originally provided housing for blue collar railroad workers and travelers. In the 1920s and 1930s, the hotel provided housing to many of the Basque workers from the Pyrenees Region of France and Spain who had come to work in the wool and sheep industry which was largely dependent on rail transportation until the early 1940s. During the 1940s, the Royal became one of very few accommodations available to African-Americans, because of segregation. The hotel also served as an office for the black military police during World War II.

The Royal was constructed during a time in which this area was becoming a center for commerce, entertainment, and lodging. Several other hotels were also constructed around this same time including the Healy Hotel and the New Brigham Hotel, both of which are on Wall Avenue, and the Marion Hotel, Windsor Hotel, and Helena Hotel which are on 25th Street.

The contractor for the Hotel was George A. Whitmeyer and Sons, a prominent local builder and contractor, who had built many of Ogden’s important public buildings, schools, libraries, office buildings, hotels and residences. The first story provided space for shops and offices while residential rooms were found on the second and third stories. The building was one of the most modest hotels in the district in terms of size and design.

A later addition to the rear of the original building was a jai alai (hie-lie) court. This structure is similar in size to the hotel and was constructed between 1920 and 1930 to provide the Basque residents a place to play their native game, which loosely resembles squash played by two teams of two people. The jai alai court was an important tie to the culture and heritage identity of these Basque immigrants.

The Hotel is a three-story brick building with a flat roof. The exterior façade is a uniform reddish brown, and a common variegated red/brown/tan colored brick for the sides and rear walls. The lower front façade features three bays matching the second and third story bays. The center door bay is recessed with historic entry doors made of wood and aluminum. Above the center door is transom of pattern glass. The upper façade features a concrete sill above the second and third floor window panels with a broad, simple detailed overhanging cornice made of metal.

Broadway Hotel

29 Wednesday Mar 2023

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Historic Buildings, Hotels, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, utah

Broadway Hotel

1912, B. O. Mecklenburg

The Broadway Hotel is one of the dozen hotels built in downtown Salt Lake City shortly after the completion of the city’s two major rail depots. The building is most notable today for the portico on its southeast corner. This portico marks the entrance of the building and offers shelter to patrons standing on the sidewalk outside. Few such porticos now survive in Salt Lake City.

If you continue west on 300 South, look for the small one-story apartments in Wayne and Delmar Courts tucked behind the La France Apartments on the north side of the street. Built circa 1905, they were among Salt Lake City’s first apartments.

  • Bernard O. Mecklenburg
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Located at 222 West 300 South in Salt Lake City, Utah

Helper Furniture and Hardware

03 Thursday Nov 2022

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Carbon County, Furniture Stores, Helper, Helper Historic District, Historic Buildings, Hotels, JCPenney, NRHP, utah

Helper Furniture and Hardware

This building was constructed in 1919 out of brick and stone rubble salvaged from the burned Double Rock store. Helper Furniture and Hardware Company, a business started by Mike Bergera and purchased by Joe and John Quilico in 1923, was located on the first floor. The original J. C. Penney store in Helper was also located on the first floor. The Hotel Utah, operated in the 1930s by D. C. Cavenah, was located on the second floor. This two-story commercial building contributes to the historic character of the Helper National Register Historic District.

76 South Main Street in Helper, Utah

Jones Hotel

14 Wednesday Sep 2022

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Clark County, historic, Hotels, Nevada, Overton

The historic Jones Hotel, located at 159 W Virginia in Overton, Nevada.

Dutch Flat Hotel

23 Saturday Jul 2022

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California, Dutch Flat, Hotels, Placer County

Dutch Flat Hotel

Built in 1852, the Dutch Flat Hotel was a long, narrow, two-story building running along Stockton Street, fronting on Main Street. In 1868, it was expanding in the front to include the building next door and, in 1875, a third story was added. From 1880 to 1900, a bridge connected the Dutch Flat Hotel with the National Hotel across Main Street. In its heyday, the hotel had 52 rooms, a large dining room that could seat 150, and a saloon.

In 1920, the hotel was remodeled to its current size. The hotel closed in 1941 and was a private residence until reopening in 2004.

This plaque is located on Main Street in Dutch Flat, California.

Low Hotel

18 Tuesday Jan 2022

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Historic Buildings, Hotels, Murals

The old Low Hotel in Beaver, Utah
95 North Main Street in Beaver, Utah

Park (Rio Grande) Hotel

10 Monday May 2021

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Historic Buildings, Hotels, NRHP, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, utah

The Park Hotel is significant for its association with the early 20th century development of Salt Lake City’s transportation and industrial district. Built immediately after completion of the nearby Rio Grande and Union Pacific railroad stations (both built in 1909-10), the Park Hotel provided housing and services for blue collar workers, many of them ethnic immigrants, employed in local transportation, manufacturing, commercial, and construction enterprises. Designed by Ware and Treganza, one of Utah’s most prominent architectural firms, and constructed in 1911, the Park Hotel was the first hotel erected near the Rio Grande Depot.

With shops and café on the first level and residential rooms on the second level, the Park Hotel was modest in size and design, yet it was one of the first one a soon-popular building type. Over the next few years, several other hotels were constructed to the east along 300 South, producing something of a “hotel row.” Following World War II the name was changed to the Rio Grande Hotel. It continues it s historic function as a single room occupancy hotel.

Located at 428 West 300 South in Salt Lake.

VanFleet Hotel

20 Saturday Mar 2021

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Davis County, Farmington, Historic Buildings, Hotels, NRHP, utah

VanFleet Hotel

88 East State Street, Farmington, Utah

Originally built by Thomas and Electa Hunt in the 1860s, the VanFleet Hotel was probably first used as a residence. Located next to a Wells Fargo stagecoach stop and county courthouse on what was once the highway connecting Salt Lake City and Ogden, it was at the center of commerce and government in the city and county. This location made the building well suited for a public function and it was apparently used as a hotel after the 1870s.

Hyrum VanFleet purchased the hotel in 1908 during an era when the city was enjoying a period of wealth and expansion fostered by the Farmington Commercial Club. After a fire in January 1913 nearly destroyed the structure, VanFleet undertook a major renovation which resulted in the doubling of its size. The hotel became known as the “Honeymoon Hotel” because many couples who married in the courthouse would spend their honeymoon here. The VanFleet family lived in and operated the hotel for more than four decades until 1953 when they converted the building into apartment space. In 1995, after years of vacancy, the building was rehabilitated by Drs. P. Berrett Packer and Scott W. Corry for dental offices.

Temple Hotel McCallister Home

11 Monday Jan 2021

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Historic Homes, Hotels, Manti, NRHP, Sanpete County, utah

Temple Hotel McCallister Home

Built c. 1880 of native rock, it served as a hotel for many skilled workers on the Manti Temple. It was acquired in 1897 by John D. T. McAllister, prominent Utah pioneer and churchman.

Located at 401 North Main Street in Manti, Utah

New York Hotel

17 Thursday Sep 2020

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Historic Buildings, Hotels, NRHP, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, utah

When first constructed in 1906, the New York Hotel provided luxurious accommodations for travelers. The building offered steam heat and electric lights in every room while advertisements assured all guests of excellent service.

The hotel features an attractive entrance canopy supported by cast iron columns on high sandstone bases. Also note the curvilinear gable where the building’s name appears in large block letters. In the mid-1970s, the New York Hotel was renovated to house restaurants and office space. The pioneering project was one of the first in Salt Lake City to adapt an historic building for a new use. Its success brought new life to an historic building and a declining area of downtown.

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Located at 42-60 West Market Street in Salt Lake.

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