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This three-story
hotel was built in 1873, at a cost of $35,000, only two
years after the town was founded. The Italianate architectural
style is evident on the building by the exaggerated
paired brackets, overhanging eaves and segmentally arched
window heads. A
two-story piazza is one of the hotels most striking
features. The city's first brick building, and the oldest
commercial structure remaining from the
"cowtown" period, the building was considered
one of the finest hotels west of the Mississippi when
constructed.
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