[Rarebooks] FS: Hotel Colorado, detailed booklet

[Bob Petrilla]

Colorado, Glenwood Springs. HOTEL COLORADO: GLENWOOD HOT SPRINGS, COLORADO,
IN THE HEART OF THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS (cover title) The Glenwood Hot Springs
Company, Proprietor. The Hotel Colorado Company, Lessee. E.E. Lucas,
Manager. Glenwood Springs, CO: Hotel Colorado, (1894). First Edition. 24pp;
promotional text, small map, profusely illustrated from photographs, with
many exterior and interior views of the hotel facilities, the baths and
vapor caves (priced at 25 cents to a dollar for various levels and
combinations of care). Other amusements include: Music Room, Ball Room,
Great Swimming Pool, Rides and Drives, Polo, Hunting & Fishing, Waterfalls,
&c. Bound in pictorial paper covers. 8.5" x 6" Very Good. Pictorial Stiff
Wrappers.
Inspired by the Villa Medici in Rome, the Hotel Colorado at this time
contained 300 guest rooms and 100 private bathrooms, with an open fireplace
in most rooms. The Hotel was designed by New York architects Boring, Tilton
& Mellen, and built around natural hot springs along the rail lines of the
Denver & Rio Grande and the Colorado Midland RR. The Colorado opened in
1893. All of the testimonials at the back of this booklet are dated 1894.
Printed by W.F. Hall, Chicago. [WorldCat locates four holdings of a similar
title: Wisconsin Historical, Denver Public, U Denver, and UCal-Berkeley.]
$90.00

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