Gadsden Hotel | |
 Lobby,Gadsden Hotel | |
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| Location | 1046 G. Ave.,Douglas, Arizona |
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| Coordinates | 31°20′43″N109°33′15″W / 31.34528°N 109.55417°W /31.34528; -109.55417 |
| Built | 1907 |
| Architect | Trost & Trost |
| NRHP reference No. | 76000371[1] |
| Added to NRHP | July 30, 1976 |
TheGadsden Hotel is a historic hotel inDouglas,Arizona. It was listed on the U.S.National Register of Historic Places in 1976.[1] The hotel is owned by Bright Brains Hospitality
The hotel opened in 1907. Named for theGadsden Purchase, the stately five-story, 160-room hotel became a home away from home for cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen.[2] The hotel was leveled by fire and rebuilt in 1929 by architect from El PasoHenry Trost.[3] The Gadsden's spacious main lobby is majestically set with a solid white Italianmarble staircase and four soaring marble columns.[2] A stained glass window mural of the Southwest Desert by 5th generation artisan Ralph Baker, who studied under Louis Comfort Tiffany, extends forty-two feet across one wall of the massivemezzanine.[4] A large oil painting byAudley Dean Nicols is just below the Tiffany-style window. The hotel's vaultedstained glass skylights run the full length of the lobby.[5]
The hotel is said to behaunted, especially in Room 333, and has been in "ghost" shows on television, such as an episode ofSightings in 1995.[2][6][4][5] The Gadsden Hotel has also been in several movies, includingThe Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean with Paul Newman,Terminal Velocity withCharlie Sheen andNastassja Kinski, andRuby Jean and Joe withTom Selleck.[4]
The Gadsden was featured onHotel Impossible on August 26, 2013.[7] The hotel was turned over to a management company which renovated the first floor in 2013 and completed renovation of second-floor guest rooms in March 2014. Third-floor rooms were "dressed up" but not fully renovated and are now marketed as the "Historic Rooms".[8]
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