MAKE A MEME View Large Image The 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado LCCN2015632312.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes In its day the Beaumont was one of the grandest hotels ...
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Keywords: The 1886 Beaumont Hotel in Ouray, Colorado, an old mining community high in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado LCCN2015632312.tif 1 photograph digital tiff file color Notes In its day the Beaumont was one of the grandest hotels in western Colorado It was one of the first hotels in America to be wired for alternating-current electricity It hosted guests such as presidents Theodore Roosevelt and Herbert Hoover The hotel closed in 1964 due to declining tourism in the area For more than 30 years the hotel sat empty boarded up and in disrepair At one point part of the roof collapsed and more than once the building was considered for condemnation The hotel was sold in 1998 and was meticulously restored its multiple rooms combined into a more spacious arrangement The large hotel building now in 2015 has just 12 guest rooms ; Forms part of Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive ; Credit line Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division ; Title date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer ; Purchase; Carol M Highsmith Photography Inc ; 2015; DLC/PP-2015 068 2015 Creator Carol M Highsmith Library of Congress Catalog http //lccn loc gov/2015632312 Image download https //cdn loc gov/master/pnp/highsm/32200/32297a tif Original url http //hdl loc gov/loc pnp/highsm 32297 No known restrictions on publication LOC-image highsm 32297 PD-Highsmith Images uploaded by Fæ Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Ouray Colorado Gates Frontiers Fund Colorado Collection within the Carol M Highsmith Archive Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Photographs by Carol M Highsmith
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