History of Brown Palace Hotel and Spa Denver

The unique Brown Palace Hotel & Spa has been open every day since Aug. 12, 1892. Many changes have taken standpoint over the years, but one creature remainders the same - the filtration and grace of one of Denver's job elegant hotels.

The tale of The Brown Palace Hotel Denver begins in a perspective ripe for entrepreneurship. It was the late 1800s in Denver, Colo., and group from all over the nation were still flocking to the West, hunting their fortunes in gold and silver. Everyone stopped in Denver, either on their apparatus to or from the mountains. Some settled; some moved on, but all needed a location to stay.

Henry Cordes Brown, a carpenter-turned-real-estate promoter from Ohio, came to Denver in 1860 after a sum of adventures in California, Peru, Nebraska and St. Louis, Missouri. In Denver, Brown purchased scores acres of land, including a triangular design at the corners of Broadway, Tremont and 17th street, where he grazed his cow. Brown made a name for himself by donating den for the State Capitol building, and by assigning the first $1,000 for the instituting of the city's first library.

Henry Brown had made a destinies selling off the steadfastness of his den on Capitol Hill and no price was spared for his "Palace Hotel." Architect Frank E. Edbrooke was hired to formatting the hotel. Like Brown, Edbrooke played a significant bureau in Denver's history, designing lots landmark buildings, including Central Presbyterian Church and the Masonic Temple Building, among others.

Work on The Brown Palace started in 1888. Edbrooke designed Brown's hotel in the Italian Renaissance style, using Colorado red granite and Arizona sandstone for the building's exterior. For a overcoming touch, wright James Whitehouse was commissioned to create 26 medallions carved in stone, each depicting a native Rocky Mountain animal. The hotel's "silent guests" can still be seen between the seventh floor windows on the hotel's exterior.

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For the interior, Edbrooke designed an atrium lobby, with balconies growth eight floors above ground, surrounded by cast iron railings with ornate grille panels. No one knows for sure whether it was done intentionally, but two of the grille band were installed - and remain - upside down. Edbrooke imported onyx from Mexico for the lobby, the Grand Salon (now the Onyx Room) on the deputy floor, and the eighth narrative ballroom. The hotel was hailed as the deputy fire-proof composition in America. No logs was used for the floors and walls, which were instead made of dent blocks of porous terracotta fireproofing.

After an spending of $1.6 million - a remarkable sum for the time - and another $400,000 for furniture, The Brown Palace Hotel opened on Aug. 12, 1892. It had 400 guest rooms (compared to 241 today) that rented for between $3 and $5 a night.