Barlett Hotel: Once Lavish Now a Shell
Before the Bartlett Hotel, the Grandview Hotel, a wooden structure built in 1895, stood here as the first two-story building in Jerome. It had rooms for dances, dining and sleeping. In 1898, the structure was destroyed by fire. The Bartlett Hotel was then built of brick in 1901. It had five rooms for stores on the sub-level along First Street. The interior was lavish with each room decorated in a different color. The office of The News, Jerome’s longest running newspaper, was in the Bartlett for 20 years. The building also housed a bank, drug stone, offices and shops. The building became unstable with the slides in the 1930’s and was abandoned in the 1940’s. The mining company sold portions of it for salvage in the 1950’s removing the entire top floor.
This is awesome. Sad, that it was never renovated or completely torn down, but great for adventures and pictures!
ReplyDeleteThose buildings up there are so catywampas that they make get all vertigo. That is gorgeous. The older the building, the prettier the bones because it's brick/stone.
ReplyDeleteBRAVO! Julie, you've done it again. From your eye you captured a place's soul and brought it before all of us to see on the Internet. Gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteNice interesting post, Julie. I always seem to learn something new about AZ when you dig up history. The old building must have quite a history to it. Keep doing your great informative posts. Thank you!
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You can see the remnants of the hotel's beauty in the old structure.
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