The Hotel Glenwood

The original building at this site was built in 1883 as the Hotel Colorado, but it was quickly found too small and plans were made to replace it. In 1884, Isaac Cooper, William Gelder, and Joseph Enzensperger planned a building in keeping with the elegance of the times, and a brick, 3 story, 75 room hotel was built in sections over several years and completed in 1887 at a final cost of $150,000. It had elevators, a restaurant, retail spaces, and a fire alarm system, and it took the name Hotel Glenwood. Among its best-known patrons were H.A.W. Tabor and his young wife Baby Doe, and 'Doc' Holliday, who came to Glenwood to spend his last days and died there in bed on November 8, 1887. After 50 years of serving guests, the Hotel Glenwood was destroyed by a fire on December 14, 1945, in a blaze unmatched in Glenwood Springs' history that claimed at least 4 lives. Grant E. Bullock rebuilt this corner on December 29, 1949, and his family operated a department store there until the middle 1990's, after which he sold the building to Cameron Calder, who remodeled it into the current structure with the clock tower.

Glenwood Springs, Colorado · United States