After the fire of May 26th, 1882 destroyed the dwellings here, Mrs. Amelia Adamson built the Cochise House Hotel in 1885, and that same year she and hotel guest Mrs. Mary Gee planted a rose bush in the hotel patio after it was sent to Mrs. Gee by a relative in Scotland. By 1909 the Cochise House had been renamed the Arcade Hotel and Annex and was described as iron clad adobe. In the 1920s, new owners James and Ethel Macia built the steel pipe and wood post trellis that supports the Rose Tree. In 1934, Robert Ripley declared the rose bush the world's largest in the newspaper column Believe it or Not. In 1936 the Arcade was renamed the Rose Tree Inn in honor of the Rose Tree, and the inn remained a popular boarding house until it closed in 1953. In 1964 the hotel was incorporated into the Rose Tree Museum, which remains today.