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In January 1884, Medicine Lodge citizens organized a stock company to build a first class hotel, and Standiford Youmans & Co., a local business, donated three lots at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue. The bricks for the structure were made there, while the woodwork, furniture, and accessories were brought by ox team from the Harper railroad terminal. The Grand Hotel, the tallest building west of Wichita, opened on March 4, 1885, dazzling even cowboys with its rich Brussels carpet, walnut and ebony furniture with marble tops, paintings, tableware, and silverware. In 1898 George W. Horney purchased the Grand; as a young cowboy in 1885 he had made it his home, and his son George and daughter Sweet, Mrs. M.B. Skinner, later managed it until her death in 1980.
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