For most of the 20th century, this corner was the site of the Cadillac Hotel. Although the Dodge Hotel on Central Avenue between First and Second Streets was the town's first hotel, the three-story Cadillac, built in 1907 near the railroad depot, became a popular hostelry for railroaders, passengers, and patrons of Central Avenue bars and gambling places. In 1922, J.J. Cremans built the New Cadillac Hotel, which stood for the next 72 years. Its owners over the years included John Bender, Dick and Martha Zerr, their son Jack, Nancy Montgomery, Bob Cavill and Jack Tidyman, and Mel and Evelun Stenslie. The Cadillac Bar, adjoining the hotel rooms on the south, was a town gathering place, and for a short time in the mid-century its organist was Joan Smith, who later became Mrs. Ray Kroc, wife of the McDonald's magnate and philanthropist. In the 1960s, the bar and restaurant was renamed the Hanging Tree after the book of the same name by Whitefish resident Dorothy Johnson. The hotel eventually closed because of age and disuse, and in 1994 the old brick building was demolished to make way for the Great Northern Brewing Co. The bar and restaurant later became the Glacier Grande, the Serano's, and then Paddle & Axe, before reopening in 2006 under Bill Foley's ownership as Craggy Range Bar & Grill.