The three-story red brick Penn-Eben Hotel was Ebensburg's finest example of a salesman hotel. Built by Mr. T.V. Hott in 1913 as the Exchange Hotel, it reflected Ebensburg's shift, with the coming of the automobile and improved highways, from a final destination to a point of passage. In 1934 the Hott family sold the 37-room building to Elmer Daily, who renamed it Penn-Eben. Earlier, Ebensburg had boasted dozens of resort hotels for visitors seeking cool mountain breezes and refreshing spring water, including the Belmont, Lloyd Springs, and the Ebensburg Inn, where guests might stay for a week or an entire summer season. Daily, well known as president of the Middle Atlantic Baseball League, welcomed famous guests that included baseball players Cy Young, Honus Wagner, Tommy Heinrich, and Lefty Grove, as well as the Harlem Globe Trotters, boxer Fritzie Zivic, and actor Lou Ayers. To staff the hotel, Daily employed six waitresses, a French chef, two laundresses, bellhops, maids, and janitors. Inside, the hotel featured oak interiors, a mahogany bar, two suites appointed in bird's-eye maple, a dining room that seated sixty, a Tap Room bar with a running water trough beneath the brass foot rail, and a basement with a fully equipped laundry and barbershop. The Penn-Eben Hotel hosted salesmen, dignitaries, sports figures, movie stars, and dance bands before closing in 1969, and the building was razed in 1985.