The Perry House - Basin Park Hotel

In 1884, Cutter's Guide called the Perry House the only real first-class hotel in Eureka Springs, saying Joseph Perry of Colorado had built it about two years earlier after coming to the city as an invalid and then recovering so quickly and completely that he gratefully built and finely furnished the hotel. From 1881 to 1890, the Perry House was presented as a first-class establishment in every particular. By 1905, the Basin Park Hotel stood as a fire-proof resort hotel built at a cost of $150,000 in a central location adjoining Basin Spring, with bridges from every floor to the mountain, electric elevator, electric lights, hot and cold water in every room, one hundred bedrooms, fifty private baths, telephones in each guest room, guest bathrooms on every floor, a dining room seating two hundred, and ground-floor lobby, office, barber shop, and drugstore, while its seventh floor contained a ballroom, sun parlor, reception, grill, and billiards room. In 1997, Marty and Elize Roenick purchased the Basin Park Hotel, and although their planned semi-retirement home on the top floors was never built, they were credited in a 2002 gubernatorial proclamation with preserving and restoring the Basin Park and Crescent Hotels and helping protect the irreplaceable.

Eureka Springs, Arkansas · United States