Brown Palace Hotel

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Brown Palace Hotel is the second oldest hotel in Denver, Colorado and is now operated by Quorum Hotels and Resorts. It was built in 1892, one year later than the Oxford Hotel. It was named for its original owner, Henry Brown, and was designed with its odd triangular shape by architect Frank Edbrooke.

Guests included and still include many entrepreneurs, legislators, presidents and foreign officials. Some guests of the past included President Theodore Roosevelt, the "Unsinkable" Molly Brown (she even stayed at the hotel only a week after the Titanic disaster), President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Harry S Truman, President Warren Harding, President William Taft, Sun Yat Sen (just prior to being the president of the New Republic of China), Queen Marie of Romania, and The Beatles.

There is a rumor that a crematorium exists in the basement. Ever since its opening, natural light has poured into the atrium from the stained-glass skylight eight stories above. Afternoon tea is now a custom in the lobby with Denverites and visitor alike listening to a harpist or pianist. The hotel also includes four highly rated restaurants: fine dining in the Palace Arms, elegant breakfast and lunch in Ellyington's, casual lunch and dinner in the Ship's Tavern, and the members-only Brown Palace Club.

Each year during the National Western Stock Show in Denver, the Grand Champion Steer is taken to the Brown Palace and displayed in the lobby.