Gadsden Hotel

Gadsden Hotel is a historic building in Douglas, Arizona. It was listed on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places in 1976.^[1]

The hotel opened in 1907. Named for the Gadsden Purchase, the stately five-story, 160-room hotel became a home away from home for cattlemen, ranchers, miners, and businessmen. The hotel was leveled by fire and rebuilt in 1929. The Gadsden is recognized as a National Historic Site. The Gadsden's spacious main lobby is majestically set with a solid white Italian marble staircase and four soaring marble columns. An authentic Tiffany & Co. stained glass mural extends forty-two feet across one wall of the massive mezzanine. An impressive oil painting by Audley Jean Nichols is just below the Tiffany window. Vaulted stained glass skylights run the full length of the lobby. The Hotel is said to be haunted and has been in "ghost" shows on TV, such as Sightings in 1995. The Gadsden Hotel has also been in several movies such as The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean with Paul Newman, Terminal Velocity (movie) with Charlie Sheen and Nastassja Kinski, Ruby Jean and Joe with Tom Selleck and many others.

Notable guests

• Thornton Wilder, whose overnight stay in 1962 for a car repair extended to two months—he liked both the hotel and the area.^[2]
• Effie Anderson Smith, known during her lifetime as The Dean of Arizona Women Artists, stayed at the Gadsden Hotel frequently during the 1930s. She resided in the hotel during the 1940s and completed several paintings there, including a view of the Swisshelms as seen from her room at the Gadsden. One of her paintings of the Grand Canyon hung in the lobby of the Gadsden Hotel for 11 years. (source: Douglas Daily Dispatch,1948).

References

External links

• Gadsden Hotel website
• Photo gallery