Antlers Hotel (Colorado Springs, Colorado)

[4] In June 1883,[a] twelve years after he founded the City of Colorado Springs as a railroad town,[8] William Jackson Palmer built The Antlers hotel.

[9][10] It was built near the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railway (D&RGW), which Palmer had co-founded in 1870.

The hotel had gas lights, steam heat, hot and cold water, and a hydraulic elevator.

[11][12] The Antlers burned down on October 1, 1898,[1] when a fire started at the nearby D&RGW freight depot.

It was an elegant hotel with views of Pikes Peak, 200 rooms, a restaurant, the Rose Ballroom, fireproof walls, tapestries, and mosaic floors.

[14] William Jackson Palmer died in 1909, after which Spencer Penrose attempted to buy the hotel but could not reach an agreement, leading him to build The Broadmoor in 1918.

[21] A limited liability company of LNR Partners of Miami Beach, Florida, which was the hotel's lender, took control of the firm in 2007.