[1] In 1915, a group of businessmen in Aurora, Illinois determined that the city required a first-class hotel.

Edwin C. Faber, the general manager of the Chicago Aurora and Elgin Railroad, was the president of the hotel.

In 1928, he sold it to William O. Gosselin, who was in the process of building the Leland Hotel on the island.

On September 10, 1986, it was listed as a contributing property to the Stolp Island Historic District.

Entrances on Galena Boulevard and Stolp Avenue feature double cut limestone balconies with stone balustrades.