[1] Twelve of Tipton's leading citizens perceived the need for a hotel in town, and each subscribed to $1,000.00 worth of stock to build it.

Zeidler, of Muscatine, Iowa, who also designed the Greenwood Cemetery Chapel in Muscatine,[3] was employed to design the two-story, L-shaped building in the Italianate style.

The stable rents of the commercial space made the hotel economically feasible.

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