At an original height of 12 stories and 132 feet (40 m), the hotel is the tallest building in the city.

Its architecture is primarily Renaissance Revival but incorporates a variety of styles; its decorative elements include elaborate terra cotta details on the upper and lower stories and quoin-like terra cotta at its corners.

While the hotel struggled financially in its early years, it stabilized in the 1930s; from then on, it served as both a modern hotel for travelers and laborers and a meeting place for community events.

[2] The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on October 28, 1994.

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