[3] Although it provided a place for cowboys and railroad workers to stay while they were in town, the hotel was actually built to serve a much broader clientele.

[4] The original building is a 3½ story structure built in a freely adapted example of Renaissance Revival in the Italian Style.

It is constructed of concrete blocks containing sand drawn from the Medicine Bow River and fashioned at the building site.

[2] The hotel proper is papered in Victorian gold and burgundy medallion wallpaper, has velvet draperies and pressed tin on its 12 foot high ceilings.

[4] The main floor has an "Eating House," the formal "Owen Wister Dining Room," and the "Shiloh Saloon," which still has bullet holes riddled throughout to remind guests of some past shootout.