A successful motel located in the middle of a greatly romanticized Old West is up for sale in southeastern Arizona.
The Larian Motel sits on a 2-acre site at 410 Fremont Street in Tombstone, a city with a population of 1,300 people that is most known as the site of the famous 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
That shootout between such legends as Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, representing the law; and Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers, representing the other side, is popularly seen as the most famous shootout in the history of the Old West.
The one-story motel sits next to the Schieffelin Hall, which was erected in 1881 as an opera house and is thought to be the largest existing adobe structure in the in the southwest region.
Built in 1952, the Lorain Motel was never visited by Earp, Holliday or any of the outlaws. But it’s regarded as a tourist mainstay whose early construction was greeted by the local Tombstone Epitaph as simply “another downtown motel project.”
The property has endured through the decades as Tombstone’s legend, known as the “town too tough to die” and captured in countless films and books, has endured as well.
Renovated in 2013, the 13-room motel is classified as a Class C building and is listed by the real estate company DeLex Realty of Glendale for $1.3 million.
By Garry Boulard
