One of the truly grand hotels of the southwest is being listed for sale in Douglas, Arizona for $3.2 million.
Located at 1046 N G Avenue, the Gadsden Hotel was built in 1907 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
With 130 rooms, the hotel is perhaps most known for its mezzanine 42-foot-wide stained glass window mural, and spacious lobby dominated by a solid white Italian marble staircase at the center of four massive marble columns.
The Gadsden, contends author Stanley Turkel in his book Built To Last: 100+Year-Old Hotels West of the Mississippi, originally “provided some civilized behavior and gracious hospitality to the growing business brought in by the nearby mining operators. The hotel soon became a meeting place for cattlemen ranchers, miners, and businessmen.”
It has also been featured in the film The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean starring Paul Newman, and the Charlie Sheen movie Terminal Velocity.
Listed with Novoa Realty of Douglas, the Gadsden Hotel has hosted the likes of Eleanor Roosevelt, John Wayne, Faye Dunaway, and the popular Western novelist Louis L’Amour.
By Garry Boulard
