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Photo by William Henry Jackson, 1881, courtesy
Denver Public Library.
The saloon and lobby of the Clarendon Hotel
was an oft meeting place for the
Silver Kings, illustration courtesy
Denver Public Library.
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The
three-story Clarendon Hotel was built in 1979, one of the first large
hotels in Leadville and within no time, its bar became a haven for many of
the area Carbonate Kings, including Horace Tabor. The building had
clapboard siding, bracketed cornices, striped awnings, and first-floor
storefronts with large pane windows. Built in the same year as the Tabor
Opera House, the Hotel had an adjoining walkway between the two buildings.
When Horace Tabor met
Baby Doe, he
soon moved her into a suite at the hotel and though he was Lieutenant
Governor and still married, the two could easily meet discretely by
traversing the walkway. Over the years, the luxurious hotel played host to
President Ulysses S. Grant and his wife, General Sherman, the Duke of
Cumberland, Commodore Vanderbilt, Jay Gould, and Oscar Wilde.
Unfortunately, the building was demolished in the 1930s.
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