Hotel Holly/Haswell Hotel Haswell, Colorado
National Register of Historic Places Data
Hotel Holly/Haswell Hotel has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places with the following information, which has been imported from the National Register database and/or the Nomination Form. Please note that not all available data may be shown here, minor errors and/or formatting may have occurred during transcription, and some information may have become outdated since listing.
- National Register ID
- 13000608
- Date Listed
- August 20, 2013
- Name
- Hotel Holly-Haswell Hotel
- Other Names
- 5KW.33
- Part of
- N/A (Multiple Property Submission)
- Address
- 200 4th St.
- City/Town
- Haswell
- County
- Kiowa
- State
- Colorado
- Category
- district
- Level of Sig.
- local
- Areas of Sig.
- COMMERCE; SOCIAL HISTORY
Description
Text courtesy of the National Register of Historic Places, a program of the National Parks Service. Minor transcription errors or changes in formatting may have occurred; please see the Nomination Form PDF for official text. Some information may have become outdated since the property was nominated for the Register.
Built by Acquilla Hollingsworth in 1907, the Holly Hotel/Haswell Hotel is significant under Criterion A in the areas of Commerce and Social History at a local level of significance. The hotel has significance in the field of Commerce as one of the first business buildings erected in Haswell, operating as a hostelry for about sixty years. In the area of Social History, the hotel served from its inception as a center of social activities for the town, including meetings, dinners, and celebrations. The hotel is associated with the Hollingsworth family, among the most prominent early pioneers of Haswell, and with the Rebel and Covalt families who each operated the hotel for many years. Writing in 1962, reporter Mrs. Leonard Stoker described the hotel and its tree-filled yard a landmark on the broad eastern Colorado prairies.
