History

It’s the second oldest hotel watch was built in 1892 of sandstone and red granite one year later than the Oxford hotel .

The founder and owner of this hotel is Henry C. Brown..

Brown originally left his Ohio home in 1860, planning on striking it rich in California. However , as his family passed through Denver . also his wife liked it so much she reportedly said to him, "Mr. Brown, thou may press on to California .

The main hotel’s dining room , called Ellyngton’s today . was once known as the San Marco Room, where big bands played, and later the San Marco Strings entertained the hotel’s guests.

However the hotel cost of an unprecedented $1.6 million . the luxury hotel was built in the Italian Renaissance style on a triangular lot at the intersection of 17th and Broadway. Other reports include the frequent sighting of a uniformed waiter who is spied in the service elevator, cheerful children who are known to gallop in the hallways, and a baby’s cries often heard in the boiler room.