Gold Dust Hotel

Gold Dust Hotel
Location402 N. Seventh St., Fredonia, Kansas
Coordinates37°32′02″N 95°49′33″W / 37.53389°N 95.82583°W / 37.53389; -95.82583
Arealess than one acre
Builtc.1884-85
Built byDoney, J.W.
ArchitectBarton, John
Architectural styleItalianate
NRHP reference No.91001542[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 1, 1991

The Gold Dust Hotel, located at 402 N. Seventh St. in Fredonia, Kansas, was built in c.1884-85. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991.[1]

It is a three-story brick Italianate-style building. It has also been known as Hotel Cunningham, as Farris Hotel, and as Gold Dust Hotel and Apartments.[2]

When it was completed in 1885, the Wilson County Citizen asserted:

The Gold Dust is without doubt as fine a hotel as can be found in Southern Kansas. It would be splendid hotel in a city of ten or twenty thousand inhabitants. It is not only a grand building externally but contains the most modern appointments and conveniences of first-class institutions of this kind and is furnished in all respects in a most elegant and comfortable manner. Its ventilation is perfect and not an important essential feature for a number one hotel has been omitted.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ a b Martha Hagedorn-Krass (May 16, 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Gold Dust Hotel / Hotel Cunningham / Farris Hotel / Gold Dust Hotel and Apartments / 205-187Q-QQ18". National Park Service. Retrieved November 30, 2017. With 31 photos, most from 1991.