Palace Hotel (Springfield, Missouri)

Palace Hotel
The Palace Hotel, September 2014
Location501 College St., Springfield, Missouri
Coordinates37°12′40″N 93°17′44″W / 37.21111°N 93.29556°W / 37.21111; -93.29556
Arealess than one acre
Built1892 (1892), 1908
Architectural styleItalianate, Commercial Block
MPSSpringfield, Missouri MPS (Additional Documentation)
NRHP reference No.02001419[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 27, 2002

Palace Hotel, also known as the Eldredge Block, Excelsior Steam Laundry, Baltimore Hotel, Gardner Hotel, and Massey Hotel, is a historic hotel building located at Springfield, Greene County, Missouri. It was built about 1892, and is a two-story, Italianate influenced brick commercial building. It has cast iron columns on the first floor storefront, a flat roof, and flat parapet. It originally housed a laundry, then converted to a hotel in 1908. It continued as a hotel until 1946.[2]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ Richard Lee Burton (September 2002). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Palace Hotel" (PDF). Missouri Department of Natural Resources. Retrieved December 1, 2016. (includes 13 photographs from 2002)