Stout's Hotel - Gila Bend, AZ - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

Stout's hotel opened in 1927 between the railroad and the main highway in the town of Gila Bend. The original building had combined a hotel and a market starting in the early 1920's. The market burned down but the hotel survived. Albert Stout decided to focus on the hotel and hired the architectural firm of Henry C. Trost to design a building. Trost, famous as the architect of many buildings throughout the southwest, designed the hotel with the main entrance facing the street rather than the railroad. Stout owned an ice house in the town and took advantage of the location to open an ice cream parlor in the hotel, catering to drivers in Model T's crossing the desert at 25 mph. The hotel used abalone shell and coral in the flooring and registration desk giving it the nickname Jewel of the Desert. Always reliant on the railroad traffic for business, the hotel closed in 1985 when the railroad stopped. The structure remains in place and efforts are underway to restore the building.
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Street address: 133 East Pima Street Gila Bend, AZ USA County / Borough / Parish: Maricopa Year listed: 2018 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Event, Architecture/Engineering Periods of significance: 1927 - 1985 Historic function: Domestic, Social Current function: Vacant/Not In Use Privately owned?: yes Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Secondary Website 2: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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