The Grand Hotel - Medicine Lodge, KS
Posted by: 
YoSam.
N 37° 16.785 W 098° 34.766
14S E 537282 N 4125989
Hotel is now an apartment building, with gun room in the old lobby.
Waymark Code: WMV8A4
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2017
Views: 1
County of building: Barber County
Location of building: Washington Ave. & Main St. Medicine Lodge
Building built: 1885
old Photo: 1920
New Photo: 2010
Historic Marker on the building:
THE GRAND HOTEL
In January, 1884, Medicine Lodge citizens organized a stock company to build a first class hotel. Standiford, Youmans & Co., a local business, donated the three lots at the corner of Main Street and Washington Avenue. The bricks for the structure were made here. The woodwork, furniture, and accessories were brought by ox team from the Harper railroad terminal. The Grand Hotel, the tallest building west of Wichita, opened on March 4, 1885, dazzling even the cowboys with its rich Brussels carpet, furniture of walnut and ebony with marble tops, paintings, tableware, and silverware. In 1898 the Grand was purchased by George W. Horney, who as a young cowboy in 1885 had made it his home. His son, George, and daughter, Sweet (Mrs. M. B. Skinner), in turn managed the Grand until her death in 1980.
Source of old photo and some great history of the hotel is on this rootsweb Page.