Hotelhistorie: Hotel Jerome i den populære turist- og skiby Aspen

Hotel Jerome blev bygget i 1889 af Jerome B. Wheeler, medejer af Macy's stormagasin. Han besøgte Aspen i 1883 og, imponeret over dets skønhed, begyndte han at investere i samfundet.

The Hotel Jerome was built in 1889 by Jerome B. Wheeler, co-owner of Macy’s Department Store. He visited Aspen in 1883 and, impressed by its beauty, began investing in the community. He commissioned the hotel and the Wheeler Opera House. The Hotel Jerome was the first hotel in Colorado with electricity and indoor plumbing. After surviving the Panic of 1893, the Jerome passed through some trying times and a variety of different owners. In 1911, Mansor Elisha, a Syrian American drummer with a traveling band, acquired the hotel and owned it through a flu epidemic when its parlors served as a morgue. Elisha’s ownership survived the Prohibition when the most popular drink was the Aspen Crud, a vanilla ice cream soda or milkshake spiked with bourbon.

The Elisha family continued to own and operate the Jerome through World War II. Earlier, US Olympic bobsledder, Billy Fiske saw the perfect terrain for a ski resort and formed the Highland Bavarian ski club. After WWII, some veterans of the US Army’s Tenth Mountain Division’s “soldiers on skis” returned to Aspen to help develop the ski resort. After construction of a new swimming pool, the Jerome attracted many movie stars including Gary Cooper, Lana Turner, and John Wayne.

I 1945 forestillede Walter Paepcke, præsident for Container Corporation of America, Aspen som et ideelt sted for en amerikansk modstykke til Salzburg-festivalen. Paepcke erhvervede og / eller lejede mange bygninger inklusive Hotel Jerome. Med Friedl Pfeifer, en østrigsk, investerede Paepcke i Aspen Skiing Company og gennemførte skiliften nr. 1, der hævdede at være den længste i verden.

Paepcke skabte Aspen Institute som et ideelt samlingssted for tænkere, ledere, kunstnere og musikere fra hele verden. Hans deltagelse i Great Books-seminaret ledet af filosofen Mortimer Adler inspirerede instituttets Executive Seminar. Aspen Institute er fortsat et af de største intellektuelle og musiksteder i verden.

After a variety of investors and owners, the Hotel Jerome suffered some down periods of neglect and subsequent restoration projects. In 1998, the J-Bar was restored to its original appearance, and 4 years later, a US$6 million project added a new rear wing and grand ballroom and updated the guest rooms.

Hotel Jerome er nu på det nationale register over historiske steder. Hvert smukt indrettede værelse er rummeligt - selv det mindste er mere end 500 kvadratmeter. Badeværelserne er færdige med hvid marmor og ottekantede fliser med store badekar og separate brusere.

Hotel Jerome er en del af Auberge Resort-samlingen. Garden Terrace Restaurant serverer alpine Colorado-retter. Biblioteket serverer tapas-retter, mens J-Bar fortsætter med at indeholde hotellets signaturdrink, Aspen Crud. Hotel Jerome med 93 værelser blev anerkendt som en af ​​Travel Advisor Readers 2011 “Top 10-hoteller i verden.”

Artikel fra Nobody Asked Me, But ... No. 96 af Stanley Turkel, CMHS, ISHC. For mere information om forfatteren af ​​denne artikel, gå til: www.stanleyturkel.com

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