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Article: THE INTER OCEAN: A STORY OF AN EARLY WYOMING HOTEL
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- Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
- Article date:
- December 22, 2002
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Almost 68 years ago, on Sunday, Dec. 17, 1916, a fire in Cheyenne
brought to an end the story of the Inter Ocean Hotel.
Built in 1875 by Chicago restaurateur Barney L. Ford -- with the
official opening on Sept. 1 -- the hotel was the largest building in
Cheyenne and one of three spectacular hotels in the city.
Erected on the northwest corner of 16th and Hill Streets (now
Capitol Avenue) at a cost of $38,000 or $65,000, depending on which
records in the Wyoming State Archives the researcher chooses to
believe, the three-story, 56-room Inter Ocean became known as "The
Best in the West."
The hotel boasted many "firsts." It was the first hotel in the
U.S. to be lighted with electricity using 16 ...
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