The Stanley Hotel is a 142-room Colonial Revival hotel in Estes Park, Colorado, United States. About five miles from the entrance to Rocky Mountain National Park, Stanley offers panoramic views of Lake Estes, the Rockies and especially Long's Peak. Built by Stanley Freelan Oscar from Stanley Steamer Fame and opened on July 4, 1909, serving the American upper class at the turn of the century. The hotel and its surrounding structures are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The Stanley Hotel hosts the horror novelist Stephen King, who serves as an inspiration to Overlook Hotel in his 1977 bestselling book The Shining and his 1980 movie adaptation of the same name, as well as the location for the 1997 miniseries Today, it includes restaurants, spas and bed-and-breakfasts, and provides tours featuring historical and alleged paranormal activity of the site.
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History
In 1903, the inventor of the Yankee Freelan steam engine Oscar Stanley (1849-1940) was hit by the revival of life-threatening tuberculosis. The most recommended treatments of the day are fresh and dry air with plenty of sun and a healthy diet. Therefore, like many "lungers" of his day, Stanley decided to take over the curative air of Rocky Mountain Colorado. She and Flora arrived in Denver in March and, in June, decided to spend the rest of the summer in the mountains, in Estes Park. During this season, Stanley's health improved dramatically. Impressed by the beauty of the valley and grateful for his healing, he decides to return every year. He lived to the age of 91, died of a heart attack in Newton, Massachusetts, a year after his wife, in 1940.
By 1907, Stanley had fully recovered. However, dissatisfied with rustic accommodation, lazy entertainment and a relaxed social atmosphere in their new summer home, Stanley decides to turn Estes Park into a resort town. In 1907, construction began at Stanley Hotel, a large 48-room hotel serving a rich urban class that composed the social circle of Stanleys back east.
The land was officially purchased in 1908 through the representatives of Lord Dunraven, an Anglo-Irish colleague who initially acquired it by stretching the Homestead Law provisions and pre-emption rights. Between 1872 and 1884, Dunraven claimed 15,000 acres (61Ã, km 2 ) from the Estes Valley in a failed attempt to create a private hunting reserve, making it one of the largest foreign holders on American soil. Unpopular with local farmers and farmers, Dunraven left the area for the last time in 1884 moving the farm to the management of a supervisor. The presence of Dunraven in Colorado has become so popular in the United States that the situation is parodied in the Charles King Dunraven Ranch (1892) and James A. Michener Centennial (1974). His reputation was such that, when Stanley suggested "The Dunraven" as the name for his new hotel, 180 people signed a pig leather petition requesting that he name it for himself instead.
This structure was completed in 1909 and is equipped with hydraulic lifts, electric and dual gas lights, running water, a telephone in each living room and a Stanley "Model Z" Mountain fleet specially designed to carry guests from a train depot twenty miles away; all this at the time Estes Park was little more than a place for hunters and naturalists. Initially, Stanley chose the color of the ocher for the exterior of the hotel with white accents and trim. The hotel is not equipped with heat until 1983 and is closed for winter each year. The presence of the hotel and Stanley's own involvement strongly contributed to the growth of Estes Park (founded in 1917) and the creation of the Rocky Mountain National Park (founded in 1915).
Stanley operates the hotel almost as a hobby of noting once that he spends more money than he does every summer. In 1926, he sold Stanley to a private company established for the purpose of running it. The attempt failed and, in 1929, Stanley bought his property from foreclosure selling it again, in 1930, to fellow car and hotel entrepreneur Roe Emery of Denver. During Emery's tenure as owner, the structures were painted white inside and out and most of the original electro-gas fixtures were replaced.
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Architecture
The Stanley Hotel National District Historic District contains eleven buildings that contribute including the main hotel, concert hall, carriage house and The Lodge, a smaller bed and breakfast originally called Stanley Manor. The buildings were designed by F.O. Stanley with the help of professional architects Denver T. Robert Wieger, Henry "Lord Cornwallis" Rogers, and contractor Frank Kirchoff. This site was chosen because of its location overlooking the valley of Estes and Long's Peak inside the National Park. The main building is a steel frame structure with wooden coating rests on the foundations of granite. Wood for flooring, clapboarding and finishing brought from Kirchoff's Denver Lumberyard and Bluff City Lumber Company from Pine Bluff, Arkansas. The Griffith sawmill near Lake Bierstadt and Stanley's Hidden Valley logging operations, located in the future national park, provide the framing material. The materials were brought to Lyons, Colorado by train and then to Estes Park by a horse-drawn cart. Simultaneously, Stanley oversaw the construction of a hydroelectric plant that brought electricity to Estes Park for the first time in 1909. Stanley claims that his hotel was first powered entirely by electricity from lighting into the kitchen. Water supplied by Black Canyon Creek was dammed in 1906.
The style of campus is called the Colonial Awakening. Although rare in the western United States, F.O. Stanley chose the Colonial Revival for his fashionable popularity in New England where he has designed his own home and social club in style. Hotel customers may, like Stanleys, have identified styles with the honor and sophistication of New England in contrast to the demands of the surrounding city. At one time, Stanley plans to build another more economical hotel in Estes Park as well as a headquarters and residence for supervisors of Rocky Mountain National Park of the same style, to align themselves with the big hotels. While the shape and layout of the building is suitable for their modern usage, their ornaments exhibit the features of Georgian or Federal architectural styles of staunch symmetry from south elevation to dome, roof, Palladian windows, side-and fans, scroll brackets and "swan goose neck" which articulates the exterior.
Main Building
The hotel's main building plan was laid out to accommodate popular activities amongst the American upper classes at the turn of the 20th century and the rooms were decorated accordingly. The music room, for example, with cream-colored walls (originally green and white), large windows, and nice classical plaster designed to write letters during the day and room music at night - cultured pursuits perceived as feminine. On the other hand, the smoking room (today PiÃÆ' Â ± on Room) and adjoining billiard room, with dark wood-stained elements and granite fireplace are designated to be enjoyed by male guests. Stanley himself, who grew up in a Protestant household in the State of Maine and after recovering from serious lung disease, did not smoke or drink alcohol, but this was an after dinner activity that was important to most men at the time. Billiards, however, is one of Stanley's most cherished hobbies.
The layout is also determined by the air circulation. The window at the top of the large staircase provides a pleasant breeze across from the lobby, French doors in an open country room onto shaded verandahs and two curved staircases connecting guest corridors preventing stagnant air upstairs. Although the hotel was finally updated with central heating in 1983, guests still relied on the Rocky Mountain wind for cooling in the summer. Also completed in 1983, the hotel service tunnel connects the basement level to the staff entrance. It was cut straight through the granite where the hotel was sitting.
Concert Hall
The concert hall, east of the hotel, was built by Stanley in 1909 with the help of Henry "Lord Cornwallis" Rogers, the same architect who designed his summer cottage. According to popular legend, it was built as a reward for Flora Stanley who is an avid pianist despite her failing vision. The interior is decorated in the same way as a smaller musical room and somewhat similar to Boston Symphony Hall (McKim, Mead & White, 1900) used by Stanleys. The stage has a trap door, which is used for the entrance and exit of the theater. The lower level was once a bowling alley. This feature has long disappeared but may resemble the one at Stanley's Hunnewell Club in Newton, an image archived at Newton's Free Library. The hall underwent extensive renovations and renovations in the 2000s.
The Lodge
Once called Stanley Manor, the smaller hotel between the main structure and the concert hall is a 2: 3 version that is scaled down from the main hotel. Unlike its model, the manor was fully heated from its finish in 1910 which could indicate that Stanley plans to use it as a winter resort when the main building is closed for the season. However, unlike many other Colorado mountain towns that are now famous for their winter sports, Estes Park never attracts visitors off-season on Stanley day and his manor remains empty for most of the year. Today it is called The Lodge and serves as a bed-and-breakfast forbidden to the public.
Hedge Maze
In 2015, the open area in front of the hotel, originally an entrance to Stanley Steamers and a pedestrian area for guests to enjoy mountain views, replaced with a hedge maze. This non-historic feature was added to generate hotel connections to The Shining . Although the labyrinth has a prominent feature in Stanley Kubrick's version of The Shining , no such feature can be found in Stephen King's novel. The pages of the Overlook Hotel, as imagined King, were decorated with topiary animals and arranged like that for the shooting of miniseries in 1996. Historically, there were no features at Stanley. The design is the result of a competition, selected from 300 entrants from around the world. The winning submission was designed by the New York architect, Mairim Dallaryan Standing.
In 2016, John Cullen, owner of Stanley Hotel, announces a competition for the statue to become the centerpiece of the terrace in front of the hotel. Sculptor Sutton Betti and Daniel Glanz won the competition with a statue of F.O. Stanley holds one of his violins. The statue was installed and dedicated on September 29, 2016. Another hotel was used to film the outer shooting, and Stanley for shooting inside.
The Shining
On October 30, 1974, horror writer Stephen King and his wife Tabitha spent one night at the Stanley Hotel for a year of their residency in Boulder, Colorado. They drove past Estes Park the night before when they happened at Hotel Stanley. They decided to book a room and, upon checking in, discovered that they were the only guests staying the night. "They were just getting ready to close this season, and we found ourselves the only guests in the place - with all those long and empty corridors." He and his wife were served dinner in an empty dining room accompanied by canned orchestra music. "Except for our table all the chairs are on the table, so the music echoes in the hall, and, I mean, it's like God has put me there to hear that and see those things." That night, according to King, "I envisioned my three-year-old son running through the corridor, looking back to back, wide eyes, screaming.He was chased by a fire hose.I awoke wondrously, jerked, sweating all over, in an inch falling out of bed.I got up, lit a cigarette, sat in a chair looking out the window at the Rockies, and by the time the cigarette was done, I had the Shining bone embedded in my mind. "
The Shining was published in 1977 and became the third major success of the King's career after Carrie and 'Lot Salem . The Overlook Hotel - a fictional hotel in Stanley's inspired book - is an evil entity haunted by many of its victims. Room 217 of Overlook stands out in this novel, which has become the space where the King spends the night at Stanley. This is a room on the second floor in the middle of the west wing with a balcony overlooking the south terrace. Room 217 remains the most requested hotel accommodation.
Movie location and art venue
In 1980, The Shining became the basis for the film adaptation directed by Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick's vision for film differs from King's significantly in many ways, including the depiction of the Overlook Hotel. Kubrick's Overlook exterior is supplied by Timberline Lodge on the slopes of Mount. Hood in Oregon. The inspiration for the interior set (founded at Elstree Studios in England) comes from the 1927 Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park. The Timberline Lodge management, afraid guests will refuse to stay in their room 217 if shown in a horror movie, insists that Kubrick change the haunted space in the movie to Room 237.
In 1997 The Shining TV series was produced, with Stanley Hotel as the main filming location. Home versions of the main building that adorn the Overlook Hotel page in this series can be seen in Stanley's basement.
The hotel has also been used as a filming location for movies and other TV shows; especially, as the fictional "Hotel Danbury" from Aspen, CO, in the 1994 film Dumb and Dumber.
From 2013 to 2015, the hotel property hosts the Stanley Film Festival, an independent horror film festival operated by the Denver Film Society, held in early May. The festival features screenings, panels, student competitions, awards and audience receptions. The Stanley Film Festival underwent a hiatus in 2016, and was canceled for 2017.
The historic Stanley Concert Hall serves as a venue for various musical groups such as country-punk band Murder By Death who has performed a series of concerts themed in space.
Bravo's cooking competition, Top Chef, also uses Stanley as the venue for Episode 10 of Season 15, all of which takes place in various locations in Colorado.
Haunted reputation
Despite its peaceful early history, in the years after The Shining's publication, The Stanley Hotel has gained a reputation among paranormal researchers for frequent activities. The hotel offers "Ghost Tours" guided to guests and visitors featuring spaces that are known to be very active. The hotel also serves as the location for a number of paranormal investigative events such as Ghost Hunter and Ghost Adventure .
Famous guest
The Stanley Hotel has hosted for the following people a note:
- 1934 - Erich Fromm, German psychoanalyst
- 1936 - Governor Alf Landon (R, Kansas): Opponents of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's re-election
- 1974 - Stephen King, inspired writer for writing The Shining from his stay in room 217
- 1976 - Bob Dylan & amp; Joan Baez, the classic rock icon during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour
- 1994 - HM Emperor Akihito from Japan, Empress Michiko and Crown Prince Naruhito, on state visit to the US
- 1994 - Stupid and Stupid cast and crew including Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels for "Danbury Hotel" location
- 1996 - The Shining (miniseries) players and crew including Rebecca De Mornay and Steven Weber
Historical ownership
- 1908-26 - Stanley Freelan Oscars
- 1926-29 - Stanley Company
- 1929-30 - Stanley Freelan Oscar
- 1930-1946 - Roe Emery
- 1946-1966 - Abbell Management Company (later Abbell Hotel Company), run by Maxwell Abbell, Chicago real estate investor
- Ã,? -1969 - Stanley Properties, Inc., led by Maurice L. Albertson, civil engineer at CSU
- 1969-? - Richard R. Holechek, Charles F. Hanson, and Carol Hanson Pick from Riverside and Palm Springs, California
- 1995-present - Grand Heritage Hotel Group
See also
- The Shining (novel)
- The Shining (movie)
- The Shining (miniseries)
- Architecture of the Colonial Awakening
- List of Historic Historic Places of Interest in Larimer County, Colorado
References
External links
- Official Site
- List of Nominations List of National Stanley Hotels
- The Colorado Experience: The Stanley Hotel by Rocky Mountain PBS
Source of the article : Wikipedia
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