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Orndorff Hotel, Tucson, AZ
Marilyn, from facebook, sent me this message and gave me permission to repost it here. Thought some may be interested...
"Shortly after the train came to Tucson in 1880 (about) the first real hotel was built to serve travelers. It was the Orndorff Hotel. Two stories with screened in sleeping porches. In the 1930's the building was purchased by the city and was used as the Police Dept. annex. My father worked there. In the attic they stored a large amount of the original furnishings. My father bought a round oak table and six chairs from the city. We used them all through my childhood. ..." Best, Marilyn Anne McNeill Pate
Her website: http://www.marilynannepate.com/
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Permalink Reply by J Orendorff on
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http://www.epesrandolphlodge32.org/History.html
More history on the building. There is a postcard image out there somewhere....
"The Orndorff Hotel began business as the Phillips House in 1856, a newly built one-story rambling adobe at Main Avenue and Pennington (where the current City Hall now stands). It incorporated a portion of the Old Presidio wall....."The Tucson City hall sits on the location today.
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Permalink Reply by Andrea Orenduff-Peel on
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Didn't know there was one in Arizona - I know of the Orndorff Hotel in El Paso, Texas....she have any idea who owned it?
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Oh, maybe it is the El Paso Hotel that I have seen a postcard image of.....very interesting. I wonder if they were owned by the same people?
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